Cinema Aladin
The Aladin cinema was a cinema in Bremerhaven - Lehe at Rickmersstrasse 11/13, which was listed as a remarkable building from the 1950s.
history
The Aladin cinema was built from 1955 to 1956 for the film salesman Günter Hansel according to plans by the architect Heinz Feuerhack. In the 1950s, Hansel ran several cinemas in Lehe u. a. the Atlantis in Hafenstrasse and, since 1953, the Admiral cinema in Geestemünde . Feuerhack also planned, among other things, the conversion of the Central Cinema (later City ) in Hafenstrasse. The Aladin was the fourteenth cinema in Bremerhaven.
At that time, the Aladin had a flat roof rising towards the street front, with which it clearly towered over the adjoining two-storey residential and commercial buildings on both sides. In this way, the large structure with its neon advertising could be perceived from a distance in an effective way . The outside of the cinema is relatively simple and clearly recognizable as a theater building. The windowless cinema on the upper floor with a recognizable curvature, analogous to the guidance of the internal projection screen, emerges from the facade. Aladdin stands there in lively neon neon letters typical of the time and a magic lamp with a halo is depicted.
On the first floor was a funnel-shaped small shopping arcade with four shops. A starry sky of lights illuminates the floor covering made of Solnhof tiles . The walls in the entrance area consist of large, offset exhibition cabinets. In the middle of the entrance passage is the free-standing cinema box office, like an expressive sculpture. This cinema architecture from the 1950s is rare in Germany.
The opening year 1957 was the climax of the development of the cinema industry in Germany. The number of movie theaters in Germany rose sharply in the 1950s. As early as 1960, the number of moviegoers was declining, a trend that was reinforced by television. The Aladin also lost its use as a cinema after 2000.
Conversions
In 1969 it was converted into a wide screen cinema. Like the sister cinema Admiral , the Aladin had an oval hall with a sweeping stage front and a 15-meter wide cinemascope screen. The hall held 700 wine-red, highly padded seats. In 1976 there was another redesign with the reduction to 565 seats. On the right side wall of the hall was a twelve by six meter acrylic relief with a seaside town symbolism . From 1984 the Union-Kinobetriebsgesellschaft from Hamburg operated the Aladin. In November 1993, during the last interior renovation, the number of seats was reduced again to 460.
Surname
The Arabic name Aladin , in German "nobility / sublimity of faith", goes back to the main character of the oriental fairy tale Aladin and the magic lamp from the fairy tales from the Arabian Nights . The name currently only bears the Aladin Kino GmbH in Bremerhaven .
Monument protection
When a demolition application for the cinema was submitted, the important building Kino Aladin was placed under monument protection in 2007 .
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation: "Aladin" cinema is a cultural monument . Bremen and Bremerhaven 2007, [1] .
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '38.1 " N , 8 ° 35' 2.9" E