List of cinemas in Berlin-Friedenau

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The list of cinemas in Berlin-Friedenau gives an overview of all cinemas that have existed in today's Berlin district of Friedenau and still exist today. The list was built according to information from research in the Kino-Wiki and linked to connections with Berlin's cinema history from further historical and current references. It reflects the status of the film screening facilities that have ever existed in Berlin as well as the situation in January 2020. According to this, there are 92 venues in Berlin, which means first place in Germany, followed by Munich (38), Hamburg (28), Dresden (18) as well as Cologne and Stuttgart (17 each). At the same time, this compilation is part of the lists of all Berlin cinemas .

Name / location address Duration Description possibly picture
Baby movie theater

( Location )

Stubenrauchstrasse 21 1952-1969 The baby movie theater with its 156 seats existed from 1952 to 1968/1969. Today there is a café on the ground floor of the corner building.
Biophone (BTL)

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Rheinstrasse 14 1909-1931 From 1909 to 1932 there was a 300-seat cinema theater at Rheinstrasse 14. It was then converted into a retail store. There is a supermarket on the ground floor of the successor building.
Cinema on Walter-Schreiber-Platz (Corso, Kolibri, Friedenauer Lichtspiele)

( Location )

Bundesallee 111 since 1911
Entry ticket to Cinema Bundesallee 111
The film tradition on Bundesallee / corner of Walther-Schreiber-Platz has existed since 1919 - at that time it was still known as "Colibri" as a silent film cinema. Since 1997 the cinema has been operated as a so-called “one-dollar cinema”, which means that films are shown that are about to be released on video. [1]

The cinema is operated by To the movies Filmverleih- und Filmtheaterbetriebs GmbH from Kleinmachnow with the managing directors Günther Mertins and Peter Sundarp as part of the Cineplex group.

Cosima movie theater

( Location )

Sieglindestraße 10 since 1935
Friedenau Sieglindestraße Cosima-Filmtheater.jpg
In 1935 the Cosima-Filmtheater opened at today's Varziner Platz. It survived the Second World War without damage and was able to quickly continue gaming operations. Since its opening, it has been operated by W. Schönstedt (Polygon-Lichtspiel-Betriebe) together with the Wilmersdorfer Bundesplatz-Studio.
Hohenzollern light plays

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Handjerystrasse 64 1912-1943
Berlin-Friedenau Hohenzollern-Lichtspiele, Handjerystraße 64
The Hohenzollern-Lichtspiele opened in 1912 at Handjerystraße 64 (with access from Rheinstraße 21) as the largest cinema in Friedenau with 600 seats. Today there is a post-war residential building from the 1960s. The cinema was in the courtyard and closed around 1943.
Parade lights

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Southwest Parade 64 1956-1973
Little theater
The Korso-Lichtspiele opened in 1956 in the courtyard of the Südwestkorso 64 building. It was in operation until 1973, and in 1973 the private “Small Theater” also moved into the rooms. As a chamber theater, it now has 99 seats and a bar in the theater hall. The corner house on Südwestkorso 64 / Taunusstraße 18 was built by Franz Helding in 1910–1911. It is a listed building .
Kronen Filmtheater (World Theater)

( Location )

Rheinstrasse 65 1907-1969 In 1916 Alfred Röder opened the Kronen-Lichtspiele, but cinematographic screenings had already taken place in this house before that. The cinema was along Dickhardtstrasse, while the entrance was at 65 Rheinstrasse. After the cinema was closed in 1969, a supermarket moved in, and one could still be found there until 2006. Then a restaurant moved in that uses the hall as a guest room.
Pfalzburg light plays

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Kaiserallee 72 (today: Bundesallee 72) 1912-1915 The Pfalzburg Lichtspiele with 155 seats was opened in 1912 at the corner of Bachestraße 13 in what was then Kaiserallee 72. The cinema only existed until 1915. There is a residential building with a shop on the ground floor.
Rheinschloß film theater

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Rheinstrasse 60 1912-1975 At Rheinstrasse 60 there was originally the Rheinschloß restaurant and hotel, in whose hall the Rheinschloß-Lichtspiele were opened in 1912. The cinema was run by the Borghard family until it closed in 1974. Then in 1975 an Aldi supermarket moved into the premises, which moved out in 2014. There is an organic market there, after the former cinema hall was extensively restored.
Roxy Palace Friedenau

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Hauptstrasse 78/79 1929-1973
The Roxy Palace
The building of the Roxy Palace, which opened in 1929 as a steel frame construction, is located in Hauptstrasse 78/79. It was built as an office and commercial building (left part of the building) with an adjoining movie theater (right part with 1106 seats). The house is considered the main work of New Objectivity by the architect Martin Punitzer . The horizontally running windows of the building symbolize film strips. The building has been a listed building since 1988 .

The cinema opened on October 31, 1929 with the Berlin premiere of the silent film Andreas Hofer . From 1947 the cinema is said to have served as a department store for four years. The building, which was partially destroyed in World War II, was rebuilt in 1951 according to plans by the Stuttgart architect Paul Stohrer together with Bruno Meltendorf. The number of seats was reduced from the original 1106 to 998. The original facade design was restored in 1987, and a carpet shop belonging to the Gota retail chain moved into the cinema, which closed again in 2009. An organic food market has been located in the entrance area and on the parquet floor of the former cinema hall since June 2011.

The last entry as a cinema can be found in the Berlin telephone directory for 1973; in 1974 there is no entry. In 1975 the Roxy Palace was converted into a club and used for rock concerts. As a cinema, the Roxy Palace was closed in 1973. In 1986, three people were killed in the building in the bomb attack on the “ La Belle ” nightclub .

Thalia (Friedenauer Lichtspiele, Rheineck, KammerLichtspiele)

( Location )

Bundesallee 102 (formerly: Kaiserallee 102) 1912-1958 In 1912 the Kammerlichtspiele opened opposite the “Rheineck” restaurant in what was then Kaiserallee 102. In 1918 it was renamed Rheineck-Lichtspiele, and in 1925 Thalia-Lichtspiele. In the 1950s the Thalia became a daytime cinema, but then closed in 1958. In 1959 it was demolished for the expansion of the Held department store (later: Hertie). This department store closed in 2003 and demolished in 2005. Today the Schloss-Straßen-Center shopping center is located there .

See also

literature

  • Sylvaine Hänsel, Angelika Schmitt (eds.): Cinema architecture in Berlin 1895–1995 . Reimer, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-496-01129-7 .

Web links

The Kino Wiki is currently hosted on filmtheater.square7.ch . The data was compiled from the special address books Reichskino Adressbuch (Verlag Lichtbühne) and Kinoadressbuch (Verlag Max Mattisson) as well as the cinema list (1907–1910) of the first specialist journal for all of the art of photography, Der Kinematograph . The project of the Berlin cinemas is based on this data and supplements regional references.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kino-Wiki main page, accessed on January 18, 2020. Kinowiki deals with the history of movie theaters in Germany and tries to collect all information about movie theaters and movie theaters in Germany. It is sorted according to federal states and cities. Everyone is called upon to supplement the data or correct errors.
  2. ↑ The breakdown by districts and districts is based on the district reform of 2001.
  3. ^ Stefan Strauss: Film? Running. Publication in the Berliner Zeitung , March 27, 2017, p. 13.