Princess Theater (Berlin)

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Poster printed by Beyer & Boehme in 1911 for the Prinzes Theater

The Princess Theater in Berlin was a theater opened in 1911 during the German Empire in the (then) city ​​of Charlottenburg near Berlin .

location

The new leisure attraction , located between the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and Joachimsthaler Strasse , secured the cinema numerous visitors. In the immediate vicinity, at Kantstrasse 162, the Olympia-Theater (Lichtspiele) had opened its doors shortly before . The Gadiel & Co. department store was set up in the same building together with the Prinzess-Lichtspiele, and visitors to both institutions had to pass the same doorman .

history

The Princess Theater was designed by the architect Lucian Bernhard by converting an earlier rented apartment building at Kantstrasse 163 and had 800 seats. In the middle of the First World War (1916) the department store no longer existed here, but three families lived in the building next to the Princess Theater, including a theater owner E. Arnold.

After the First World War and at the beginning of the Weimar Republic , Richard Oswald acquired the company in 1919 and ran it first under the name R. Oswald AG, Lichtspiele , then until 1926 as Oswald-Lichtspiele . At the beginning of the 1930s there was a railway supply association in the building , the Actiengesellschaft Körtung, Elektrizitätswerke , Deutsche Hydrierwerke AG , L. Winkelmann's publishing house and Richard-Oswald-Lichtspiele . H. Krahl, who was listed as a hotel owner in earlier address books, was now the caretaker. For some time, the Oswald Lichtspiele served as the premiere location for the films by Oswald, who was also a film director . In the 1930s he lived in Wilmersdorf , Landhausstrasse 62.

In 1935, no theater was named at the address given, but the railway delivery association, the hydrogenation works and a wagon factory joint-stock company were located here. From 1940 the facility operated under the name of Viktoria-Lichtspiele , including Viktoria am Zoo .

From the late 1940s on, there are no more cultural institutions in the house at 163 Kantstrasse.

In the 21st century, the property of the former Prinzess Theater belongs to a building area for which the Berlin Senate decided on a development plan in 2004 and published it in an ordinance. Buildings are to be built here that will have a mixed use of retail, service, accommodation and catering establishments, facilities for leisure and entertainment as well as for cultural, social, health and sporting purposes and offices, in exceptional cases also apartments.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Burkhard Sülzen (responsible): Prinzess-Theater Lichtspiele (cinema) Kantstr. 163 (Berlin) . plakatkontor.de
  2. ↑ Kantstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1912, V, Charlottenburg, p. 105 (Kantstrasse 162 Olympia-Theater with the director E. Schnabel; Kantstrasse 163 renovation).
  3. ↑ Kantstrasse 163 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1914, V, Charlottenburg, p. 653.
  4. ↑ Kantstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1911, V, Charlottenburg, p. 99 (Kantstrasse 163, owner of the factory owner P. Reichmann, three families in the house).
  5. ↑ Hans-Michael Bock, Ulrike von Lucke, Karl Witte (responsible): Richard Oswald - director, author, producer / biography CineGraph - Hamburgisches Centrum für Filmforschung e. V.
  6. ↑ Kantstrasse 163 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1916, V, Charlottenburg, p. 626.
  7. ↑ Kantstrasse 163 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1922, IV, Charlottenburg, p. 1076.
  8. ↑ Kantstrasse 163 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, IV, Charlottenburg, p. 1258.
  9. ↑ Oswald, Richard . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1935, I, p. 1894.
  10. ↑ Kantstrasse 163 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1940, IV, Charlottenburg, p. 1091.
  11. ↑ Sometimes cinema, sometimes theater . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 12, 1996, ISSN  0944-5560 ( luise-berlin.de - Berlin talks, the cinemas on the trail).
  12. ↑ Motion picture theater . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1940, p. 400. “Viktoria am Zoo”.
  13. ↑ Traxel – Vogt . In: Official telephone book for Berlin , 1950, p. 36 (no movie theater, no cinemas, no Viktoria am Zoo).
  14. ↑ Development plans VII-VE2. District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf; accessed on December 16, 2015.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 18 ″  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 57.8 ″  E