Gabriel movie theater
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 35.9 ″ N , 11 ° 33 ′ 36.9 ″ E
The Gabriel Filmtheater was a cinema in Munich that was one of the oldest film theaters in the world. It was located at Dachauer Strasse 16 in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich .
history
On February 16, 1907, Karl "Carl" Gabriel (* September 24, 1857) applied for the conversion of a restaurant in what was then the residential and commercial building at Dachauer Strasse 16 into a demonstration site for "living photography". Gabriel and his partner Emil Hammer had been running a panopticon in Munich since 1894 , where they also presented "living pictures" from 1896. On April 21, 1907, The American Bio-Cie. "Carl Gabriels Theater of Living Pictures" opens.
Until his death on February 24, 1931, the cinema was run by Gabriel himself. His executor leased it from 1932 to the cinema entrepreneur Josef Kügle. On November 21, 1936, the property was sold to the operators of Roseneck Lichtspiele in Ingolstadt (opened November 20, 1926) Ludwig and Franziska Büche, who also took over the cinema with their son Hans Büche (* 1902 † 1975). The Büches led the cinema, which again operated as Gabriel Filmtheater , into the fourth generation.
Due to the difficult economic situation for cinemas, the family decided to sell the house. The Gabriel Filmtheater closed in April 2019.
Furnishing
The cinema (originally with a balcony, divided into cinema 2 in 1976) was built in 1955/56, the last complete renovation took place in 1994.
“Cinema 1” on the ground floor had 208 seats, the screen was 48 m² in size. The hall was equipped with two 35 mm film projectors and several high-performance projectors, the Dolby Digital Surround EX sound system had an output of 4,200 watts.
The "Kino 2" on the upper floor had 63 seats. With an image format of 1: 2.35 ( Cinemascope ) the image size was 21 m². It was equipped with 35 mm film projectors and a high-performance projector, and the Dolby Digital sound system had an output of 1,200 watts.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Dagmar Müller: The oldest cinema in the world. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Online. Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien GmbH, May 17, 2010, accessed on April 22, 2019 .
- ↑ https://gabriel-filmtheater.de/kino/tree/node1826/city102
- ^ Dunja Bialas: RIP Gabriel. In: artechock. Artechock eV, April 18, 2019, accessed on April 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Jasmin Menrad: Exclusive: After 113 years - The Gabriel Kino closes! In: Abendzeitung Online. Abendzeitung München, January 30, 2019, accessed on April 22, 2019 .