Metropol Theater (Hanover)

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The Nordstädter society house of the innkeeper Gustav Fischer with passage at the left end of the house facades of the Oberstrasse 7 and 8;
Multicolored lithograph , Willy Hoehl Verlag , around 1898

The Metropol Theater in Hanover was one of the most important cinemas in the history of the city of Hanover . As the premiere cinema UFA Oberstraße with its occasionally up to 1,400 seats, the Ufa-Theater Oberstraße , later also called Metropol-Lichtspiele , was one of the largest participation theaters of the UFA .

history

Gold-leaf lyre above the passage to the back buildings at Oberstrasse 8a as a symbol of the poets and thinkers in the Nordstadt community center
“Hanover under water. In memory of the 25th performance ”, greeting card from the Metropol in Oberstraße 7 with the“ Beer tunnel to Baumannshöhle ”;
so-called “artist card”, Verlag Mannheim & Co., Berlin, around 1903

In the oldest settlement center of today's Nordstadt , property ownership was transferred to an initially unnamed owner on the site of Oberstrasse 7 in the late founding period of the German Empire through an entry in the land register : The address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city Linden did not yet have a front building at Oberstrasse 7 for 1895, but for the already built rear building number 7a the bottled beer dealer Ludwig Meier on the ground floor and the washer Wenger on the first floor of the rear building were tenants . However, the front building of number 8 had already been built, which had passed into the ownership of Marie Fischer, née Grimme, on February 2, 1894. The address book referred to her profession in the parlance of the time as a restorer's wife. In 1895 she lived on the second floor of the rear building at Oberstrasse 8a.

After the bicycle wholesaler Friedrich C. Wagener had set up a cycling school with its own training track in Bella Vista in 1895 , the company opened a winter cycling school in the Nordstadt Gesellschaftshaus in 1897 - at the time the largest hall in the city of Hanover.

According to the address book, the Nordstädter Gesellschaftshaus in Oberstraße 8 was one of the places of entertainment in Hanover in 1899 - first and foremost the Royal Theater - in the sub-heading “Concert and other halls”, with Gustav Fischer as the innkeeper. Another establishment in Oberstrasse was not yet listed at the time. However, on September 6, 1898, a change of ownership for the property at number 7 was documented, on which the " Metropoltheater " finally opened on October 1, 1899.

For the season from June 30, 1910 to June 15, 1911, the house could accommodate 1,500 people. The owner at the time was “A. Müller "; Emil Graf was in charge of the management as well as the head management in Oberstrasse 7a . On April 4, the ensemble performed the play Prinz und Bettlerin , a military drama captured in a scene for a postcard of the time in eight acts by the British playwright Walter Howard and translated by Siegfried V. Lutz .

United Theater Lichtspiele (VT), “Germany's largest and most distinguished light plays”; Advertisement , 1920s

Also in 1911 one of the four Ufa film theaters in Hanover was founded at Oberstrasse 7. The operator was the company Vereinigte Theater Hagen & Sander, Filmtheaterbetriebe, Hanover at Aegidientorplatz 2. The company owned by the Bremen-based entrepreneurs Hagen and Sander, which is part of the UFA Group, soon also directed the Ufa-Lichtspiele in Hildesheimer Strasse in addition to the Ufa Theater in Oberstrasse 7 11 , the Ufa theater “ Vahrenwalderstr. 87/87 "and the Ufa-Theater Weltspiele in Georgstraße 12 .

During the First World War , the fire of a film reel in Oberstrasse 7 caused panic among the audience, but the audience was unharmed.

At the time of the Weimar Republic , the combined theaters in Oberstrasse and “Vahrenwalderstrasse” offered variety shows and restaurants in addition to the cinema. During these years, the Hanoverian houses of Hagen & Sander sometimes showed the same films in parallel, for example from February 7th to 13th, 1930 in the Ufa theaters in Oberstrasse and Vahrenwalder Strasse, the advertising film Die Schutzende published by the Reich Committee for the Preservation of Property Hand .

There were youth performances every Sunday afternoon in the cinema on Oberstrasse. A seat in the parquet cost 30 pfennigs . Who also 45 Pfennig for a movie star paid -Postkarte, was allowed on pages galleries sit. From there the view of the screen was worse, but the raised seat was at the same time associated with greater prestige . For a further 30 pfennigs the program booklets for the evening performance of the "adults" could be purchased. Although this had nothing to do with the current film of the afternoon performance, the owner had at the same time acquired the right to take a seat on the coveted central balcony.

After the concert hall on the Goethe Bridge was destroyed in the Second World War during the air raids on Hanover in 1943, the Lower Saxony Symphony Orchestra played the last of more than 400 “palace concerts ” in the Ufa cinema in Oberstrasse. Kapellmeister Otto Ebel von Sosen initiated the concert series back in 1932. The broadcast of the concert from Oberstrasse by the NORAG secondary station Hanover remained the last radio broadcast from Hanover until the post-war period . In 1943, the Metropol was also hit by aerial bombs .

In the post-war period , the film salesman Georg Hugo Will , who previously worked in Bergen-Belsen and the brother-in-law of the film actress Marlene Dietrich , had the cinema on Engelbosteler Damm in the northern part of Hanover renovated in the early 1950s and took over the management of the Metropol-Lichtspiele from 1951. According to other information, the Metropol-Lichtspieltheater GmbH is said to have "rebuilt" the premises for the film screening at Engelbosteler Damm 5, now with 550 seats in front of an eight-meter-wide screen, while the hall was equipped with a stereo sound system with sound film amplifier.

In the evening, the facade of the Bumke company at Engelbosteler Damm 5 illuminated with blue neon tubes ;
Recording in early February 2019

In June 1959, the electrical and plumbing wholesaler Hermann Albert Bumke managed to purchase the property at Oberstrasse 7 adjacent to the company premises on Engelbosteler Damm under its owner Eduard Bergmann . In the same year, Georg Hugo Will began his involvement in the spa business in Bad Münder . However, Bumke subsequently set up an office and a warehouse building on the 3300 m² property at Oberstrasse 7 that he had acquired.

After the death of the owner Inge Bergmann , the real estate including the approximately 8,200 m² commercial area of ​​the Bumke company, which wants to give up the Nordstadt location, was sold to the Theo Gerlach housing company at the end of 2017 , which wants to develop a new residential area on the site. After the state capital Hanover initiated a change to the development plan , the investor Gerlach announced a public discussion event with public participation at the beginning of February 2019 in order to find ideas for project development together. At a first meeting in the Nordstadt district center Bürgererschule, however, the rush was so great that the event had to be canceled in order to find a larger meeting room for the announced discussion.

literature

  • Hans-Peter Wiechers: A theater with an eventful history / For a long time, a piece of Hanoverian theater history had been forgotten; HAZ readers now remember the Metropol-Theater in Oberstrasse, which was converted into a cinema in 1911. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . September 3, 2008.

Web links

Commons : Metropol-Theater (Hannover)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Thielen : Film history (cinemas). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 178; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ^ A b c Claudia Gröschel, Ingo Bultmann: Delicate temptation, culture on the doorstep. Nordstadt , in Ingo Bultmann, Thomas Neumann, Jutta Schiecke (eds.): Hanover on foot. 18 district tours through past and present , Hamburg: VSA-Verlag, 1989, ISBN 978-3-87975-471-7 and ISBN 3-87975-471-3 , pp. 140–160; here section Oberstr. 7 , pp. 143f.
  3. ↑ a b Bogusław Drewniak : The German Film 1938 - 1945. A total overview , Düsseldorf: Droste, 1987, ISBN 978-3-7700-0731-8 and ISBN 3-7700-0731-X , p. 616; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ a b c d Heinrich Thies : Fesche Lola, brave Liesel. Marlene Dietrich and her denied sister. Hoffmann and Campe, 2017 ISBN 978-3-455-00161-7 , passim; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ↑ Compare the address book, city and business handbook of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden (ABH) for the year 1895, section I, 2: Street and house directory in alphabetical order of street names with details of the house owners and residents , p. 336; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library (GWLB)
  6. ^ Paul Siedentopf (main editor): Friedrich C. Wagener. Automobile and bicycle wholesaler. Hanover, sales rooms and main office: Grupenstrasse 4, repair workshop and large garage: Residenz-Autohallen, Marktstrasse 46-47 , in this: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the help of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the images), Jubilee publisher Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 180
  7. ↑ a b ABH for 1899, Division II, 15: Places of entertainment , pp. 180-183; here: p. 181; Digitized version of the GWLB
  8. ^ ABH for 1899, 1st section, 3: Alphabetical directory of residents and trading companies , p. 655; Digitized
  9. ^ ABH for the year 1911, section II: Street and house directory for Hanover, p. 246
  10. ^ ABH for 1911, Section V, 15: Places of entertainment , p. 204
  11. ↑ a b New Theater Almanac . Theater history year and address book / Cooperative German Theater Members for the year 1911, Berlin: FAGünther, p. 458; limited preview in Google Book search
  12. ↑ Bernd Sperlich: Image 6 of 7 from article: Where was Hanover amused on April 4, 1911? on the myheimat.de page from April 4, 2011
  13. ^ A b Reichs-Kino-Adreßbuch , edited according to official material , Volume 18, Berlin: Verlag der Lichtbildbühne, 1919, pp. 62, 66, 319; limited preview in Google Book search
  14. ^ A b c Karl-Heinz Grotjahn (author): Steel and turnips. Contributions and sources on the history of Lower Saxony during the First World War (1914-1918) (= publications of the Lower Saxony State Library Hanover , Volume 12), Volume 2, Hameln: CW Niemeyer Verlag, 1993, ISBN 978-3-87585-462-6 and ISBN 3 -87585-462-4 , p. 291; limited preview in Google Book search
  15. ↑ Adelheid von Saldern (Ed.): City and Modernity. Hanover in the Weimar Republic (= series of results , Vol. 44), 1st edition, Hamburg: Results, 1989, ISBN 978-3-925622-51-9 , p. 288; limited preview in Google Book search
  16. ↑ Farben-Zeitung . Journal of the lacquer, paint and glue industry. Central organ for the entire paint, varnish, varnish and glue production, as well as all auxiliary and ancillary industries and the trade in paints, dyed goods, varnishes etc. , Volume 35, Part 1, Berlin: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1929, p 956; limited preview in Google Book search
  17. ↑ Thomas Grabe, Reimar Hollmann, Klaus Mlynek, Michael Radtke: Thierfelders heroic Beethoven , in this: Live under the cloud of death ... Hanover in World War II , Hamburg: Ernst Kabel Verlag, ISBN 978-3-921909-17 -1 , pp. 178-181; here: p. 178; limited preview in Google Book search
  18. ↑ n.v . : The large cinema in the Nordstadt / 1961 was the end of the Metropol-Theater , article [undated] on the page hannover.de , last accessed on February 3, 2019
  19. ↑ a b Inge Bergmann : Hermann Albert Bumke. Electrical and plumbing wholesalers , in Franz B. Döpper , Ursula Döpper, M. von der Au (Red.): Hanover and its old companies . Pro Historica, Society for German Economic History, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-89146-002-3 , p. 220f.
  20. ↑ Two obituaries in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) from July 23, 2016, p. 18
  21. ^ Bil: Too many citizens want to have a say / discussion about Nordstadt-Quartier. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 2, 2019, p. 20

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