Streits Cinema, Movie theater in central Hamburg, Germany
Streits Cinema was a cinema at Jungfernstieg 38 in central Hamburg, housed in the former ballroom of Streit's Hotel. Its last auditorium had 463 seats split between stalls and balcony, an 11.5 m by 5 m screen and a stage. Equipment included a 35 mm film projector, a 3D-capable video projector and a Dolby SRD/DTS sound system.
The cinema opened on 6 December 1956 in the converted ballroom of Streit's Hotel, founded by Christian Streit in 1837 at Jungfernstieg 38. Operator The Rank Organisation launched it with the British comedy Doktor Ahoi!. Sold to 20th Century Fox in 1975 and to UFA in 1980, it closed on 2 April 2013 after a rent dispute and was soon demolished.
Streit's hosted the Filmfest Hamburg from 1992 and the Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage from 1989. In 1995 the festival's first Douglas-Sirk-Preis went to Clint Eastwood at the cinema. Its bar with live piano music was popular beyond cinema-goers, and original-language films with subtitles were a programming staple.
The cinema stood at Jungfernstieg 38 on the Binnenalster, in a building converted from the ballroom of Streit's Hotel. It closed on 2 April 2013 and was demolished shortly afterwards; the premises now house a Rossmann drugstore that opened there in spring 2020. The auditorium had 463 seats in stalls and balcony, with an 11.5 m × 5 m screen and a stage.
The cinema closed on 2 April 2013, its last screening Sacha Gervasi's Hitchcock, and was demolished soon after. The building owner, the Reimers family, wanted offices and shops instead; mediation by Hamburg's culture authority failed. Since spring 2020 a Rossmann drugstore has occupied the former cinema space at Jungfernstieg 38.
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