Imperial Theater

Imperial Theater

The Imperial Theater is a theater in a former cinema in Hamburg .

history

The theater opened on August 19, 1994 in a former cinema and later a porn cinema. With its 277 seats, it has made a name for itself among German theaters due to its musicals (including Grease, Rocky Horror Show, Hossa!), Christmas performances (The Wizard of Oz, Cinderella, Räuber Hotzenplotz) and has become an integral part of Hamburg's cultural scene . The theater goes back to a non-stop contemporary cinema that opened in 1956 . 1957 was as Imperial for cinema converted. On June 27, 1963 it started as a 360 ° cinema under the name Cinemarium . Due to a lack of success it was sold in 1966 and reopened as the Neues Imperial , but this concept was not successful either. In 1972 it became the Imperial Sex Cinema and in 1980 it became the PAM Cinema . In 1983 the cinema was sold again and operated as a porn cinema under the name Movie-Star until 1993 .

Productions

Since March 15, 2003, the theater's programmatic focus has been clearly on crime novels. That is why they call themselves “Hamburg's crime theater”. The stage adaptations of the crime novels by Edgar Wallace , including "The Indian Cloth" (2004), "The Avenger" (2004), "The Witcher" (2005), "The Unheimliche" (2006), and "The Green Archer" developed into audience hits "(2007)," The Black Abbot "(2008)," The Angel of Terror "(2009)," The Strange Countess "(2010) and" The Weird Monk "(2011). In addition, pieces by Agatha Christie (Die Mausefalle) and Alfred Hitchcock (Murder when called) are performed.

The second venue has been open in the Maritim Hotel Reichshof since 2008: the “Krimi-Salon” takes place in the historic dining room, where the viewer sits in the middle of the theater during a menu sequence while the perpetrator is exposed right next to him.

The repertoire is also supplemented by numerous guest performances such as the Quatsch Comedy Club (for a total of eight years until 2003), Jan-Christof Scheibe, the improvised theater Steife Brise and Buddy Reloaded. National and international musicians and bands perform at the annual Reeperbahn Festival , while authors from all over the world read from their works at the Harbor Front Festival.

Web links

• Website of the Imperial Theater
• Imperial Filmtheater (Filmtheater im Imperial). In: cinema database. Film and TV Museum Hamburg, accessed on February 27, 2020 . 
• Hamburg Moviestar (Pam, Imperial). In: Kinowiki. Retrieved February 27, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hamburg Moviestar (Pam, Imperial). In: Kinowiki. Retrieved February 27, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 1 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 3 ″  E