Palast Theater (Hanover)

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The Palast-Theater in Hanover , initially also Palast-Lichtspiel , was one of the great traditional - and premier - cinemas in the Lower Saxony state capital for around eight decades until the beginning of the 21st century . The location was Bahnhofstrasse 5 in the (today's) district of Mitte .

history

At the time of the Weimar Republic at the beginning of the 1920s, the cinema was initially opened under the name Palast-Lichtspiele . One of the early premieres was the world premiere of the documentary about the Bremen - The Queen of the Seas by Dietrich W. Dreyer around 1929 .

At the time of National Socialism , at the latest in the middle of World War II , the property - according to the address book of the city of Hanover from 1941 - now at the address Adolf-Hitler-Straße 5 - was owned by Dea-Film GmbH & Co. A short time later it became the property of Dea-Film GmbH & Co. entire building destroyed during the air raids on Hanover .

After the war, the building contractor Friedrich Mehmel , who had previously owned the neighboring property at Bahnhofstrasse 6 and 7 , rebuilt the cinema building at the same location . Around the same time of the Hanoverian produced film director Rudolf Jugert 1947 his first director - debut with the strip film without titles , with the premiere of the now Palace Theater named Lichtspielhaus newly opened on 21 February 1948 its gaming operations. The audience now found a hall with a balcony and around 1000 seats in the center of the city, one reason why the Palast-Theater in Bahnhofstrasse, with the World Games in Georgstrasse , which opened only a little later, was one of the largest and most important Hanover premiere cinemas.

The palace theater was modernized several times, particularly from the time of the economic boom . So one was about 1956 Cinemascope - screen installed as well as a 4- channel - Magnetton Plant installed. After a renovation, an additional 47-seat room named Prinzess was offered for performances especially for children.

After Friedrich Mehmel died in 1966, the palace theater changed hands several times. In particular as a result of the big "cinema deaths", triggered by the spread of television in the 1960s and 1970s, the cinema on Bahnhofstrasse also fell into a financial crisis. Shortly after the UFA-Theater AG of the film salesman Heinz Riech had acquired the Hanoverian large cinema in 1981 , conversions in the years 1982 to 1984 to the so-called " box cinema " with a total of twelve smaller halls initially ensured the continued existence of the film business. It was not until the beginning of the 21st century that the then owner filed for bankruptcy in 2002, and the traditional cinema was closed on June 18, 2003. As a result, the building was converted into an office and commercial building.

literature

  • Rolf Aurich (editor) and a .: cinematographic dreams. Kino in Hannover 1896–1991 Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Theater am Aegi from October 6th to November 24th 1991, [Hannover]: Gesellschaft für Filmstudien , 1991, passim
  • Susanne Höbermann, Pamela Müller (Red.): We child prodigies. 100 years of film production in Lower Saxony , catalog for the traveling exhibition of the same name , initially in the Hanover Historical Museum from October 15, 1995 to January 14, 1996, published by the Society for Film Studies eV, Hanover: R & T Verlag, 1995, passim

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Notwithstanding this, the film lexicon from the Zweausendeins- Verlag names January 23, 1948 as the date of the premiere; compare the information on the film without a title ( memento from June 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Hugo Thielen : Palace Theater. 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. 494.
  2. ↑ a b c Compare, for example, the address book of the city of Hanover from 1941, Part II, page 2
  3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Bahnhofstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6
  4. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : DREYER, (1) Dietrich W. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 99; online through google books
  5. ↑ Hugo Thielen: Jugert, Rudolf. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 191.
  6. ^ Hugo Thielen: World Games. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 669

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 30.1 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 22.9 ″  E