MOIN Film Fund mourns the death of Lydia Matern-Jansen

07.12.2021 | Hamburg cinema operator

Hamburg has lost a great cinema maker: On Monday, 29.11.21, Lydia Matern-Jansen, CEO of the Blankeneser Kino and the Elbe Filmtheater for many years, passed away after a short, serious illness.

Together with her husband Hans-Peter and their two children Noa and Nick, she also ran four other cinemas in Film-Norden: the Burg Filmtheater on Fehmarn, the Astra Filmtheater in Plön and the Studio-Kino and Koralle in Hamburg.

Helge Albers, CEO of MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein: "In Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the Jansen family stands for art-house cinemas with passion. The Elbe Filmtheater and the Blankeneser Kino in particular - run by Lydia Matern-Jansen for decades - have reliably enchanted cinema-goers of all ages in the west of Hamburg. The untimely death of Lydia Matern-Jansen has left a huge gap in the North German cinema landscape. We are shocked and deeply saddened. Our condolences go out to her relatives, especially her husband Hans-Peter, her children Nick and Noa and her sister, the film producer Linda Matern."

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