Docks

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Docks

The Docks , formerly known as the D-Club , is an event and cultural center in Hamburg . It is located in the St. Pauli district directly on Spielbudenplatz . With a capacity of 1,250 to 1,500 visitors, it is the largest of Hamburg's music clubs. The building was once home to Knopf's movie theater , which is often referred to as the oldest stationary cinema in Germany. Concerts and events also take place in the connected Prinzenbar .

history

After Eberhard Knopf had already run “Eberhard Knopfs Konzert und Automatenhaus” at Spielbudenplatz 21 before 1900 and had shown curiosities such as “Australia's wonders of the world” and the “greatest man in the world”, he presented his audience with the “living moving picture” on February 20, 1900 “, Several 25–30 meter long films. There was already a cinema in a Kobero & Co shop nearby. Knopf acquired this facility, began showing longer films - in 1902 a film adaptation of Robinson Crusoe - and, due to increasing success, opened a movie theater with 667 in an extension to the old button at 19 Spielbudenplatz, where the building is still located today Places. Rebuilt and enlarged in 1922, it survived the bombings of World War II largely unscathed.

On July 27, 1945, it was one of those movie theaters that could be reopened to the civilian population. From 1930 to 1950 around eleven million people visited the cinema. In 1965 it was converted into the sex film theater "Eros-Cine-Center", in 1974 it was converted into a Hollywood cinema or vaudeville in nostalgic style. Since the latter was unsuccessful, it was converted into “Knopf's Music Hall”, which on September 14, 1988 became the discotheque and the Docks music club. Numerous well-known artists appeared there in the approximately 25 years of existence. In 1997 Metallica played there and called the Docks the "damn best club in the world". Other artists were (selection): David Bowie with Tin Machine , the Red Hot Chili Peppers , Iggy Pop , Peter Maffay , Die Ärzte , Black Sabbath , Public Enemy , Nelly Furtado , Roxette , the Ramones , Tom Petty and Blondie .

At the end of the 1990s, the club was given the subtitle D-Club and affixed to the outside so that it can be seen - nevertheless, the club is widely known as Docks and officially operates as such. From around 2008 there were discussions about the future of the dock. Plans and a. of the operator of the neighboring St. Pauli Theater and Schmidt Theater , Norbert Aust, provided for the demolition and construction of another revue theater at this point. In the course of this, Aust referred to the dock as a "ruin". Dock operator Amir Ahmadi protested against these plans.

In 2010 there was a change of operator. Since then, the company “MTM more than music! Event GmbH "under the management of Susanne Leonhardt is responsible for the operation.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.hlk.me: Docks ( Memento from June 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c Where Courtney Love and Kim Gordon beat the guitars . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . October 7, 2008.
  3. ↑ a b c www.filmmuseum-hamburg.de
  4. ↑ Docks: The locks are open . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . September 15, 1988.
  5. ↑ Violent dispute about the docks: rabble in front of the TV camera . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . October 10, 2008. (fee required)
  6. ↑ Company data , Northdata, accessed September 22, 2018.

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Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 57.3 "  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 52.3"  E