Hennef Kurtheater
The Kurtheater Hennef (also Kur-Theater Hennef ) was built in 1938. It is the first and last of three cinemas in Hennef , next to the already closed film theaters Central (now “Jaja”) and Parklichtspiele (now a video store) on Frankfurter Strasse . The building is a listed building and has 195 seats.
Since 2003 the cinema has been run by the “Association of Friends and Patrons of the Kur-Theater Hennef e. V. "operated. In addition to films, it is also used for cabaret , music and other events.
history
The cinema’s first predecessor was the neighboring dance hall in 1925. It was equipped with benches for silent film screenings, there was a piano , which is still in the foyer of the cinema, and a violin to accompany music . In 1932 the cinema became the “Kur-Lichtspiele” sound film theater.
The current cinema building was completed in 1938, and on August 13th the opening ceremony took place with the film Always when I'm happy (with Theo Lingen and Hans Moser ) and a film ball. Because the Hennef not at the Kristallnacht the Nazis wanted to participate in 1938, which was in the cinema propaganda film Jew without a mask shown, bringing the Hennef from the seemingly from the Jews should be convinced outgoing danger.
After the cinema was closed for a short time towards the end of the Second World War in 1945, American soldiers reopened the spa theater after the end of the war. They generated the electricity for their film screenings themselves with a generator . A short time later, British soldiers took over the cinema.
Because the cinema itself was not profitable in 1949, the Bellinghausen family who ran it looked for other ways to earn money in order to keep the house. The conversion to the opera house was carried out under the supervision of Richard Bellinghausen. The cinema was lengthened by a third, so it went even further behind the screen . The "Kur-Lichtspiele" have now been renamed the "Kur-Theater". It had 600 seats, a rotating stage and an orchestra room for 50 musicians. At times, up to 200 actors, stagehands, musicians and other collaborators were involved in a single performance. The Magic Flute was played at the opening of the opera house . Cinema and opera operations ran parallel during this time.
A few years later, however, the theater was stopped again because it was too expensive and financially unsustainable. The construction was shortened again.
Since then, the cinema has repeatedly served as a backdrop for filming - be it a music video by Bläck Fööss ( Wenn et Leech usjing em Roxy ), recordings for a cinema magazine from RTL , commercials or, in 2008, a scene from the movie The Discovery of Currywurst with Barbara Sukowa .
When the Bellinghausen family wanted to withdraw from the cinema in 2003, the then treasurer of the city Hennef Lutz Urbach , the then medical student Daniel Huys and the entrepreneur Manfred Raderschad made the decision to continue running the Kur-Theater as an association on a voluntary basis. Ingo Teusch has been running the association together with a six-member board since 2008, which now has over 1000 members. Prominent members are u. a. the television journalist Ranga Yogeshwar , Andreas Etienne and the cabaret artist Anka Zink .
program
A wide-ranging cultural program is offered on the stage. Among others were already Luke Mockridge , Tommy Engel , Beikircher , Small and Linzenich, Gerd Köster , Robert Kreis , Jürgen Becker , Anka Zink , Guido Cantz , Bernd Stelter , Stephan Sulke , Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen , David Munyon , Laith Al-Deen , Horst Schroth , the a cappella band Basta and the writer Jan Weiler . Self-organized events such as the local talk show “Das Hennefer Sofa”, the variety event “Kur-Theater Weihnachtsrevue” and the talent shows “Undetected ?!” and “Stage fright” are also popular.
In addition to the screenings of classics and cult films, special events in the cinema area are the “diaper bag cinema” for mothers with their babies and the silent film evening accompanied by live music. There are regular previews of films that have not yet officially launched - if possible, in the presence of prominent guests from the film industry. The directors Sinan Akkuş , Frieder Wagner , André Schäfer, Armin Völckers , Erica von Moeller, Sigrid Klausmann-Sittler and Vanessa Jopp as well as the actors Sarah Kim Gries , Walter Sittler and Heinrich Schafmeister were guests at the Kur-Theater.
technology
Up until the summer of 2011, films dating from 1958 were shown via two Bauer B8A 35 mm film projectors. Since extensive renovation work in February and March 2008, one machine was only used for the preliminary program, while the main program was fed by a Cinemeccanica coil tower . Furthermore, cross-fade operation m- with 600 and 1800 m-coils of the two machines is possible. Both projectors are equipped with Bauer sound devices that have been converted to modern laser scanning for Dolby SR . The main machine is also equipped with scanning systems for Dolby Digital and DTS .
The cinema has an 8-channel sound system ( configuration 7.1 ), which consists of a total of 16 loudspeakers . It is controlled by a USL JSD-80D cinema processor, as well as DTS -6 and Dolby DA20 processors. The operating association spent around 15,000 euros on this equipment, of which 3,700 euros were donated by the North Rhine-Westphalia Film Foundation .
In 2011 the projection system was rebuilt: One of the two 35 mm film projectors was removed and a Kinoton DCP 30SXII projector with Doremi server for playing digital films in accordance with the DCI standard was installed. The system is equipped with a Volfoni 3D cinema system, for which a total of 200 active 3D glasses were purchased. Furthermore, a professional scaler is installed on the projector, which enables the playback of alternative content ( Blu-ray , DVD , satellite television, etc.). At the same time, a new, larger screen was installed in the hall . The possibility of reproducing 35 mm film material is still given.
In the hall there is also a separate sound system for special events. The spotlights installed on both sides of the room (6 × Fresnel lenses , 6 × PAR-64 ) are also used at these events .
Awards
Between 2005 and 2017, the Kur-Theater was awarded the annual film program prize or the KinoProgrammPreis thirteen times in a row by the Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen for its “outstanding film program”. Between 2008 and 2013 the cinema received the cinema program award from Minister of State Bernd Neumann six times in a row .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anke Vehmeier: "Soon the screen will remain white forever" In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de created on January 17, 2003
- ↑ Marc Steinhäuser: "From poster sticker to cinema boss" (PDF; 372 kB). In: Kölnische Rundschau August 1, 2007.
- ^ Kur-Theater Hennef e. V .: The association. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
- ↑ Klaus Heuschötter "digital technology came with a forklift" . In: Rundschau-online.de created on September 2, 2011.
- ^ Ingo Eisner "Cinema program award - Kur-Theater awarded" . In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de created on November 5, 2012.
- ↑ Marc C. Schmidt "Kur-Theater Hennef receives cinema program award NRW" . In: Hennef Magazin published on November 10, 2015.
- ^ Ralf Rohrmoser-von Glasow "Another prize for cinema association" . In: ksta.de created on November 11, 2012.
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 32.5 ″ N , 7 ° 16 ′ 30.8 ″ E