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Ernst Huhn (* 1894 ; † 1964 ) was a German architect .

Life

For a long time, Huhn was one of the close collaborators of the architect Wilhelm Kreis in his Düsseldorf years (1908–1926). From the end of the 1920s, Huhn emerged as an architect for cinemas , theaters and restaurants , especially in the Rhineland . He worked in Düsseldorf and was a member of the Association of German Architects . He reported on some of his buildings in the trade journal Bühnentechnische Rundschau .

Buildings (selection)

Schauspielhaus Bad Godesberg, photo 2010

Residential and commercial building with cinema, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 30–32 in Cologne, photo 2011

• 1926: Ice pavilion at the GeSoLei exhibition in Düsseldorf
• 1928: “Odeon” cinema to convert a dance hall in Düsseldorf- Unterbilk
• 1928: "Nationaltheater" cinema as a conversion of the restaurant hall "Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle" in Viersen , Heierstrasse 2
• 1935: "Apollo Theater" cinema in Siegen
• 1936: “Capitol” cinema in Bielefeld , Bahnhofstrasse
• 1936: Renovation of the Hotel Fürstenhof in Cologne
• 1949: Refurbishment of the "Europa-Palast" cinema in Düsseldorf, Graf-Adolf-Straße (location of the Arabian Café until 1928 )
• 1949: Reconstruction of the Ufa cinema “Modernes Theater” in Wuppertal
• 1950: Reconstruction of the Apollo Theater in Düsseldorf (with over 3000 seats)
• 1951: Reconstruction of the "Viktoria-Theater" cinema in Hagen , Körnerstraße 4
• 1951–1952: Stadttheater Bad Godesberg , Germany's first new theater after the Second World War
• 1953: Cinema at the Aegidientor in Hanover (together with Hans Klüppelberg and Gerd Lichtenhahn )
• 1954: Remscheid City Theater
• 1954: "Atlantis-Palast" cinema in Duisburg - Marxloh , Weseler Straße 66
• 1954–1956: Düsseldorf Opera House (together with Julius Schulte-Frohlinde and Paul Bonatz )
• 1955: Ufa-Palast cinema in Cologne, Hohenstaufenring
• 1960: Residential and commercial building with a cinema in Cologne, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 30–32
• until 1963: Studio house of the Rosenthal company in Düsseldorf, Königsallee / Graf-Adolf-Straße (together with Günter Huhn)

literature

• Sabine Steidle: Cinema architecture under National Socialism. A cultural and media historical study on the diversity of modernity . Kliomedia, Trier 2012, ISBN 978-3-8989-0167-3 , pp. 118, 200 f., 226 f.

Web links

• Huhn, Ernst , data sheet in the portal nrw-architekturdatenbank.tu-dortmund.de (architecture database of the Technical University of Dortmund )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Winfried Nerdinger , Ekkehard May : Wilhelm circle. Architect between empire and democracy. 1873-1955 . Klinkhardt + Biermann, Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3-7814-0349-9 , p. 190
2. ^ Wilhelm Kreis , Robert Meyer, Richard Klapheck : Document German Art, Düsseldorf 1926. Enclosure, buildings and interior design of the Gesolei, large exhibition Düsseldorf 1926 for health care, social welfare and physical exercises . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1927, p. 132 (Figure 169).
3. ↑ Odeon , website in the allekinos.com portal , accessed on May 1, 2019
4. ↑ Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle, later National Theater (cinema) , monument data sheet in the portal viersen.de , accessed on May 1, 2019
5. ↑ The history of the Apollo cinema , website in the portal apollosiegen.de , accessed on May 1, 2019
6. ↑ Knut Lohmann: Apollo - many dreams became reality , article from December 17, 2010 in the wr.de portal (Westfälische Rundschau), accessed on May 1, 2019
7. ↑ Capitol , website in the allekinos.com portal , accessed on May 1, 2019
8. ↑ Moderne Baufformen, monthly books for architecture and spatial art , 37th year 1938, issue 11 (from November 1938).
9. ↑ Europa-Palast , website in the allekinos.com portal , accessed on May 1, 2019
10. ↑ Modernes Theater , website in the allekinos.com portal , accessed on May 1, 2019
11. ↑ Cheap and dark . In: Der Spiegel from April 8, 1953 ( online )
12. ↑ Irmgard Wolf: Vom Feldherrnhügel zur Pedestrian Zone , article from December 28, 2003 in the portal general-anzeiger-bonn.de (General-Anzeiger Bonn), accessed on May 1, 2019
13. ↑ Frank Schmitz: The fear of the national theater. The Bonn Theater (1962–1965) as a medium of state self-expression . In: Architektur Stadt Raum , issue 1/2017, p. 1. ( PDF )
14. ^ Alois Giefer , Franz Sales Meyer , Joachim Beinlich: Planning and building in the new Germany . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1960, p. 259. ( limited preview of a reprint on Google Books )
15. ^ Rudolf Stegers: Hermann Herrey. Work and life. 1904-1968 . Birkhäuser, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-0356-1323-0 , p. 248. ( limited preview on Google Books )
16. ^ Ufa-Palast Hohenstaufenring, Cologne , photo by Karl Hugo Schmölz , 1955, image in the portal klauskleinschmidt.de , accessed on May 1, 2019
17. ^ Rosenthal studio house in Düsseldorf . In: Bauen und Wohnen , Volume 18, 1963, Issue 11, pp. 484–488.
18. ↑ Rosenthal Studio B . In: Bauwelt , issue 8/1964