Luxor (Lübeck)
The Luxor was a Lübeck cinema .
Union light plays
Built in 1599 and in 1800 with a new brick - façade provided building Engelsgrube 66 opened on 15 October 1926, the Union-air theater . It was a simply equipped so-called aftermath cinema with around 300 seats, in which films were shown that had already been shown in the larger cinemas. At the beginning of 1932, the owner had to offer the cinema for sale due to the global economic crisis .
Rialto
The Hamburger Richard Wittenberg , who had already operated in his hometown until 1929 a cinema, acquired the movie theater and began in April 1932 with the modernization, in the cinema, but has become inevitable with the hitherto nonexistent now sound film equipment was fitted.
The reopening under the new name Rialto took place on July 8th. On this occasion, the two sound films The Daredevil with Hans Albers and Who Takes Love Seriously? with Jenny Jugo , which was an exception, as the Rialto, like many small cinemas at that time, still combined an expensive sound film with a silent film in its normal program , the rental costs of which were often only a seventh of a sound film.
In the spring of 1933, Wittenberg acquired the Capitol in addition to the Rialto , which he operated under the new name National .
In 1934 Walter Kruse took over the Rialto from Wittenberg. The cinema survived the Second World War unscathed; after it had to cease operations on May 2, 1945 when Lübeck was occupied by British troops, Kruse was able to reopen the cinema on August 6.
Luxor
In February 1960, the playhouse became the property of Minna Kirch , who had previously directed the Eden-Lichtspiele and who had owned the City since 1951 . It operated the cinema under the new name of Luxor until July 1964, when it stopped operating the cinema. In the same year, a dance hall opened in the former cinema . Since 1981, the building, which was placed under monument protection in 1967 , has housed the Museum Haus Hansestadt Danzig , whose private sponsor is the Haus Hansestadt Danzig Foundation. The Gdansk Federation operated its office here from 1981 to 2009.
See also
literature
- Petra Schaper: Cinemas in Lübeck . Verlag Graphische Werkstätten GmbH, Lübeck 1987. ISBN 3-925402-35-7
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 19.5 ″ N , 10 ° 41 ′ 6.4 ″ E