Robert Billerbeck

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Robert Billerbeck (born September 2, 1920 in Hanover ; † March 9, 1993 ibid) was a German cinema operator and film salesman . From the 1950s to the 1970s, he was one of the key organizers of the Hanoverian film and cinema scene.

Life

Born during the Weimar Republic shortly after the First World War , Robert Billerbeck only made a name for himself after the end of National Socialism and the Second World War . Before the war the city of Hanover had the highest density of cinemas in Germany with 34 theaters, but in 1945 just nine of them were preserved. In the city, which was almost half destroyed by the air raids on Hanover , he was able to reopen the Gloria Palace on Hildesheimer Strasse in Südstadt in 1945 - not least with the approval of the British occupiers and with a certificate from the Reconstruction Committee under Albin Karl . Soon after the currency reform and in the still young Federal Republic of Germany , the new building of the previously destroyed World Games in Georgstraße was completed, which for decades was the largest movie theater in Lower Saxony's capital with more than 1000 seats. Since the German premiere of the American film Clara Schumann's great love in 1949, Billerbeck has developed the cinema into one of the most popular premiere cinemas. The Grenzburg and the high-rise light games in the Anzeiger high-rise , which were taken over and opened in 1949 , soon became part of the cinema operator's portfolio . At times, Robert Billerbeck owned up to 17 cinemas at the same time in Hanover alone.

In the spring of 1971 Billerbeck took over the management of the button movie theater located on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg from the long-time operator Ellen Dietrich .

In the course of the German cinema crisis , the former sole owner of the World Games , for whose property the Woolworth department store chain acted as the landlord from 1975 , had to temporarily accept the "cinema king" Heinz Riech as a partner in his company.

One of Billerbeck's last new openings in 1974 was the Gloria Center complex with the three cinemas Gloria , Smoky and Intimes Theater in the Kurierhaus on Georgstrasse .

The grave of the person who died in 1993 can be found in the Ricklingen city cemetery .

literature

Web links

  • Michael Zgoll: Cinema history in the city of Leinestadt A look back at Hanover's film palaces / For younger people the Cinemaxx in Nikolaistraße may already be a traditional cinema - but when it comes to the century, the founding date of 1991 is of course nothing. In 1896 the first Hanover cinema opened its doors in Georgstrasse , with a picture gallery of historical photographs in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from July 31, 2013; last accessed online on July 31, 2014

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Hugo Thielen: BILLERBECK, Robert (see literature )
  2. ↑ Peter Struck : Hanover in 3 days: An entertaining cultural guide , 2008, p. 17; online through google books
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 694f.
  4. ↑ Dieter Tasch : Hanover between zero and new beginnings , Leuenhagen & Paris, 1985, p. 134
  5. ↑ a b c Hugo Thielen: World Games. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 669
  6. ↑ Note: Deviating from this, Billerbeck's biography, both in the Hanoverian Biographical Lexicon and in the City Lexicon of Hanover, probably erroneously names Bahnhofstrasse as the location of the new World Games
  7. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen: 1949. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 61
  8. ↑ a b World Games - History , Film and History, Hannover Culture Archive
  9. ^ Hugo Thielen: Hochhaus-Lichtspiele Hannover. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 300
  10. ↑ Michael Töteberg, Volker Reissmann: Have a couple of nice hours: Das Hamburger Kinobuch , Edition Temmen, 2008, p. 124; Preview over google books
  11. ↑ Capital , Vol. 20, Capital Verlagsgesellschaft, 1981, p. 21; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Billerbeck, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film salesman
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1993
Place of death Hanover