Ufa Palace at the Zoo
The Ufa-Palast am Zoo was the most significant Uraufführungs - movie theater of the Universum Film AG (UFA) in Berlin . It was opened in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1919 and was one of the crowd pullers in Berlin's New West until it was destroyed in World War II .
history
The building at Hardenbergstrasse 29 was designed by Carl Gause based on the “ first ” and “ second ” Romanesque houses by Franz Schwechten , not far from Auguste-Viktoria-Platz . In the years 1905 to 1907 it was built as an exhibition hall at the zoological garden . The building contained two large halls with surrounding galleries. In 1912 Arthur Biberfeld (1874–1959) converted the western hall on behalf of the Cines Film Company for the performance of the world hit Quo Vadis? into a movie theater. Between 1913 and 1914 the movie theater, which could also be used for stage performances, was called the Cines Palace . The architect Max Bischoff (1875 – after 1929) expanded it in 1919 to a cinema with 1740 seats for Ufa. It opened on September 18, 1919 with the premiere of the film Madame Dubarry by Ernst Lubitsch .
The hall had a rectangular shape and was simply designed. For the audience it was equipped with two- story proscenium boxes. The seats were arranged in a horseshoe shape and the stage wall was clad with faience panels. Carl Stahl-Urach (1879–1933) enlarged the hall in 1925 to 2165 seats. He also received a light organ . The Ufa-Palast was the largest cinema in Germany until the opening of the Ufa-Palast in Hamburg with 2200 seats in 1929.
In the following years the outer wall was used for advertising. First of all, light displays and large posters were installed. The facade was later given changing cladding. On the occasion of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Franz Pöcher , a private employee of Albert Speer , carried out an extensive redesign of the exterior cladding in a simplified classicist style.
The building was completely destroyed in an Allied air raid on Berlin on November 23, 1943. In 1957, the Zoo Palast was built on the same site as a successor .
World premieres (selection)
Weimar Republic
- September 18, 1919: Madame Dubarry
- The doll December 4, 1919:
- December 14, 1920: Anna Boleyn
- Kohlhiesel's daughters March 9, 1920:
- Sumurun September 1, 1920:
- October 29, 1920: The Golem as he came into the world
- April 14, 1921: The mountain cat
- October 22, 1921: The Indian tomb (1st part)
- November 19, 1921: The Indian tomb (part 2)
- November 13, 1922: Phantom
- The Grand Duke's finances January 7, 1924:
- February 14, 1924: The Nibelungs (1st part)
- April 26, 1924: The Nibelungs (Part 2)
- December 23, 1924: The last man
- November 16, 1925: Variety show
- October 14, 1926: Faust
- December 17, 1926: The holy mountain
- January 10, 1927: Metropolis
- January 24, 1927: A Dubarry from today
- March 12, 1929: asphalt
- August 27, 1929: The strangler
- October 15, 1929: Woman in the moon
- September 17, 1930: The gripper
- May 11, 1931: M
- August 31, 1931: Bombs on Monte Carlo
- November 26, 1931: The daredevil
- May 13, 1932: A great idea
- Quick August 8, 1932:
- October 12, 1932: The black hussar
- November 19, 1932: The white demon (drug)
- December 22, 1932: FP1 does not respond
1933 until the beginning of the war
- A song goes around the world May 9, 1933:
- August 15, 1933: A certain Mr. Gran
- The victory of faith December 1, 1933:
- refugees December 8, 1933:
- March 29, 1934: Gold
- March 12, 1935: Artists
- March 28, 1935: Triumph of will
- November 12, 1935: The man with the paw
- November 19, 1935: Frisian troubles
- December 30, 1935: Freedom Day! - Our armed forces
- January 23, 1936: Traumulus
- July 10, 1936: Women's regiment
- September 23, 1936: The beggar student
- October 16, 1936: City of Anatol
- December 23, 1936: Under a hot sky
- July 15, 1937: The man who was Sherlock Holmes
- August 20, 1937: Alarm in Beijing
- October 19, 1937: The broken jug
- December 21, 1937: Gasparone
- The mountain is calling January 6, 1938:
- February 11, 1938: The tiger of Esnapur
- February 26, 1938: The Indian tomb
- Five million are looking for an heir April 1, 1938:
- October 18, 1938: 13 chairs
- March 17, 1939: Water for Canitoga
- June 16, 1939: In the fight against the world enemy
- August 15, 1939: It was a glittering ball night
Second World War
- September 26, 1939: Robert Koch, the fighter against death
- March 20, 1940: Star of Rio
- September 24, 1940: Jud Suss
- November 28, 1940: The Eternal Jew
- Bismarck December 6, 1940:
- December 30, 1940: request concert
- February 14, 1941: Ohm Krüger
- October 23, 1941: homecoming
- The great King March 3, 1942:
- June 12, 1942: The great love
- Münchhausen March 5, 1943:
literature
- Gabriele Silbereisen: The Ufa-Palast in the exhibition halls at the Zoo Hardenbergstraße 29a – e . In: Helmut Engel (ed.): Geschistorlandschaft Berlin. Places and events. Vol. 1. Charlottenburg. Part 2. The new west . Nicolai, Berlin 1985, ISBN 978-3-87584-143-5 , pp. 275-298.
Web links
- Literature from and about Ufa-Palast am Zoo in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Former Ufa-Palast am Zoo at www.berlin.de
- Zoo Palast successor on kinokompendium.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ufa-Palast at www.zlb.de
- ↑ Regina Kusch: Flagship with spectacular cinema premieres. In: Calendar sheet (broadcast on DLF ). September 18, 2019, accessed September 17, 2019 .
- ↑ L'Estrange Fawcett: The World of Film. Amalthea-Verlag, Zurich, Leipzig, Vienna 1928, p. 122 (translated by C. Zell, supplemented by S. Walter Fischer)
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 22 ″ N , 13 ° 20 ′ 3 ″ E