Café Einstein Unter den Linden

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Café Einstein Unter den Linden

The Café Einstein on Unter den Linden is a known coffee house in Berlin district center on the boulevard Unter den Linden / corner Neustädtische Church Street between the Brandenburg Gate and the Humboldt University . Café Einstein occupies the ground floor of the Pietzsch building , an office and commercial building that was built between 1993 and 1995 according to a design by the architect Jürgen Sawade .

history

The café was opened in 1996 by the director, actor and gallery owner Gerald Uhlig . Dieter Wollstein , who was head of the protocol department of the People's Chamber until 1990 , was hired as head of the restaurant . The coffee house is considered a Berlin meeting place for politics and celebrities.

A gallery with photo exhibitions is attached to the café, with exhibitions and the like. a. by Helmut Newton , Udo Lindenberg , Helga Kneidl and Wim Wenders .

The political WebTV format Café Einstein of the news portal stern.de has been produced in Café Einstein since 2008 . The editors of the weekly newspaper Der Freitag have also met there every week since 2009 .

At the beginning of 2016, Uhlig sold Café Einstein Unter den Linden to a catering consortium.

literature

  • Gerald Uhlig : Berlin Melange. Stories and recipes from Café Einstein Unter den Linden. Collection Rolf Heyne 2006, ISBN 978-3899103250 .
  • Gerald Uhlig: The Cafe Einstein Unter den Linden. Nicolai-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3875840575 .
  • Christine Dankbar and Hartmut Augustin (eds.): Political places. Where the decisions are made. From Café Einstein to the Reichstag. Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3897731169 .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Coffee House Coalition. In: Cicero , November 2005 edition
  2. ^ Office and commercial building Haus Pietzsch, Unter den Linden 42. Description in the building database of the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development.
  3. ^ Claudius Seidel: The gestures and the guests. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , March 31, 2013, p. 44
  4. ↑ Meeting points for politics around the parliamentary district. ( Memento of August 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Blickpunkt Bundestag , issue 04/2006
  5. ↑ The world as a guest in a coffee house. In: Die Welt , November 25, 2006
  6. ↑ Lothar Heinke : Happy Birthday, Einstein! In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 21, 2016, accessed March 22, 2016 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '1.9 "  N , 13 ° 23' 9.4"  E