Schauburg (Cologne)

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The Schauburg was a cinema opened in Cologne in 1922 , which was then Germany's largest cinema.

History of origin

In 1920 there were a total of 39 cinemas in Cologne. The cinemas Modernes Theater (opened on October 31, 1912) and Agrippina-Lichtspiele (1913) were already located in Cologne's Breite Strasse ; the latter was located in a building that was built on behalf of the eponymous Agrippina Insurance Company. The Agrippina light plays were very popular and were considered to be of the highest artistic level. In November 1921, of all places, another cinema was planned in the neighboring building at Breite Straße 90, which was supposed to surpass the 925-seat audience for the Agrippina-Lichtspiele.

opening

On April 12, 1922, the Schauburg opened at 90 Breite Straße with 1868 seats. It was the largest cinema in Germany. “The Schauburg invited to the festive opening, and the call was answered with eager anticipation.” The film drama Hamlet with Asta Nielsen in the lead role, which had its German premiere in Hamburg on February 4, 1921, was shown.

Others

The oldest cinema in Cologne was the Thalia with 250 seats on Severinstrasse 152, which opened in 1906. The Union Theater followed in August 1906 at Hohe Strasse 23-25. In Cologne, cinemas were only founded in working-class neighborhoods after they had established themselves in the middle-class city center. The Cinedom is now the largest cinema in Cologne with 3748 seats (in 14 halls), while the Schauburg, after being destroyed on May 31, 1942 during the Second World War, was rebuilt to 370 seats and reopened on December 3, 1948. The Schauburg in the post-war years was limited spatially to the area of ​​the former foyer . The cinema was closed on March 31, 1963 and made way for a building project by the WDR .

literature

  • Bruno Fischli (Ed.): From seeing in the dark. Cinema stories of a city. Prometh-Verlag, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-922009-62-X .
  • Bruno Fischli, Anita Post: " The audience were in seventh heaven ..." - the "Schauburg". In: From seeing in the dark. Cinema stories of a city. Prometh-Verlag, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-922009-62-X , pp. 91-96.
  • Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne and its Jewish architects. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2294-0 , p. 144 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Fuchs , Chronicle of the History of the City of Cologne , 1991, p. 196.
  2. ↑ Der Kinomatograph, No. 771 of November 27, 1921.
  3. ↑ a b The Kinematograph No. 790 of April 8, 1922.
  4. ↑ Thomas Elsässer / Michael Wedel, A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades , 1996, p. 80.
  5. ↑ a b Bruno Fischli (Ed.): From seeing in the dark. Cinema stories of a city.
  6. ↑ All cinemas / Cologne
  7. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel: Cologne and its Jewish architects

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 19.3 "  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 57.1"  E