Gloria (Saarbrücken)

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The Gloria is a cinema building built in 1931 in the Saarland capital Saarbrücken on the corner of Trierer Straße and St. Johanner Strasse. From 1931 to 1984 it housed the Gloria-Filmpalast, at times the largest cinema in the city. Since 1985 changing tenants have been running a large discotheque in it .

history

Gloria Film Palace

In Saarbrücken, which is under the administration of the League of Nations , the Gloria-Filmpalast was built at Trierer Strasse 42 in the early 1930s . When it opened in 1931 , it was the fourth cinema in Saarbrücken, alongside the Kammerlichtspiel , the Tivoli and the Union Theater (from 1935 to 1944: UFA-Filmpalast ). The operator was Gloria-Lichtspiele GmbH . After the annexation to the German Reich in 1935 , the cinema business boomed and the number of Saarbrücken cinemas rose to a total of nine with a total of 5130 seats by 1938. Due to the destruction by Allied bombing, probably on October 5, 1944, and the evacuation of the city, the cinema was abandoned shortly before the end of World War II .

After American troops marched into Saarbrücken, which was almost deserted, all cinemas had to be closed from March 1945. With the handover of the Saarland to the French occupying power, they were placed under administration (Administrateur-Séquestre) by decree of December 30, 1946 . Sequester administrator was Max Bernheim. Owners and cinema operators had to cease their business pending approval from the French military administration.

After the reconstruction by the Saarlouis film salesman Ernst Gill (including Theater am Ring), the Gloria was back in operation in 1951. Further modernizations as well as the equipment with cinemascope and hi-fi multi-channel sound then followed in 1956. On the occasion of the reopening of the Gloria-Filmpalast in 1956, Liselotte Pulver and the director Kurt Hoffmann were present at the screening of their current film Today my husband is getting married . In the early 1960s, Ernst Gill transferred the Gloria to the Saarfilm-Union (Saarfilm GmbH) . The Gloria had the largest cinema in the city and, after the Wartburg light show closed in 1952, it had the largest number of visitors with its 1,050 seats. It was constantly equipped with modern technology, such as a Bauer U 2 projector for 70 mm film (1962) or a Sensurround sound system (1974), and Todd-AO films could only be seen in Saarbrücken in the Gloria Palast. The operator was the Saarfilm-Union. The cinema then had to close in 1984.

Discos

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In December 1985, the Gloria Palast disco was opened in the empty cinema complex . Resident DJ Kasimir established a music mix of independent , new wave , early hip-hop and electro . Concerts were sometimes held on weekdays. In 1986 the Max Ophüls Prize was awarded here. Up to 3000 visitors were counted per opening day. The first major techno parties in Saarbrücken took place in the Gloria in the early 1990s .

X-Dream

After a change of ownership of the building and a renovation, the discotheque X-Dream opened in 1994 . The concept only lasted two years.

N8werk

In 1996 the large-capacity disco N8werk opened . The address was now St. Johanner Str. 38. The operator was CASS Diskotheken Betriebs GmbH , founded on July 12, 1994 with Alexander Cron as managing director. He established a theme party concept, mostly for younger adults. In addition to theme parties such as Geiz ist Geil , Hard'n'Heavy , Mallorca N8 , foam parties or live performances by pop and mood singers such as Mickie Krause were organized. In 2004 Alexander Cron left the company. From 2012 Mike Henning took over the management. The attempt to reach older clubbers also failed. In July 2016, he had to file for bankruptcy with five-digit liabilities and close the company.

Gloria Stages

On November 30, 2016, Samy Acar and Alfonso Puccio alias "DJ Fonz" founded a company that, after renovations in the Gloria, opened the new Gloria Stages discotheque on March 12, 2017 . As a concept for the operation, they developed a mixture of electronic dance music on the weekends as well as concerts, comedy and theater events or readings in the rest of the time. In March 2018, the operating company of the discotheque went bankrupt .

ego

The new Club Ego opened on November 22, 2019 . The managing director is the restaurateur Hafzullah Atca from Wadgassen , who became known in Saarbrücken with his Havsis Lounge .

Architecture and urban significance

The Gloria-Filmpalast was built in the early 1930s as a seven-storey functional building with a flat roof in the New Building style. It consists of two V-shaped building structures that enclose a central hall building on three sides. The building is free-standing. Pictures from the 1950s show a clad brick building with a curtain wall . The short front with the main entrance is emphasized vertically by means of an attached glass rotunda . The pages were initially structured horizontally with banded window elements. Today they show a perforated facade. The exposed location was taken into account by a special design of the front side. The Gloria is an acute-angled corner building between Tierer Strasse and St-Johanner Strasse and, as the head of a square, is the end of a line of sight . In the course of various renovations, conversions and modernizations over the years, the original design was partially lost.

During the reconstruction of Saarbrücken, which was largely destroyed in the war, at the beginning of the 1950s, the building was part of the reorganization of Saarbrücken Central Station developed by City Planning Officer Karl Cartal . The unrealized plans by Georges-Henri Pingusson from 1946 called for demolition. The property also plays a role in a development concept for the state capital of Saarbrücken from 2011 .

When it was converted into a discotheque in 1984, the room concept of the old cinema architecture was adopted. The dance floor was laid out in the area where the seating parquet used to be. Due to the rising floors for the old seating and the gallery , the spatial effect of an amphitheater was created . In the early years, the DJ technology was housed in one of the demonstration rooms that were no longer in use, so that the guests could not speak to the disc jockey who was playing.

Trivia

  • Since the end of the 1990s, “DJ Kasimir” has been organizing “Gloria Revival Parties”, which previously took place in the N8werk and then in Club Number One .
  • Peter Cornely aka " DJ Karotte " began his career at the Gloria Palast.
  • In 2016, the exhibition “Saarbrücken in a different light” showed night shots of Saarbrücken streets by the photographer Jörg Karrenbauer. The motif below is the Gloria building.
  • In a 2016 survey by Saarländischer Rundfunk , which clubs you absolutely have to visit in Saarbrücken today, the Gloria Palast was among the top ten, although it has not existed for over 20 years.
  • At the film festival Max Ophüls Prize number 37, the traditional festival club “Lolas Bistro” 2016 was in the Gloria.
  • The managing director of the Gloria Stage Alfonso Puccio previously managed the Saarbrücken Club No1 together with Alexander Cron, who was in charge of the N8werk in the early years.

Web links

  • Plan Karl Cartal, reorganization of Saarbrücken central station

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Saarland cinemas , section GLORIA-Palast . On April 24, 2017 from saar-nostalgie.de, accessed on May 11, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e Rainer Freyer: Saar Nostalgia (Volume 1) . Geistkirch Verlag , 2014, ISBN 978-3-938889-07-7 ( saar-nostalgie.de ).
  3. ^ Hartwig Beseler, Niels Gutschow: War fates of German architecture, losses - damage - reconstruction, a documentation for the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany (volume 2, south) . Karl Wachholtz Verlag, 1988, ISBN 978-3-529-02685-0 , p. 1059-1077 .
  4. ↑ a b c d From "Hour O" to "Day X": Saarland 1945-1959: Catalog for the exhibition of the Regional History Museum in Saarbrücken Castle . Merziger, Saarbrücken 1990, ISBN 3-923754-10-8 , pp. 386 ff., 391 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Saarland cinemas , section Wartburg-Lichtspiele . On April 24, 2017 from saar-nostalgie.de, accessed on May 11, 2017
  6. ↑ a b c d The three lives of Gloria . In: L! VE . March 2017, February 9, 2016, ISSN  0944-453X , p. 20/21 .
  7. ↑ Helmut Schödel: The winner: A winner . On January 31, 1986 in Die Zeit ( online at zeit.de , accessed on May 11, 2017)
  8. ^ A b Nicole Burkhardt: Film fans are now chatting elsewhere. Saarbrücker Zeitung, January 14, 2016, accessed on April 15, 2017 .
  9. ↑ a b c Marija Herceg: Disco nostalgia with the "We-are-Gloria-Feeling". In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . saarbruecker-zeitung.de, December 16, 2010, accessed on April 15, 2017 .
  10. ↑ a b Rainer Freyer: Saar Nostalgia (Volume 2) . Geistkirch Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-946036-45-6 , p. 35 ff . ( saar-nostalgie.de ).
  11. ↑ a b Ralph Stanger: Finally shine again in the Gloria! In: image. March 9, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2017 .
  12. ^ CASS Diskotheken Betriebs GmbH. In: company database. Moneyhouse , accessed April 14, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Thorsten Kremers: Saarbrücken cult disco “N8werk” broke! In: image . July 15, 2016. Retrieved April 14, 2017 .
  14. ^ Gloria Stages GmbH. In: company database. Moneyhouse , accessed April 14, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Thorsten Kremers: Shine and dance thanks to "Gloria". In: image. March 12, 2017. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Disco Gloria is insolvent at saarbruecker-zeitung.de
  17. ^ New discotheque in Saarbrücken at sol.de.
  18. ↑ Claudia Maas, Oranna Dimmig: 100 years of urban planning in Saarbrücken - a story with breaks. In: Saar Art Lexicon. Institute for Current Art in Saarland at the Saar College of Fine Arts , September 29, 2011, accessed on April 14, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Michael Argast, Arno Deubel: Urban development concept for the state capital Saarbrücken . Ed .: State capital Saarbrücken, Building Department. December 6, 2011, p. 10 ( saarbruecken.de ).
  20. ↑ Marija Herceg: The specialist for night music. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. December 21, 2010, accessed April 15, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Saarbrücken in a completely different way . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . April 25, 2016 ( pressreader.com ).
  22. ↑ Clubzone February 2016. live-magazin.de, February 9, 2016 filed by the original on March 16, 2016 ; accessed on May 11, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Nadja Spieldenner: Lola goes to the dance floor: Ophüls Festival Club is in the disco in the former Gloria cinema for the first time. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. January 19, 2016, accessed April 15, 2017 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 25.8 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 5.4 ″  E