The Camera (Fürth)

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The Camera , 2014

The camera was a cinema in Fürth . The building, which was later used as a music club and office building, is located at Schwabacher Strasse 149 in the southern part of Fürth.

history

The Die Camera cinema, operated by Grete Leis and Kurt Knösel, opened in 1951. Despite its modern facade designed with columns of light, the theater was called "The Intimate Theater". The imposing building from the post-war period was incorrectly mentioned in the 1998 book Bauen unterm Hakenkreuz . The auditorium had 482 semi-upholstered seats from Kamlöhner in Bielefeld and air conditioning from Geluna in Munich . The demonstration technology consisted of two Ernemann projectors VII b and a Uniphon sound system. In 1954 it was upgraded to the Cinemascope format with a 3.5 × 9.5 screen curved by 0.6 meters . The house was for all then current widescreen process (to 2.55: 1) and 1 channel - optical sound and 4-channel magnetic sound set (COMMAG). After the successful 1950s, the suburban cinema lost more and more viewers in the course of the cinema crisis , so that from 1964 it was also used as an event venue and disco . The cinema was closed on May 31, 1965.

With numerous appearances by bands such as The Lords , The Boots and The Who , Die Camera soon became known nationwide as the “second largest beat club after the Hamburg Star Club ”.

"Up until then we had always thought we lived in the deepest provinces, and suddenly we could see and hear our favorite bands in person on stage."

- Klaus Braun-Hessing, drummer
Lettering, 2014

The music club also closed in 1970. From then on, the premises were used as a supermarket and fashion store, among other things. On March 3, 2014, several bands that once performed in the Camera gave an anniversary concert in the Fürth town hall.

In April 2018, the demolition work began on the building that was most recently vacant. All attempts to put the building under a preservation order had failed beforehand. The distinctive lettering on the outer facade could be saved and should if necessary. be attached again to the new facade.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Weihsmann: Building under the swastika . Architecture of doom. Promedia Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85371-113-8 .
  2. ↑ Bernd Noack: The cinema is dying. In: Fürth News . April 12, 2011 ( nordbayern.de ).
  3. ↑ a b Steffen Radlmaier: In the sound of the good old days . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . February 15, 2014 ( nordbayern.de ).
  4. ↑ Reinhard Kalb: With the museum train through the sixties . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . March 5, 2014 ( nordbayern.de ).
  5. ↑ Volker Dittmar: The camera sinks into the rubble. In: Fürther Nachrichten of April 10, 2018 (print edition) or New Apartments: Fürth Cinema "Camera" sinks into the rubble. In: nordbayern.de from April 10, 2018 - available online

literature

  • Jürgen Wolff (Ed.): From the cinematograph to the CineCittá . History and stories of the cinemas in Nuremberg, Fürth and Erlangen. Koberger & Kompany Verlag, Nuremberg 1995 (254 pages).
  • Gerd Walther: Fürth cinemas in the twentieth century . Städtebilder Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-927347-46-9 .

Web links

Commons : The camera  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '48.3 "  N , 10 ° 59' 11.4"  E