List of cinema organs by M. Welte & Sons

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This list of M. Welte & Söhne cinema organs contains all of the company's known cinema organs . This list is a supplement to the main article cinema organ and the article M. Welte & Sons , where the underlying literature can also be found. As far as known, the number of manuals and registers is noted in the “Size” column.

See also

year place building image size Pipes inauguration organist Remarks
1930 Aachen Capitol Filmbühne, Grenzwacht house , Römerstrasse 1,300 February 14, 1930 Richard Neumann (opening) Whereabouts unknown
1929 Berlin SUN 16 New Philharmonic, Köpenicker Straße 96–97 1,000 March 22, 1929 E. Schreck-Berger; Robert Ducksch; Fritz Baumann; Emil Sagawe Remaining unknown, probably war damage
1929 Berlin Stella Palace, Köpenicker Strasse 12-14 2,000 November 1929 Albert Harnisch; Emil Sagawe Remaining unknown, probably war damage
1927 Berlin W 50 Tauentzien-Lichtspiele, Tauentzienstrasse 19 1,080 November 1927 Paul Mania; Emil Sagawe With piano roll apparatus. Remaining unknown, probably war damage
1928 Berlin Lindström Group , recording studio Ernst Fischer (Marcel Palotti) “Great Odeon Organ”, destroyed in 1945
1929 Bonn Metropol-Theater , Markt 24 2 1,400 January 1929 W. Monar With piano roll apparatus. Since 2010 in Siegfried's Mechanical Music Cabinet, Rüdesheim
1928 Wroclaw Kosmos Theater, Nicolaistrasse 27 (św. Mikotaja) 1,100 December 23, 1928 Remaining unknown, most likely war damage
1928 Chemnitz Chamber light games, market 16 1,020 November 1927 Whereabouts unknown
1929 Chemnitz Luxor Palace, Hartmannstrasse 11 2 / P / 44 1,600 Piano roll apparatus removed in 1953, organ improperly dismantled in 1979 from the Luxor Palace and stored in the Filmmuseum Potsdam , returned to its original condition in 1993 by Jehmlich , Dresden, playable again since 1993
1922 Cuxhaven Chamber light games, Alter Weg 19 700 Whereabouts unknown
1922 Dusseldorf Capitol, Worringer Platz 2/9 1730 November 24, 1928 Hermann Happel; Adolf Wolff Welte model B. Location unknown
1929 Düsseldorf , formerly Wiesbaden, see there Black Box, cinema in the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf
1931 Erfurt , now Leipzig UFA-Palast, Bahnhofstrasse 41–44 2 / P / 40 1170 October 22, 1931 (last cinema organ built by Welte and last new installation in a German movie theater) E. Siegmund Ready to play in the large lecture hall of the Grassi Museum in Leipzig as an exhibit in the Musical Instrument Museum ; restored 2005–2006 by Jehmlich , Dresden
1928 Frankfurt am Main Bieberbau-Lichtspiele, Biebergasse 9 600 February 1928 Whereabouts unknown
1928 Frankfurt am Main Luna Palace, Schäfergasse 9 540 August 1928 Ernst Fuchs Kino was bombed out in 1942
1929 Frankfurt am Main Roxy-Filmpalast (Palast-Lichtspiele), Große Friedberger Straße 26 1100 October 1929 Hermann Happel; Adolf Wolff; Hanns Schmitt Whereabouts unknown
1929 Gelsenkirchen-Buer Schauburg Theater, Essener Strasse 9 1400 February 1, 1929 Hermann Happel (opening) Whereabouts unknown
1928 Gliwice Union Theater-Lichtspiele, Niederwallstraße 3 (ulica Dolnych Wałów) 990 December 1928 Serious fur Whereabouts unknown
1929 Goerlitz Capitol, Berliner Strasse 22 800 Whereabouts unknown
1929 Hamburg Schauburg Wandsbek, Wandsbeker Chaussee 72 1120 March 22, 1929 With piano roll apparatus. Destroyed July 28, 1943.
1930 Hamm UFA-Palast, Bahnhofstrasse 2 1150 September 1930 Gustav Bosch; Horst Schimmelpfennig Whereabouts unknown
1928 Hanover Planetarium-Lichtspiele, Kulturfilmbühne, Goseriede 5–6 210 December 1928 J. Meßner (opening); Gerhard Gregor Whereabouts unknown
unknown Herne Schauburg Theater, Bahnhofstrasse 72 900 Whereabouts unknown
1927 Koenigsberg UFA Theater, Münzstrasse 23 900 October 14, 1927 Traugott Fedtke Remaining unknown, most likely war damage
1928 Magdeburg Chamber light games, Breiter Weg 41 900 August 11, 1928 Hans Heiligenthal Whereabouts unknown
1927 Nuremberg Apollo Theater , Pfannenschmiedgasse 22 3200 November 1, 1927 Hans Haass With piano roll apparatus. 1957 privately owned in Vienna.
1927 Pforzheim UFA-Theater, Zerrenerstraße 4 1000 March 1927 Hermann Happel Remaining unknown, most likely war damage on February 23, 1945
1929 Szczecin UFA-Palast, Paradeplatz 60, war damage 1500 November 28, 1929 Kascmierski; Hanns Schmitt Whereabouts unknown
1926 Wiesbaden UFA-Palast (Park-Lichtspiele), Wilhelmstrasse 36 940 December 1926 E. Kissel Whereabouts unknown
1930 Wiesbaden / Düsseldorf Walhalla Theater, Kirchgasse 66 1200 July 22, 1930/1986 F. Deiters; Fritz Krieger Acquired in 1980 by the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf , the organ was restored, played back for the first time in January 1986 and has since been used regularly for silent film screenings.
1928 Barmen Odin Palace, corner of Berliner and Eynerner Strasse 950 November 1928 Robert Schäfer; Alfons Horn Whereabouts unknown
1928 St. Gallen , now Mannheim Scala theater 2/10 730 With piano roll apparatus. Since 1982 at the Technoseum Mannheim
1930 Zurich Cinema Capitol Theater Scrapped in 1951
1930 Zurich Cinéma Bellevue-Théatre Whereabouts unknown
1927 Zurich, now Servion , Switzerland Apollo theater 2/11 Now at Théâtre Barnabé, Servion, Switzerland
1930 Basel Palace-Cinéma Whereabouts unknown
unknown Basel Palermo Cinéma Whereabouts unknown
unknown Basel Capitol Theater Whereabouts unknown
unknown Bern Tonfilm-Splendid-Palace, from Werdt-Passage 8 2/7 Whereabouts unknown
unknown Bern Capitol Theater 2/26 Whereabouts unknown
unknown Geneva Cinema du Molard Whereabouts unknown
unknown Brussels Agora-Palace, rue Marché aux Herbes 105 In 1959 the cinema burned down and was then torn down
1930 Liege Cinéma Palace Liège, Rue Pont d'Avroy 21 Whereabouts unknown
unknown Basel Cinema Küchlin , Steinenvorstadt 55 Built according to Welte company documents. Whereabouts unknown
1930 Hamburg Nordische Rundfunk Aktiengesellschaft (NORAG), today Norddeutscher Rundfunk , Studio Rothenbaumchaussee 132 3 / P / 128 September 1930 Gerhard Gregor , Jürgen Lamke The so-called “radio organ”, a multiplex organ, is still ready to play at the original location

List of organs built by M. Welte & Sons Inc. for cinemas in the USA

year place building image size Pipes inauguration organist Remarks
1914 Brooklyn Alhambra Theater
1915 Brooklyn Broadway Theater
1914 New York City Astor Theater
1915 New York City Murray Hill Theater
1915 New York City Hamilton Theater
1915 New York City Plaza Theater
1915 Brooklyn Century Theater
1917 Poughkeepsie Stratford Theater

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jehmlich-Orgelbau: Welte-Kino-Orgel in the Filmmuseum Potsdam
  2. ↑ Bärbel Dalichow: The Welte cinema organ - The Welte cinema organ. Filmmuseum Potsdam, Potsdam 2009, ISBN 978-3-9812104-1-5
  3. ^ Karl Heinz Dettke: Cinema organs and cinema music in Germany. Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 1995, ISBN 3-476-01297-2 . P. 336
  4. ^ Jehmlich-Orgelbau: Welte-Kino-Orgel in the Musikinstrumentenmuseum Leipzig
  5. ^ Karl Heinz Dettke: The Welte cinema organ of the State Museum for Technology and Work in Mannheim . In: Das Musikinstrument, Vol. 45 (1996), pp. 14-18. ISSN  0027-4828
  6. ↑ Théâtre Barnabé: L'ORGUE DE CINEMA ( Memento from July 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ Friends of the Welte Funkorgel Hamburg e. V. ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weltefreunde.de
  8. ↑ Jürgen Lamke: The world radio organ of the North German Radio . In: Yearbook of the State Institute for Music Research, Vol. 11, pp. 277–323, Berlin, 1995 PDF
  9. ↑ Günter Seggermann: The great Welte radio organ in Hamburg . In: Ars organi. Vol. 56 (2008), 1, pp. 25-30. ISSN  0004-2919
  10. ^ The New York City Organ Project , accessed May 7, 2012.