Rudolf Lunau

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Memorial plaque in the house, Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 30, in Berlin-Mitte

Rudolf Lunau (born June 27, 1906 ; lost on September 24, 1944 ) was a German projectionist and resistance fighter during the Nazi era . His activities contributed to the Berlin film theater Babylon becoming a refuge for opponents of the regime.

Lunau worked as a demonstrator in Babylon in the 1930s . After the Nazis came to power in 1933, he founded a KPD resistance cell in the cinema . Illegal meetings of this group took place regularly in his projection room. There he also hid persecuted opponents and material for the work of the group.

On November 20, 1934, he was sentenced to four years in prison for communist agitation . In 1943 he was drafted for military service in the Penal Division 999 , where his trail is lost.

In the early 1980s, a metal plate was installed in the foyer of the Babylon cinema in memory of Lunau as part of the GDR commemorative plaque program . The rectangular, dark board is marked with a red triangle as a symbol of communist resistance. The inscription reads:

In memory of the anti-fascist resistance fighter Rudolf Lunau.
In 1933-1934 he set up a base in this cinema for the illegal work of a resistance group of the KPD.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Hanisch: The Babylon. Stories about a Berlin cinema with digressions (brochure), Berlin 2002, p. 28.

Web links

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