Cascade (cinema)

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Ceiling design of the cascade cinema
Exterior view from Königsplatz (2013)

Kaskade is a former listed cinema on Königsplatz in Kassel .

In 1952 the cinema designed by Paul Bode opened. It was owned by the Georg Reiss film theater company and originally had a capacity of 903 seats. The design of the hall was considered a milestone in the design of cinemas and marked the move away from the theater towards pure cinema. Bode aimed to abolish the separation of auditorium and stage, this was achieved through spatial and lighting effects. Der Spiegel saw the cinema as the opposite of the trend of building cheap cinemas. The cinema was known for its water-air theater , the Otto Prystawik had designed.

In the cinema, the Kessler twins , Alice and Ellen Kessler, as well as the “Doppelte Lottchen” - Jutta and Isa Guenther - celebrated the premiere of their film Four Girls from the Wachau and Johannes Heesters and Marianne Schönauer the premiere of the film Bel Ami . Many of the post-war film actors were shown in the cascade cinema.

The last cinema screening took place after the construction of multiplex cinemas in 2000. The entrance area was then rented out as a fashion store, as was the BAMBI premises - the cinema had opened in the same building in 1956 - as a bakery branch. The listed cinema of the Kaskade remained unused for ten years. Construction work in the neighborhood in 2010 damaged the cinema. After a temporary use during dOCUMENTA (13) as a documenta venue , the new owner Aachener Grund began converting it into a retail sales area . Only the gold-colored folding ceiling, the water feature construction (under a walk-on glass floor), the lighting for the water features, the control panel for the control of the water features, the wall painting in the style of the 1950s and the gallery (no longer accessible) with approx. 80 original cinema seats are still reminiscent to the former cinema in which an organic market opened on December 11, 2014.

In July 2020 it was announced that the film chain Filmpalast in the multiplex cinema of Cinestar in Kassel, which was taken over in 2019 , was planning a replica of the cascade cinema with a "golden prism ceiling, red velvet armchairs and the illuminated, music-backed water features before the beginning every idea "builds. For this purpose, orchestral music was played to provide musical accompaniment to the computer-aided water features. The opening of the cinema is planned for September 2020.

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literature

  • The new film 5/1953

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Königsplatz construction site: damage to the cascade cinema again In: hna.de , November 25, 2010, accessed on November 20, 2018.
  2. ↑ CINEMA / ARCHITECTURE: Cheap and dark . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1953, pp. 27-30 ( Online - Apr. 8, 1953 ).
  3. ↑ Gabriele Jofer: Wonderful times in the cinema paradise . In: Monika Lerch-Stumpf (ed.): New paradises for cinema addicts: Munich cinema history 1945 to 2007 . Dölling and Galitz, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-937904-75-7 , pp. 92 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Ellen Schwaab: Kaskade-Kino becomes a documenta location and then rebuilt ( Memento from June 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Ellen Schwaab: Retail instead of cinema: Kaskade is being rebuilt In: hna.de , December 4, 2012, accessed on November 20, 2018.
  6. ↑ Kassel gets Germany's most modern cinema hna.de , July 19, 2020, accessed on July 20, 2020

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 55.7 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 48.9 ″  E