Ernst Huhn (1894–1964) was a German architect who first rebuilt and later designed cinemas, theatres and inns, including the

Schauspielhaus Bad Godesberg The Schauspielhaus Bad Godesberg (formerly "Kammerspiele Bad Godesberg") is the largest theatre in the city of Bonn and the first new theatre building in the Federal Republic of Germany in the post-war period.Felix Gutschmidt: Godesberger Kammer ...

, Germany's first new theatre after the Second World War

Life

Huhn was one of the close collaborators of the architect

Wilhelm Kreis Wilhelm Kreis (17 March 1873 – 13 August 1955) was a prominent German architect and professor of architecture, active through four political systems in German history: the Wilhelmine era, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the founda ...

for a long time during his Düsseldorf years (1908–1926). From the end of the 1920s, Huhn emerged, especially in the area of the Rhineland, as an architect for cinema and theatre buildings as well as inns. He worked in Düsseldorf and was a member of the

Association of German Architects The Association of German Architects (German: ''Bund Deutscher Architekten'', BDA) is an association of architects founded in 1903 in Germany. It publishes the bimonthly magazine ''der architekt''. The BDA has over 5,000 members. In 1995, it fo ...

. He reported on some of his buildings in the trade journal '.

Projects

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* 1926: Ice pavilion at the GeSoLei exhibition in Düsseldorf * 1928: Odeon cinema, rebuilding a ball room nn Düsseldorf-

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* 1928: Nationaltheater cinema, rebuilding the Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle in Viersen, Heierstraße 2 * 1935: Apollo-Theater (Siegen) * 1936: Capitol cinema in Bielefeld. * 1936: Rebuilding hotel in Cologne. * 1949: Modernising Europa-Palast cinema in Düsseldorf, Graf-Adolf-Straße (location of the until 1938) * 1949: Reconstruction of Modernes Theater (UFA cinema)“ in Wuppertal * 1950: Reconstruction of the Apollo-Theater in Düsseldorf (with more than 3000 seats) * 1951: Reconstruction of Viktoria-Theater cinema in

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* 1951–1952:

, Germany's first new theatre after the Second World War * 1953:

Theater am Aegi The Theater am Aegi is an event venue on Aegidientorplatz square in Hannover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Like the square, it is often referred to as Aegi. The building was opened in 1953 mainly as a cinema, with a versatile stage also ...

in Hanover (together with

Hans Klüppelberg Hans Klüppelberg (25 May 1904 – 31 May 1962) was a German architect. Friedrich Lindau: ''Klüppelberg, Hans'', in ders.: ''Hannover. Wiederaufbau und Zerstörung. Die Stadt im Umgang mit ihrer bauhistorischen Identität'', 2., überarbeitete ...

and

Gerd Lichtenhahn Gerd Otto Lichtenhahn (15 January 1910 – 21 August 1964) was a German architect and member of the Association of German Architects (BDA). Life and realisations Born in Essen, Lichtenhahn was the son of the architect Karl August Lichtenhahn, w ...

) * 1954: Stadttheater Remscheid * 1954: Atlantis-Palast cinema in Duisburg- Marxloh, Weseler Straße 66 * 1954–1956:

Opernhaus Düsseldorf Opernhaus Düsseldorf ( en, Düsseldorf Opera House) is a venue and administrative headquarters of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The original opera house was constructed between 1873 and 1875 as the Stadttheater Düsseldorf, designed by Ernst Gie ...

(together with

Julius Schulte-Frohlinde Julius Schulte-Frohlinde (1894 - 1968) was one of Adolf Hitler's architects. Life Schulte-Frohlinde was trained by Paul Bonatz and was part of his Stuttgart school. On the recommendation of Albert Speer, in 1934 Schulte-Frohlinde went to work ...

and

Paul Bonatz Paul Bonatz (6 December 1877 – 20 December 1956) was a German architect, member of the Stuttgart School and professor at the technical university in that city during part of World War II, and from 1954 until his death. He worked in many styl ...

) * 1955: Kino Ufa-Palast in Cologne, Hohenstaufenring * around 1960: Wohn- und Geschäftshaus with cinema in Cologne, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 30–32 * until 1963: Studiohaus of Firma

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in Düsseldorf, Königsallee / Graf-Adolf-Straße (together with Günter Huhn)''Rosenthal Studio B''. In ', issue 8/1964

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''Huhn, Ernst''
, Datenblatt im Portal ''nrw-architekturdatenbank.tu-dortmund.de'' (Architecture data bank of the

Technical University of Dortmund TU Dortmund University (german: Technische Universität Dortmund) is a technical university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 35,000 students, and over 6,000 staff including 300 professors, offering around 80 Bachelor's an ...

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