Reform Theater
The Reform Theater was an early Lübeck cinema .
The movie theater at Breiten Straße 24 was opened by the dental technician Heinrich Schreiber in the winter of 1909 . Due to the premises on the ground floor of his very narrow old town house , the cinema was almost 18 meters long and barely four meters wide and only offered space for around 130 viewers.
Since there were already three well-established and popular cinemas in Lübeck, the Tonhalle , the Metropol and the Biophon , the Reform Theater found it difficult to find an audience. In addition, the technical quality of the demonstrations was poor in every respect, as a commission of the Lübeck high school authorities found in the spring of 1910, chaired by Senator Kulenkamp . Although the members of the commission had fundamental reservations about the cinema theaters, which were considered to be detrimental to youth and morality , they praised the quality of the picture and musical accompaniment in other cinemas, from which they also reported sold-out performances, while they were particularly strong in the almost deserted Reform Theater attested flickering images and classified the music as pure jingling on a piano .
Due to a lack of audience approval, the Reform Theater closed again in spring 1911 and Schreiber sold the building, which no longer exists today. The property is used today by the Sparkasse zu Lübeck .
See also
literature
- Petra Schaper: Cinemas in Lübeck . Verlag Graphische Werkstätten GmbH, Lübeck 1987. ISBN 3-925402-35-7