Savoy Theater (Düsseldorf)

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Savoy theater

The Savoy Theater is a theater in the House of the Chamber of Commerce at Graf-Adolf-Strasse 47 in Düsseldorf .

history

The hall was built according to plans by the Düsseldorf architect Hans Nehaus and opened on April 18, 1958 by the Willi Goldermann film theater company with the film The Ten Commandments as Savoy . On May 6, 1958, the smaller Atelier Theater in the basement opened with the premiere of the Bolshoi Ballet .

With the conception of the double cinema, the cinema operator reacted to the changing number of visitors. The range of films on offer was expanded by creating another venue. This was a first step towards cinema centers and the box-type theaters of the 1980s. The Savoy , with its 165 m² widescreen screen and the 70 mm Todd-AO projector in Cinemascope format, was used as a premiere theater for mainstream films, while the smaller atelier was conceived as an art cinema . By downsizing the Savoy parquet , the Apollo 90 with 207 seats could be installed in 1969. The opening took place on October 2, 1969 with Karel Reisz ' Isadora .

On September 29, 1972, the 50-seat theater Die Lupe opened with a screen as a screen that was projected onto from behind. Smoking was allowed in the cinema and there was a bar. Another small cinema was set up in 1978. The magnifying glass has now been renamed Lens 1 , and the new 55-seat theater has been named Lens 2 . After another renovation in 1989/90, the cinema center moved to UFA -Theater AG. Due to the opening of three multiplex cinemas , including the UFA-Palast located at the main train station, the Savoy Theater was closed on April 26, 2000.

On September 27, 2000, Stefan Jürging opened the Savoy Theater as a cabaret . Since September 13, 2006 the atelier has been operated as a film art cinema by Düsseldorfer Filmkunstkino GmbH .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New cinema theaters. In: The New Film No. 57/1958.
  2. ↑ Sema Kouschkerian: Weird , plush, amusing: The Savoy is ten years old. In: wz.de. September 28, 2010, accessed April 16, 2018 .
  3. ^ Robin Hetzel: Series Düsseldorfer Geschichte (s): Anticipation and the smell of popcorn. The Savoy cinema opened on Graf-Adolf-Strasse 60 years ago. In: rp-online.de. April 15, 2018, accessed April 16, 2018 .
  4. ^ Rolf Hosfeld: Savoy Theater . In: Kulturverführer Düsseldorf . Helmut Metz Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-937742-11-3 , pp. 21 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Petra Kuiper: "This is my life here". In: nrz.de. October 1, 2010, accessed April 16, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '7.2 "  N , 6 ° 47' 4.1"  E