Thega film palace
The Thega-Filmpalast is a cinema in Hildesheim . The cinema complex is located in Hildesheim's Oststadt right next to the city theater .
history
From 1911 on, there was a restaurant, the “Theatergarten”, on the site of the new Hildesheim theater building, which was inaugurated in 1909, in which films were shown after the First World War . Theater and cinema soon separated. The name “Thega”, the short form of “Theatergarten”, remained.
In March 1945 the "Thega Lichtspiele" were destroyed in an Allied bombing raid on Hildesheim. The rebuilt cinema was only reopened in November 1949 with the film “Madonna in Chains”. The first cinema screenings in the village had already been held in 1945: from September in the hall of the “United German Metalworks” (VDM) and from November 1945 in the Waldquelle restaurant .
In the 1950s, a modern and for the time extravagant cinema building was built, which with its curved prestressed concrete exterior formed a clear counterweight to the neighboring neoclassical city theater. Until the renovation in the 1970s, the entire building should have (almost) no wall with a right angle. To this day, essential parts of the now listed glass facade have survived all the renovations.
In addition to film screenings, the cinema was occasionally used for other screenings: on October 30, 1962, Klaus Kinski appeared on his second major recitation tour in the “Thega Lichtspiele”. The performance was broken off by Kinski after laughter and heckling from the audience.
In the early 1970s, it was converted into a cinema center. The large hall became five smaller cinemas with a total of around 650 seats ( box cinema ), with ruthless intervention in the old building structure.
An expansion of the complex by two more halls with around 250 seats each was planned for 2006. The extension was to take place on the site of the former east wing of the theater, which was not rebuilt after being destroyed in World War II . The owners of two neighboring properties brought an action against this. After going through the courts, the building project was released again in December 2006 by the Lower Saxony Higher Administrative Court . The completed renovation and extension was inaugurated in December 2007. Since then, the cinema complex has had a total of 1,150 seats. A new terrace was also laid out, reminding of the gastronomic origins of the “theater garden”. Since April 2, 2009 the cinema has been offering 3D films in a hall. The Schauburg was closed in the course of the expansion of the Thega.
From December 10, 2014, Dolby Atmos technology was used for the first time in room 7 . This audio platform supports up to 64 different loudspeaker feeds and thus enables a three-dimensional sound experience.
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Tast: The "Thega" - A Hildesheim Cinema History , in: Hildesheim Calendar 2008. Yearbook for History and Culture (Hildesheim 2007), p. 66 ff., ISBN 978-3-8067-8608-8 .
- Brigitte Tast, Hans-Jürgen Tast: Cinema in the 1970s , in: Hildesheim in the 1970s (Hildesheim 2008), p. 200 ff., ISBN 978-3-8067-8716-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Manfred Overesch : Renaissance of a cultural city - Hildesheim after the 2nd World War . Hildesheim 1998, p. 282.
- ↑ Overesch, p. 258 f.
- ↑ Decision of December 19, 2006 - 1 ME 207/06.
- ↑ Dolby Atmos in the THEGA-FILMPALAST! . Archived from the original on December 6, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 9.7 ″ N , 9 ° 57 ′ 28.9 ″ E