Coral cinema

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Koralle cinema in the community center Koralle

The Coral cinema is a cinema in the Hamburg district of Volksdorf . It has been housed in the Bürgerhaus Koralle cultural center in Kattjahren since 2002 and is run by the film theater operator Hans-Peter Jansen , who primarily works with small regional ones with the Blankeneser Kino , Elbe-Filmtheater , Studio Kino in Hamburg, ASTRA Filmtheater Plön and Burg Filmtheater Fehmarn Cinemas is active.

The cinema is the only art house cinema in the north of Hamburg. The program focuses on premieres , documentaries , films for children and young people .

The cinema has two projection rooms. Room 1 has 138 seats, room 2 77 seats. The screen walls in both halls measure 42 m² and both halls are equipped with Dolby Digital SR sound systems. A so-called UFA gong is used in the halls and one of the halls is equipped with a stage.

history

The cinema goes back to the film theater Die Koralle, which was opened by Herbert Wrage in 1956 in the street Im Alten Dorfe 25/27 in Hamburg-Volksdorf. It was a modern cinema in a purpose-built brick building with a single-storey foyer . In the 1970s, the screening room was reduced in size and Hans Wrage became the new owner. From 1980 Elke Besse and in 1994 the Hamburg cinema entrepreneurs Gerd Fölster and Arndt Eggers took over the game operations. The cinema was always a well-attended district premiere cinema, but lost this status for licensing reasons and became a follow-up cinema. The cinema had to be closed on December 31, 1999 because the lease was terminated in due time and the Deutsche Bank branch located in the same building (or, according to another source: Hamburger Sparkasse ) was taking up the space. At that time it was the last of the three existing cinemas in Volksdorf. The cinema had a cinemascope screen measuring 10.6 mx 4.12 m.

The closure of the well-running cinema caused resentment among the neighborhood. The support association “Die Koralle, district cultural association in Volksdorf” was founded on this and, with successful signatures and fundraising campaigns , succeeded in converting a nearby former transformer station of the Hamburger Hochbahn on Kattjahren 1 into a cultural center, including a cinema. On June 6, 2002 the cultural center with the new Koralle cinema was opened. The interior of the cinema, such as the blue seating and the neon advertising , were taken over from the old cinema.

reception

The cinema is considered a "Volksdorf institution" with the special feature of civic engagement for its preservation. The taz called the “only cinema in the area accessible by transport” as a “traditional cinema”. The Hamburger Abendblatt also called the cinema that. The Koralle Kino's annual program has received numerous awards from federal ministries and Hamburg's cultural authorities . According to the operator, it is one of the top ten in Germany in terms of seat occupancy.

Web links

  • website
  • Coral. In: cinema database. Film and TV Museum Hamburg, accessed on February 29, 2020 .
  • Coral, The (old). In: cinema database. Film and TV Museum Hamburg, accessed on February 29, 2020 .
  • The coral. In: Cinemas in the Volksdorf district. Film and TV Museum Hamburg, accessed on February 29, 2020 .
  • Hamburg Koralle Volksdorf. In: Kikowiki. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hamburg. From Altona to Zollenspieker , Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-455-11333-8 , p. 1049.
  2. ↑ a b Koralle movie theater. In: hamburg.de. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Coral. In: Hamburg Film and Television Museum. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Koralle, Die (old). In: cinema database. Film and TV Museum Hamburg, accessed on February 29, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b The coral. In: Cinemas in the Volksdorf district. Film and TV Museum Hamburg, accessed on February 29, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Tanja Strünckel: Battle for the corals. In: taz.de. November 12, 1999, accessed March 7, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Lease terminated: Off for "Koralle" cinema. In: Abendblatt.de. November 3, 1999, accessed March 7, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Koralle-Kino in Volksdorf: Cherished, cared for, loved. In: IMK film and television criticism. Institute for Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg, July 28, 2017, accessed on March 8, 2020 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 5.7 ″  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 47.7 ″  E