Heribert Schlinker

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The Cineplex cinema in Warburg, built in 1998
The former Gasthaus Bremer, 1917–1982 location of the first Warburg cinema "Stern-Lichtspiele"

Heribert Schlinker (* 1936 in Siegen ) is a German cinema operator and local politician .

Life

Origin and family

Heribert Schlinker's grandfather, August Schlinker, was originally a hotelier and has traveled around Europe in this capacity. Before the First World War, he founded the region's first film theater in Annaburg , Torgau district . In 1926 he moved with his family to Warburg and took over the “Warburger Lichtspiele” founded there in 1917 by Bernhardt Disselmann . The cinema was located in the former social hall of the Bremer inn operated in a late medieval half-timbered house in what was then Kirchstrasse 11 and had around 250 seats. The entrance was on Sternstrasse, which is why the cinema was later called Stern-Lichtspiele . His father Rudolf Schlinker graduated from high school in Marianum in 1928 , then studied dentistry, received his doctorate and then worked a. a. as a school doctor. The family was friends with the resistance fighter Josef Wirmer , Josef's younger brother Ernst was Rudolf Schlinker's classmate. Therefore, after the Nazi era , she got involved in the erection of a funeral lamp inaugurated in 1949 at the Warburger Brüderkirchhof in memory of Josef Wirmer and Wilhelm Emanuel von Ketteler . After August Schlinker's death in 1952, who shortly before had acquired the “Desenberg-Lichtspiele” in Kasseler Strasse, Rudolf took over both cinemas in Warburg and continued to run them as a sideline.

education

Heribert Schlinker, Rudolf's son, born in Siegen in 1936, also attended the Marianum high school, then studied German literature , history , theater studies , journalism , philosophy , and education and received his doctorate in 1965 at the University of Munich .

Cinema operators

After completing his studies, Schlinker moved back to Warburg to run and later take over his father's two cinemas. In 1971 he and his father acquired the Kur-Lichtspiele in Bad Driburg . In 1975 the Residenztheater followed in Höxter and in 1989 the theater in the Deutsches Haus, Stummrige Straße. In 1982 he had the Warburger Desenberg-Lichtspiele converted into a box cinema with three halls and a total of 325 seats. The star light plays were then closed. After founding the cinema operator association Cineplex , he joined it and in 1998 had the architect Lothar Beltz build a new Cineplex cinema center with 1108 seats in 6 halls and modern digital technology in the Oberer Hilgenstock industrial park in Warburg, which has around 150,000 visitors annually. At the same time, the Desenberg light shows were closed. At that time his daughters Judith and Ute were already working in the company, which was now run as a GbR . In 2011 two more halls were added. In the same year, the outdated cinema in Höxter was closed. For 2017, the company planned instead a new large cinema at Höxter between Stahle and Albaxen with seven halls, 1,300 seats and 200 parking spaces. However, the project failed in 2016 due to local resistance to the location.

Politician

Since his return to Warburg, Heribert Schlinker has also been politically active. In 1969 he was co-founder of the local voter community Bürgerunion, which saw itself as a bourgeois-liberal alternative to the local CDU and was elected mayor of Warburg at the age of 33 and with votes from the Citizens' Union and SPD. In this function, he mainly campaigned for the improvement of the weak economic structure of the city, which had been declared a federal development location by the state and federal government last year . A new industrial area was developed in the north of the city and several companies were established there, including a branch of the Benteler company . For the long-discussed expansion of the St. Petri Hospital , he tried to implement a completely new building outside of the city center and a conversion of the old building as an old people's and nursing home, but this did not succeed.

In 1974 the Sauerland / Paderborn law finally resulted in a communal territorial reform of Warburg, which brought together the surrounding villages of the former Warburg-Land district and thus a majority of the people living in the surrounding area. As a result, the CDU regained a majority in the city council. His successor as mayor was the farmer Josef Dierkes from Menne. After that, Schlinker remained the parliamentary group leader of the Citizens' Union on the city council until the 1990s. 1984 to 1989 he was deputy mayor. In 2000 Schlinker donated the Warburg Culture Prize endowed with 2000 euros.

Memberships and honors

Fonts

  • The Relationship of Young People to War Films: A Contribution to Pedagogy of Journalism (Dissertation at the University of Munich ), 441 pp. Munich 1965

Literature and Sources

  • Christina Zimmermann: Great cinema, the Schlinker family has been showing films on the screen for 100 years, Neue Westfälische Warburg , August 10, 2014 ( online )
  • Simone Flörke: New large cinema with seven halls and 1,300 seats to open in autumn , Neue Westfälische Höxter, Höxter, October 9, 2015 ( online )
  • Michael Rubisch: Honorary Culture Prize for Dr. Heribert Schlinker, Warburg on Sunday, Warburg, July 29, 2016 ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Schlinker: The jubilation of August 26-29, 1949 ,, Der Marianer Heft 1, Warburg 1950
  2. ^ The new FILM, Verlagsgesellschaft Feldt & Co., No. 87, Wiesbaden-Biebrich 1952
  3. ↑ Michael Robrecht: Dr. Schlinker is amazed at the lack of a »welcome culture« for investors in Höxter - there is no alternative to property for the cinema , Westfalenblatt, Höxter, March 10, 2016 ( online )
  4. ↑ David Schellenberg: How the end of the cinema affects cooperation between the municipalities , Neue Westfälische Höxter, March 17, 2016, ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Schlinker, Heribert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cinema operator and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins