Prism (cinema)

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Ufa cinema 1991

The prism was a cinema and cultural building in Halle-Neustadt . The building, inaugurated in 1982, was the last new cinema building in the GDR . The cinema was in operation until 1998, when it was demolished the following year.

history

prehistory

As early as the 1960s, the city planners of Halle-Neustadt planned a central square as the city's cultural and political center. The most prominent point of the square and at the same time the city skyline was to be the 100-meter-high "high-rise for chemistry". In addition, municipal administration buildings, an S-Bahn station and a cultural center were planned. The plans for the skyscraper were discarded in 1974. The communal buildings were also not realized (apart from a new building at the end of the 1980s, which was never used as such). Instead of the planned cultural center, the cinema with the name Prisma was built.

Time until 1989

Construction work for the prism began with the laying of the foundation stone on October 5, 1979. In addition to the cinema with a large and a small hall, a youth club, a room for film clubs, a foyer bar, the “Journal” café and a jewelry store called “Schatulle” were built in Building erected. The artist Ludwig Ehrler designed the interior of the foyer of the cinema, for which he was awarded the Architecture Prize of the Halle District Council in 1983.

The facility was opened on August 10, 1982. The first film to be shown in Prisma was the Soviet detective film The Secret of the Notebook . In addition to film screenings, concerts, film weeks, exhibitions and other cultural events were held in the Prisma, such as youth consecrations and children's day events . In addition, the film copy warehouse of the Halle district film directorate was located in the facility. On the initiative of the GDR radio and the Halle-Neustadt Kulturbundgruppe, the country's first radio play club opened in Prisma in 1986. The first radio play performed and discussed there was Frau im Zug by Gabriele Bigott .

Post-turnaround time

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the prism was taken over and modernized by Ufa . For economic reasons the cinema was closed in 1998; the last film screening took place on May 31 of that year. In 1999 the cinema was torn down. The Neustadt-Centrum shopping center was opened in its place in 2000 .

In 2004, a public exhibition on the demolition of the prism was shown in the Neustadt Center.

Others

On February 24, 1990, the founding event of the CDU regional association of Saxony-Anhalt , the first CDU regional association in what was then the GDR, took place in Prisma . In the presence of the then party chairman Lothar de Maizière , Gerd Gies was appointed state chairman.

The film posters for the current program of the Prisma were made by the poster painter Wilfried Kuhne during the entire time the cinema was in existence.

literature

  • Peer Pasternack et al. a .: 50 years of dispute in Halle-Neustadt. Idea and experiment. Place of life and provocation. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2014. ISBN 978-3-95462-287-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lars Grummich: The socialist urban development and its legacy: An investigation using the example of the planned city Halle-Neustadt . Diplomica Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8428-9052-7 , p. 64 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Pasternack u. a .: 50 years of dispute in Halle-Neustadt. P. 547.
  3. ^ Cinema in Halle-Neustadt. In: Bauzeitung. Ministry of Construction (Ed.) 1983.
  4. ^ A b Silvia Zöller: Neustadt stories - “Titanic” ran in the last performance. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, June 27, 2014, accessed on September 11, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Pasternack u. a .: 50 years of dispute in Halle-Neustadt. P. 150.
  6. ↑ Thomas Schult: radio play club in the cinema. In: Neues Deutschland, edition of February 18, 1986, p. 6.
  7. ↑ Facts - space for around 500th Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, June 27, 2014, accessed on September 11, 2018 .
  8. ↑ a b Ines Krause: Exhibition - The last cinema in the GDR moves to tears. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, February 20, 2004, accessed on September 11, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Allmuth Schaarschmidt: With load-bearing program - founded CDU Regional Association of Saxony-Anhalt. Neue Zeit, edition of February 26, 1990, p. 1f.

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 45.9 ″  N , 11 ° 55 ′ 13.6 ″  E