Union Theater Lichtspiele
The Union Theater plays of light (UT-Cinema / Theater Union or Union-air theater) were a movie theater at the Waisenhausstraße 21-22 in Dresden, 1911 by Martin Pietzsch -style reform architecture was built. When it was built, it was the largest movie theater in Dresden and the first cinema with a horseshoe-shaped floor plan and dynamic lighting architecture. The demolition of the house, which was little damaged in World War II, was “ an example of the refusal to allow makeshift repairs, even if long-term solutions were only possible in the distant future. "
history
Martin Pietzsch, a representative of reform architecture, built this cinema palace in 1911. From 1930 to February 4, 1945 the house was managed by Max Plötner. On February 13, 1945 slightly damaged, was intended to expand the ruins of the UT-cinema as a large cinema. However, this was rejected by the central planning office and the council of the district . The movie theater was named as one of twelve objects for clearing large areas in the months of March to December 1950. The aim was to recover 300 tons of scrap and 200 tons of useful iron . In 1954, the Dresden City Planning Office appealed to the fact that “expert groups” were of the opinion that investments in the ruins were not economically viable. In 1964 the building was demolished.
description
Seven wide double doors led to the auditorium . The entrance area was “ crowned with colored glass panels that were translucent on both sides and illuminated by light bulbs. “The auditorium had stalls and rank , similar to a theater . There were 750 places in the stalls and 250 places in the tier and in prosceniums . The chairs were black with light green coverings. 200 pendulums made of light bulbs - kept in green - illuminated the rank boxes . The floor plan was horseshoe-shaped and dynamic . 14 slender pillars (" shafts ") were arranged in a horseshoe shape according to the floor plan. Ribbons of light hung with gold beads were fixed in the middle of the pillars . The light bands formed a light capital at the top of the pillars . The green luminous bodies on the rank boxes and the gold-colored luminous bodies on the pillars resulted in an " electric [s] play of light [in] green-gold. “The green-gold color scheme of the light fittings harmonized with the black-green-gold color scheme of the hall. The pillars supported a ceiling that was 10 m high and had " rich lines ". Three circumferential light strings made of 600 light bulbs hung with glass beads were integrated into the ceiling and created an extraordinary spatial and light experience. Particularly noteworthy was the " suction-like, stepped " proscenium frame and the fact that jewelry had been completely omitted. The geometrical , crystal-like plastering , similar to stalactites , gave the wall surface a structure.
See also
literature
- Matthias Lerm: Farewell to old Dresden - Loss of historical building fabric after 1945 . Forum Verlag, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-86151-047-2 .
- Ulrich Hübner et al .: Symbol and truthfulness. Reform architecture in Dresden. Verlag der Kunst Dresden Ingwert Paulsen jun., Husum, 2005. ISBN 3-86530-068-5
- Jürgen Helfricht , G. Ackermann: Longing for the old Dresden. 1st edition, Verlag- und Publizistikhaus Dresden, Dresden 2005.
- Rolf-Peter Baacke: Movie theater architecture in Germany. Publishing house Fröhlich & Kaufmann GmbH, Berlin 1982.
- Blaum: The new movie theater in Dresden. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung, Volume 47, 1913, No. 63 (from August 6, 1913), p. 553.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hübner et al., P. 20
- ↑ Lerm, p. 127
- ^ Ruins of the UT-Lichtspiele Dresden, Waisenhausstr. 22 (photo by Walter Möbius, 1954) (accessed December 25, 2017)
- ↑ Lerm, p. 58 [soil socialism] p. 238 [footnote 28 to p. 58]
- ↑ Lerm, p. 127 [UT-Kino, Waisenhausstraße]
- ↑ a b c Blaum, p. 553
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '47.6 " N , 13 ° 44' 6.8" E