Unionkino
The Unionkino in Erfurt was a cinema in the Ilversgehofen district , Magdeburger Allee 144–146 / Stollbergstrasse, which existed as a building from 1929 to 1998.
history
The builder of the Union cinema was Karl Liebrich, who in 1922 owned the Alhambra cinema with 1200 seats, the Kammer-Lichtspiele with 384 seats and the Angertheater with 1000 seats in Erfurt . With Gustav Schneider he also ran three cinemas in Weimar: the Zentral-Palast (Hummelstraße 4) with 1,100 seats, Scherffs Lichtspiele (Marktstraße 20) with 650 seats and the Kammerlichtspiele (Marienstraße 1) with 400 seats.
Liebrich and Schneider broke new ground with the Unionkino. On the one hand, the location was far away from the center in the Erfurt district of Ilversgehofen , which at the time was characterized by industry and was inhabited by many working class families. On the other hand, the planning of the cinema specialist Carl Fugmann took place in a radically modern style, which with its striking expressionist architecture refers to Dutch models and the Weimar Bauhaus . It was characterized by its asymmetrical design with partially penetrating structures, cornices and neon signs , flat roofs and horizontal ribbon windows. After the construction work had already started in April 1929, the building permit followed on May 12, 1929 and the opening on September 7, 1929. The house had over 900 seats. It was popularly referred to as "Unne".
After the GDR was founded , it operated as the “Theater of Youth”. After the fall of the Wall, it was sold to Ufa by the Treuhandanstalt in 1991 together with 15 other Thuringian cinemas . In March 1998 it was demolished. On the site, which then lay fallow for a long time, the area began to be re-usable in 2019 with new residential developments by the Frankfurt non-profit settlement .
Literature and Sources
- Steffen Raßloff : Cinemas in the Weimar Republic on erfurt-web.de (apparently first published in: Thüringer Allgemeine from December 27, 2008)
- Mark Escherich: Urban Self-Image and Structural Representation. Architecture and urban development in Erfurt 1918–1933. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86732-062-7 .
- Holger Wetzel: Apartments and shops are being built on the “Unne” wasteland in Ilversgehofen. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , Erfurt edition, from January 15, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://filmtheater.square7.ch/wiki/index.php?title=Erfurt_Kammer-Lichtspiele
- ↑ The cinematograph No. 989: Mr. Karl Lieberich, owner and director of the Alhambra Erfurt (1200 seats) has now also acquired the Angerlichtspiele Erfurt (1000 seats). January 31, 1926
- ↑ http://filmtheater.square7.ch/wiki/index.php?title=Erfurt_Anger_Filmpalast
- ↑ http://filmtheater.square7.ch/wiki/index.php?title=Weimar_Theater_des_Friedens,_Zentral-Palast
- ↑ http://filmtheater.square7.ch/wiki/index.php?title=Weimar_Stern-Lichtspiele,_Scherffs_Lichtspielhaus,_Deutsche_Lichtspiele
- ↑ http://filmtheater.square7.ch/wiki/index.php?title=Weimar_Kammerlichtspiele,_Reform-Lichtspiele
- ↑ http://filmtheater.square7.ch/wiki/index.php?title=Erfurt_Union-Kino
- ^ Kai-Uwe Schellenberg, StA. Erfurt, cit. according to Wetzel 2016
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 54.1 ″ N , 11 ° 1 ′ 37 ″ E