Dierck's Hansa cinematograph
Dierck's Hansa-Kinematograph was the first cinema in Lübeck .
Situation before 1906
From 1896, when the city's first film screening took place in the Deutscher Kaiser restaurant at Königstraße 41 on October 11 , until the spring of 1906, the cinema in Lübeck was exclusively a matter for traveling cinema entrepreneurs , who mostly held their performances in restaurants , and for showmen , who set up their mobile cinemas as attractions at events such as the Lübeck People's and Remembrance Festival.
Lübeck's first cinema
On April 2, 1906, the Hamburg showman Heinrich Diercks applied from the Lübeck police office for permission to operate a permanent cinema in the rooms of the former Hansa department store at Breiten Strasse 51. The permit was granted two days later, and on Easter Sunday , April 15 , the theater of living photographs , initially without a proper name, opened with the first performance. A preserved police memo noted that the cinema had 473 seats.
Since the performances began at 12 noon on Sundays and at 3 p.m. on weekdays and only ended during the night, complaints from the residents soon increased, who felt just as disturbed by the constant coming and going of the cinema-goers as they were by the electric piano with which the performances were accompanied by music.
Until the autumn of 1906, Dierck's Hansa-Kinematograph was the only fixed cinema in Lübeck to be unrivaled. From October of that year, however, the situation changed, as the Tonhalle opened in quick succession, first on September 30th , then the Bioscope on November 15th and finally the Metropol on December 29th . Dierks felt compelled to stand out from the new competition. In his newspaper advertisements he now emphasized that his movie theater was the first and largest company in place and could offer daily news . At the beginning of 1907, Diercks gave his cinema, which was the only movie theater in Lübeck that had initially managed without a proper name, the name Diercks Hansa-Kinematograph .
In summer 1907 Diercks closed the cinema and left Lübeck again. The exact reason for the discontinuation is unclear; According to newspaper reports, the noticeable competitive pressure was offset by good visitor numbers and the general popularity of the Hansa Kinematograph. It is also no longer possible to say whether there was a connection with the change in ownership of the house at Breite Straße 51, which took place at the time.
See also
literature
- Petra Schaper: Cinemas in Lübeck . Verlag Graphische Werkstätten GmbH, Lübeck 1987. ISBN 3-925402-35-7