Rio (Lübeck)
Roxy
A building application had already been submitted in July 1948 to turn the hall of the Harmonie ballroom in Hundestrasse 41 into a cinema. The renovation of the historic gabled house, however, turned out to be very problematic and the work that had begun was discontinued. In November 1949 the Hanoverian Fritz Zimmermann resumed the renovation, but the work dragged on again. The 192-seat cinema, which was given the name Roxy , was not completed until the spring of 1951 .
On April 6, Zimmermann announced in the Lübeck Free Press that he primarily intended to show westerns ; but since this film genre was already covered by other Lübeck cinemas, he looked for a promising market niche. Although the operetta film The Gypsy Baron from 1935 was shown at the opening on July 25th, Zimmermann then specialized in the screening of films that were considered erotic and wicked by the standards of the 1950s , without being legally doubtful, often with the reputation of the cinema helped to win over regular audiences for unspectacular films. Occasionally Zimmermann had so-called beauty dancers appear as an accompanying program . In the late performances, however, only westerns, crime novels and similar films were shown.
Rio
In the summer of 1956, Bruno Wieland and his wife took over the cinema and changed the name to Rio . The program concept was retained for the following 14 years. After the death of his wife towards the end of 1970, Wieland wanted to close the cinema, but had to continue operating it for another year because he had to fulfill obligations arising from the rental agreement . Since the Hundestrasse had meanwhile developed into a preferred residential area for guest workers , Wieland showed films from the respective countries in their original versions this past year. At the end of 1971 the Rio was closed.
See also
literature
- Petra Schaper: Cinemas in Lübeck . Verlag Graphische Werkstätten GmbH, Lübeck 1987, ISBN 3-925402-35-7
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 5.6 ″ N , 10 ° 41 ′ 29 ″ E