Capitol (Jena)
The Capitol is a listed building and former cinema in Jena in Thuringia .
history
The Capitol was built in the 1920s in Art Deco style based on a design by the architecture firm Schreiter & Schlag , founded in Jena in 1919 . The Capitol was inaugurated on April 2, 1927. Equipped with 1200 red armchairs, it offered space for cinema, theater and variety shows . When it opened, the Capitol was the largest cinema in Thuringia.
After the end of the Second World War , the Soviet occupying power seized the Capitol and used it from then on as the headquarters of the Red Army . Only years later, the film operation began again, first under Soviet participation, giving the movie the nickname Russians movie earned.
In 1982 the house was closed due to construction defects and rebuilt in 1984. The building was gutted down to the outer walls and a second basement was created. Since the renovation, the cinema has had three cinema halls, in addition to the large hall there was a studio cinema for high-quality film productions and a club cinema especially for children's films. In 1987 the DEFA children's film Der Schwur von Rabenhorst premiered in the Capitol.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the Filmtheaterbetrieb Jena GmbH, based in Bochum, took over the Capitol. A fourth and fifth cinema room were created through a further renovation. In February 2009 the Capitol finally closed as a cinema.
Starting in 2010, the building was renovated in a 17-month construction period in accordance with the preservation of original findings for 6.5 million euros and has since been used as a residential and commercial building with 14 apartments.
literature
- Lioba Knipping: Jena's Capitol renovated with great effort. Open on Monument Day. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung from August 25, 2012 ( online at eisenach.tlz.de , last accessed on January 4, 2020)
Web links
- History of Capitol Jena on jenaonline.de (entire domain offline on January 4, 2020)
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 36.5 ″ N , 11 ° 35 ′ 19.9 ″ E