Hanns-Peter Hüster

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Hanns-Peter Hüster (* 1935 in Augsburg ; † March 10, 2020 in Essen ) was a German cinema operator . Together with his wife Marianne Menze , he ran several cinemas in Essen, including the Lichtburg and the Glückauf film studio .

Life

Hüster was born in Augsburg in 1935, but grew up partly with his grandmother in Naumburg an der Saale during the Second World War . After the end of the war the family was reunited in Essen, where Hüster's father was the manager of a department store. Hanns-Peter Hüster's passion for cinema was awakened by a screening of the feature film The Jungle Book , with the Indian actor Sabu in the role of Mowgli . In the air raid shelter of the family house, he set up his first “cinema” in which he showed films for children in the neighborhood. After his father gave him a 16 mm camera, Hüster made his own short films.

He later trained as a telecommunications technician at Siemens & Halske . With the support of his father, he was temporarily employed in the cinema technology department and supported the conversion of some cinemas to Cinemascope . He then worked as a cameraman at WDR .

Cinema advertisement (1969), Cinema 66 in the youth center, two films by Hüster

In 1962 he took over the Filmforum studio in Essen-Frillendorf . From 1964 to 1970 he was employed by the city for the cinema program in the youth center in Holsterhausen . He then took over an art gallery from a couple he was friends with, which he converted into the Kino Galerie Cinema after an unsuccessful attempt as an art dealer . In the absence of attractive film copies, Hüster initially primarily served a niche audience with his small arthouse cinema. From 1973 he showed the film Harold and Maude there every Sunday .

At a screening of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 film : A Space Odyssey , he met his future wife Marianne Menze .

With their work, Hüster and his wife saved both the Glückauf film studio , the oldest film theater in the Ruhr area, and the Lichtburg from the threat of closure.

Award

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Gerrit Stratmann: A life for the cinema: Hanns-Peter Hüster and the Essen film theater companies . In: Deutschlandfunkkultur.de from February 20, 2012.
  2. ↑ Dagmar Schwalm: Essen's major cinema operator Hanns-Peter Hüster is dead. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . March 13, 2020, accessed March 13, 2020 . (Subscription required)
  3. ↑ a b c Dagmar Schwalm: Lichtburg - Essen film art theaters celebrate 50th anniversary . In: WAZ.de from January 6, 2012.
  4. ↑ Martina Schürmann: Award for Marianne Menze: Fighter for the art of cinema . In: wp.de, from April 15, 2014.
  5. ^ Marianne Menze: from the classroom to the cinema . In: DerWesten.de of September 27, 2013.
  6. ↑ Marianne Menze and Hanns-Peter Hüster receive the Federal Cross of Merit . In: filmstiftung.de from February 4, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Hüster, Hanns-Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huester, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cinema operator
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Augsburg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2020
Place of death eat