Walter Jonigkeit
Walter Jonigkeit (born April 24, 1907 ; † December 25, 2009 ) was a German cinema operator.
Career
Jonigkeit began his career as a film salesman. In 1932 he founded the Kino Unter den Linden cinema in Berlin , which he made the city's first repertory film theater. He was one of the first cinema operators in Germany to announce the films from his cinemas in programs. In 1937, the cinema Die crank was added in Charlottenburg . Further cinemas in Munich and Hamburg followed.
After the end of the Second World War, he set up the Delphi Filmpalast in the ruins of a former dance palace , which opened in 1949 with the largest screen in Berlin and the most modern technical equipment. Between 1956 and 1959 he also ran the open-air cinema in the Waldbühne . In the late 1960s he took over the Hamburg Savoy Film Theater .
In 1988 Jonigkeit was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his special services to the film industry .
Web links
- Der Kino-Patriarch appeared in: Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, April 23, 2007
- 100 years of Walter Jonigkeit in the Delphi Filmpalast. In: press release. District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, April 20, 2007, accessed on August 17, 2016 .
- Thomas Til Radevagen: Delphi owner Walter Jonigkeit is Berlin's oldest active cinema operator - he founded a film art house as early as 1932. Glory and misery of the flicker box. Berliner Zeitung , April 24, 1997, accessed on August 17, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Conrad: Filmpalast: boss of the “Delphi” died at the age of 102. In: tagesspiegel.de. January 5, 2010, accessed September 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Gerhard Witte: Hamburg's cinema jewel, the Savoy, has been reopened. In: www.in70mm.com. December 21, 2018, accessed April 13, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Joniness, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cinema operator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1907 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 2009 |