Streit's movie theater

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Streit's Filmtheater, March 2007

Streit's Filmtheater , also Streits Filmtheater , on the former neon sign above the film theater entrance in Streit's Haus , was a cinema on Jungfernstieg in downtown Hamburg that existed from 1956 to 2013 . Most recently, the cinema had a projection room with a total of 463 seats, divided into parquet and tier, with a screen of 11.5 m × 5 m and a stage. The technical equipment included a 35 mm film projector , a 3D capable video projector and a Dolby SRD / DTS sound system. Program priorities were premieres , blockbusters and films in original version with subtitles ( subtitles ). The cinema was the venue for the Hamburg Film Festival and, from 1989, the Lesbian and Gay Film Days .

history

The Streit's Haus 2011 seen from the Inner Alster

The cinema had its origins in the Streit's Hotel, founded by Christian Streit in 1837 at Jungfernstieg 38 on Hamburg's Inner Alster . From the 1930s onwards, films were occasionally shown in the ballroom . The hotel survived the Second World War largely unscathed and was confiscated by the British occupation troops as officers' quarters. After the withdrawal of the British troops, the hotel, which had meanwhile become very shabby, would have had to be extensively renovated, which the owners no longer considered economical. The house was converted into an office building and the ballroom into a high-quality cinema.

The game was opened by the operator The Rank Organization on December 6, 1956 with the British comedy Doctor Ahoi! . From then on Streit's cinema was one of the top addresses for premieres and first performances in Hamburg with the participation of many international movie stars . A feature of the Streit's popular not only with cinema-goers for many years was the in-house bar with live piano music . After the owner J. Arthur Ranks died and the company was broken up, Streit's was sold to 20th Century Fox in May 1975 and to UFA in 1980 , which ran the cinema as a Ufa art house with a sophisticated cinema program. In 1986 the cinema, which was meanwhile in need of renovation, was rebuilt and completely renovated again in 2001, with the foyer and bar being returned to their original state. In a room behind the screen there was also a press studio with 35 seats and a bar, in which press presentations took place and which could be rented for private events. After the bankruptcy of UFA, CineStar took over Streit's in its multiplex cinema chain. In 2010 the analog technology was supplemented by a digital projector for 2D and 3D films .

In 2013 a protracted dispute about the future rental conditions and use of the premises escalated . The Reimers family, as the property owners of the Streit's house, wanted to replace the cinema with more lucrative offices and shops. Since no agreement could be reached regarding the termination modalities, gaming operations were terminated on April 2, 2013 under threat of coercion and the cinema was demolished shortly afterwards and rebuilt according to the plans of the property owners. Attempts at mediation by the Hamburg cultural authority were unsuccessful. The last performance was Sacha Gervasi's biopic Hitchcock .

Popular program items such as the sneak previews , original English versions and press screenings will continue in the Passage Kino in Mönckebergstraße. The managing director Gary Rohwedder switched to the Savoy Filmtheater, which reopened in 2013, where original versions have been shown since then. After the closure, the CineStar left inventory and technology to the homeowners, and many parts of it were passed on to private collectors.

In spring 2020, the Rossmann drugstore chain will open its four thousandth branch on the premises.

meaning

Among the Hamburg cinemas, the Streit's was the city's premiere cinema. The numerous German premieres include world successes such as Irma la Douce (1963), What's New, Pussy? (1965), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1976), Gandhi (1983), Yentl (1984) and Four Weddings and a Death (1994). International stars walked the red carpet here. In 1995 the first Douglas Sirk Prize of the Hamburg Film Festival, which took place at Streit's from 1992, was awarded to Clint Eastwood .

In 1983, the Streit's was proposed as one of the listed cinemas in Hamburg in a study. The German Cultural Council also put the Streit's on the red list of endangered cultural institutions, but only the facade of the building was placed under monument protection.

literature

  • Volker Reissmann: Last curtain on Jungfernstieg - the Streit's cinema was closed after 57 years . In: Film- und Fernsehmuseum Hamburg eV (Ed.): Hamburger Flimmern . No. 20 , 2013, p. 11–15 ( PDF [accessed February 26, 2020]).
  • Reinhold Happel, Holger Priess: Hamburger Lichtspieltheater: Collection of material about listed cinemas and former cinemas in the area of ​​the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . Cinema working group, Hamburg 1983.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filmtheater im Streit's. In: cinema database. Film and TV Museum Hamburg, accessed on March 20, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b c Sönke Tesch: Cinema information: Streits. In: Cinema timetable Hamburg. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c dispute. In: UFA cinemas. Film- und Fernsehmuseum Hamburg eV, accessed on March 20, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Bernhard Rosenkranz, Gottfried Lorenz: Hamburg on other ways: The history of gay life in the Hanseatic city . Lambda, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-925495-30-4 , p. 319 .
  5. ↑ Streit’s , streits.de/
  6. ↑ a b c d Volker Reissmann: Last curtain on Jungfernstieg - the Streit's cinema was closed after 57 years . In: Film- und Fernsehmuseum Hamburg eV (Ed.): Hamburger Flimmern . No. 20 , 2013, p. 11–15 ( PDF [accessed February 26, 2020]).
  7. ↑ T. Philipp-Clausen, K. Engler: Dispute about dispute lost - original version goodbye. In: welt.de. November 16, 2012, accessed March 22, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Streits Kino has finally closed its doors. In: Ahoi Hamburg. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Gerhard Witte: Hamburg's cinema jewel, the Savoy, has been reopened. In: www.in70mm.com. December 21, 2018, accessed April 13, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Hamburg: ROSSMANN opens 4,000th branch in Streit's Haus on Jungfernstieg. In: realestate.bnpparibas.de
  11. ^ Sally Meukow: Streit's cinema closes. In: Abendblatt.de , March 12, 2013
  12. ↑ Volker Behrens: Streit's: Nice hours with Shirley, Clint and Dustin. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. March 14, 2007, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Reinhold Happel, Holger Priess: Hamburger Lichtspieltheater: Collection of materials on cinemas worthy of monument protection and former cinemas in the area of ​​the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . Cinema working group, Hamburg 1983.

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 15.4 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 25.5"  E