Kulturpalast (Chemnitz)
The Kulturpalast in Chemnitz is a monumental building built on the north bank of the Pelzmühlenteich in the style of socialist classicism , a variant of neoclassicism .
The architects were Kurt Ritter, Adam Burger and Joachim Rackwitz. It was the first culture palace in the GDR to be built strictly on the Soviet model and was inaugurated on January 14, 1951 in the presence of the then Prime Minister of the GDR Otto Grotewohl . The cultural palace of the working people housed a theater hall with around 900 seats, a second large hall for dance events, a restaurant and a café, a library as well as a room for women, children, music and billiards.
The Kulturpalast was closed again in 1967. The reasons are no longer clearly understandable today. SDAG Wismut was no longer interested in the cost-intensive operation of the spacious building.
Use as a television studio
The building was later used by GDR television as a studio for Karl-Marx-Stadt and then by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) .
- Programs produced in the Karl-Marx-Stadt / Chemnitz studio
- Guess what . Moderation: Lutz Hoff . Broadcast from August 1974 to 1997, initially on East German television , later taken over by MDR.
- SpielSpaß - Moderation: Hans-Georg Ponesky . From 1977. 45-minute show based on the ZDF program "Pyramide".
- Diva. Moderation: Carmen Nebel . The focus of every show was a prominent woman (including Zarah Leander and Grace Kelly ). The program ran on Sunday evenings on MDR television and was also broadcast by the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB).
- Stop & Go - The switch-on show. Moderation: Jürgen Schulz. Viewers could call for stop or go during the broadcast and thus end contributions early. Broadcast from 1993 on Sunday evenings.
- Biwak - the mountain sports magazine
- Everything sings
- With Lutz and Liebe - Moderation: Lutz Jahoda .
- New Year's Eve shows on GDR television
- If. Then. The show! Children's show with Wolfgang Lippert . (Children's channel)
In the course of the completion of the new Leipzig broadcasting center in 2000, the MDR gave up the Kulturpalast as a broadcasting studio. In the autumn of 1999, the activities of the MDR in the Chemnitz studio were stopped and relocated to Leipzig. Since then, the building has been subject to vandalism and decay.
literature
- Lothar Schilde: The Kulturpalast Chemnitz-, Karl-Marx-Stadt-, Chemnitz-Rabenstein - The history of the house from the beginning to the present . Chemnitz-Rabenstein / Willy Göer printing works, Chemnitz-Rabenstein 2011, ISBN 978-3-937654-70-6 (76 pages).
Web links
- The story of the forgotten palace of a lost culture
- The Kulturpalast as a postcard motif
- Find Chemnitz Culture Palace
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fitzcarraldo's dream - rescuers wanted: The Kulturpalast Rabenstein near Chemnitz is threatened with demolition , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 16, 2011, p. 34
- ↑ Picture: ARD brings TV game show Guess it from oblivion May 23, 2017
- Jump up ↑ New Germany: Having fun while playing October 31, 1977
- ↑ Youtube: Preview trailer for Diva
- ↑ Youtube: Trailer for Stop & Go
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 12 ″ N , 12 ° 49 ′ 44 ″ E