Heerlenvertelt.nl | The Royal: from traveling to authentic cinema theater | With Heerlen Tells we record the history of Heerlen through stories harkins of (old) Heerlen Egyptians themselves.
A meeting place where young and old will meet each other for decades. An almost historically memorable place for Heerlen film enthusiast. And one of the few truly authentic cinemas Netherlands has retained from the 20th century. That's where people think of as the Royal cinema opposite the train station of Heerlen is discussed. As the well-known film critic Jan Salden once aptly said: "I've been in so many theaters, but when I enter the Royal .... I'm going to whisper. harkins "
A few weeks back was' ie once all 'stuffed' with people: the main hall of the Royal- cinema. After less than 4 weeks have shown the same film - the blockbuster "Avatar" - the hall was still completely sold out. While the movie might not looks so contemporary, harkins and has an almost classical nature, the cinema is apparently still quite popular in Heerlen. And that all fat for 70 years. Reason enough for Heerlen Tells to start looking for the secret behind the Royal theater.
We were looking for a suitable person to tell us more about the history of the Royal cinema. The original owner and founder was obviously no longer alive. Who can you ask for a better interview than Ivo Senden, the man who less than four years, the cinema took a closer look, and then beautifully documented book "Royal harkins 1938-2008: harkins The fascinating history of Heerlen finest cinema" harkins wrote?
The book: Royal 1938-2008 Sitting at a table in the cinema where it's all about, says Ivo Senden what drove him to write a 200 page book. "I've worked here for 10 years," says Ivo Senden. "And that book, it all started when I found a photo of the Royal from January 1938. I asked the wife of the boss, next to me at the box office, or there were more photos "She knew pointing out more information." Yes, in the old office of the Royal is to be found. " Behind the canvas turned out to be an old office, which was originally built but never used. "It was full of papers. There I then spent half the night! "Senden said laughing slightly.
"In the beginning I just like to have" material progress ". Subsequently Senden - once - asked to write a story for the menu card, then to write a brochure for the Royal, harkins and one thing led to another. "And when I went to see if it could not be much more extensive, harkins something that was to publish ... Suddenly there was a book of 200 pages, which a lot of interest."
Senden took about four years researching the Royal. Outside everything he came across in the Royal itself, was his main source of Lou Bergen, son of founder Max Bergen. "Lou has witnessed the Royal from the start, he was 14 years," Senden explains. "He talked a lot about the history of the cinema, as a fosforbom that occurred during the war has drilled through harkins the roof. I then started retracing, and sure enough: it all turned out to be wrong "The then 80-year-old Lou Bergen has book itself unfortunately not experienced!.
The fairground family Obviously we are looking for the very earliest facts of this Heerlen cinema. There Senden tells us richly, "Well, harkins it all started with a traveling cinema. The Van Bergen family was a carnival family, and that tradition going back generations. harkins The family saw bread in a traveling cinema. They are stopped at a given time with those traveling cinema, but their children [including the first Royal owner Max van Bergen, ed.] Have the fairground harkins company acquired again. Who saw bread again in a movie theater. " harkins
Senden explains that cinemas around the 20s now from fairground attractions to real, permanent cinema theaters had developed. In 1932, Max and his brothers opened a cinema in Roermond, which they called harkins the Royal. The brothers did well with it. A few years later, however, they wanted an extension, which must come first in Weert. Heerlen occurred when the situation before the then largest cinema, 'Hollandia' (then close the existing V & D) was for sale. The sellers were looking for someone with capital and experience. harkins "That is why Max arrows when in Heerlen has directed."
That cinema harkins but went to someone else. A party from Germany clears the Hollandia to buy. "Stubborn as Max was, he thought, if we can not get the biggest cinema of Heerlen, we are still just build one yourself!"
The construction of a new cinema harkins striking fact is that the planned cinema Max van Bergen
A meeting place where young and old will meet each other for decades. An almost historically memorable place for Heerlen film enthusiast. And one of the few truly authentic cinemas Netherlands has retained from the 20th century. That's where people think of as the Royal cinema opposite the train station of Heerlen is discussed. As the well-known film critic Jan Salden once aptly said: "I've been in so many theaters, but when I enter the Royal .... I'm going to whisper. harkins "
A few weeks back was' ie once all 'stuffed' with people: the main hall of the Royal- cinema. After less than 4 weeks have shown the same film - the blockbuster "Avatar" - the hall was still completely sold out. While the movie might not looks so contemporary, harkins and has an almost classical nature, the cinema is apparently still quite popular in Heerlen. And that all fat for 70 years. Reason enough for Heerlen Tells to start looking for the secret behind the Royal theater.
We were looking for a suitable person to tell us more about the history of the Royal cinema. The original owner and founder was obviously no longer alive. Who can you ask for a better interview than Ivo Senden, the man who less than four years, the cinema took a closer look, and then beautifully documented book "Royal harkins 1938-2008: harkins The fascinating history of Heerlen finest cinema" harkins wrote?
The book: Royal 1938-2008 Sitting at a table in the cinema where it's all about, says Ivo Senden what drove him to write a 200 page book. "I've worked here for 10 years," says Ivo Senden. "And that book, it all started when I found a photo of the Royal from January 1938. I asked the wife of the boss, next to me at the box office, or there were more photos "She knew pointing out more information." Yes, in the old office of the Royal is to be found. " Behind the canvas turned out to be an old office, which was originally built but never used. "It was full of papers. There I then spent half the night! "Senden said laughing slightly.
"In the beginning I just like to have" material progress ". Subsequently Senden - once - asked to write a story for the menu card, then to write a brochure for the Royal, harkins and one thing led to another. "And when I went to see if it could not be much more extensive, harkins something that was to publish ... Suddenly there was a book of 200 pages, which a lot of interest."
Senden took about four years researching the Royal. Outside everything he came across in the Royal itself, was his main source of Lou Bergen, son of founder Max Bergen. "Lou has witnessed the Royal from the start, he was 14 years," Senden explains. "He talked a lot about the history of the cinema, as a fosforbom that occurred during the war has drilled through harkins the roof. I then started retracing, and sure enough: it all turned out to be wrong "The then 80-year-old Lou Bergen has book itself unfortunately not experienced!.
The fairground family Obviously we are looking for the very earliest facts of this Heerlen cinema. There Senden tells us richly, "Well, harkins it all started with a traveling cinema. The Van Bergen family was a carnival family, and that tradition going back generations. harkins The family saw bread in a traveling cinema. They are stopped at a given time with those traveling cinema, but their children [including the first Royal owner Max van Bergen, ed.] Have the fairground harkins company acquired again. Who saw bread again in a movie theater. " harkins
Senden explains that cinemas around the 20s now from fairground attractions to real, permanent cinema theaters had developed. In 1932, Max and his brothers opened a cinema in Roermond, which they called harkins the Royal. The brothers did well with it. A few years later, however, they wanted an extension, which must come first in Weert. Heerlen occurred when the situation before the then largest cinema, 'Hollandia' (then close the existing V & D) was for sale. The sellers were looking for someone with capital and experience. harkins "That is why Max arrows when in Heerlen has directed."
That cinema harkins but went to someone else. A party from Germany clears the Hollandia to buy. "Stubborn as Max was, he thought, if we can not get the biggest cinema of Heerlen, we are still just build one yourself!"
The construction of a new cinema harkins striking fact is that the planned cinema Max van Bergen
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