Cafe Moscow

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View of Café Moscow from Karl-Marx-Allee / corner of Schillingstrasse, 2019.

The Café Moskau (actually: Restaurant Moskau , spelling: Cafe Moskau without Accent aigu ) is a listed building at Karl-Marx-Allee  34 / corner Schillingstrasse in the Berlin district of Mitte opposite the Kino International . In GDR times it contained a nationality restaurant with dishes from Russian cuisine and was a popular meeting place.

history

Café Moscow was planned in 1959 by the architects Josef Kaiser and Horst Bauer as a nationality restaurant with a total of 600 seats and built between 1961 and 1964. Its transparency, which was achieved through an open atrium construction , is striking . The entrance area to Karl-Marx-Allee is adorned by the 9-meter × 15-meter mosaic from the life of the peoples of the Soviet Union by the painter Bert Heller . The original size Sputnik , a gift from the Ambassador of the USSR , was installed at the opening . The name on the roof was designed by the graphic artist Klaus Wittkugel . In 1965 the sculptor Fritz Kühn created a 2.5 meter high steel fountain for the inner courtyard.

The building complex was structured as follows:

Basement

  • Night bar

ground floor

  • foyer
  • Atrium
  • gallery
  • Russian salon with ancillary salon Leningrad
  • Ukrainian salon
  • Natascha lounge
  • Stone bar with winter garden

First floor

  • foyer
  • Foyer bar
  • Salon Moscow
  • Salon Caucasus
  • Salon Riga

By the end of the 1980s, up to 160 employees worked in Café Moscow. In the years 1982 and 1987, under the design management of Gerd Pieper , major renovations were carried out, in which wooden cladding and wall decorations made of Meissen porcelain were added.

After the political change , the property was transferred to the Treuhandliegenschaftsgesellschaft (TLG Immobilien) and stood empty for a long time. After 2000, Café Moscow was revived for various events, cultural activities and as a meeting place. From 2002 to 2004 the WMF Club was entrusted with the gastronomic management, played the night bar with weekly club evenings and occasionally all the other bars . The gay and lesbian GMF party took place weekly on Sundays until they moved to the Week-End in the Haus des Reisens .

Essential parts of the successful film comedy Alles auf Zucker! (2004) were filmed on the premises of Café Moskau.

Nicolas Berggruen acquired the property from TLG Immobilien in 2007 and had it renovated for several million euros. In 2010, the renovated facade was awarded the Federal Prize for Crafts in Monument Preservation by the German Foundation for Monument Protection and the Central Association of German Crafts . Electricity and heating were integrated into the facade.

Ralf Regitz , the operator of the former Techno - Disco and today's venue E-Werk was then leased the largely original restored cafes. Club operations only took place occasionally. The building is rented to business customers for meetings, conventions and conferences.

The subsequent tenant Oliver Rübenkamp, ​​the managing director of Club E 4 at Potsdamer Platz , was once again able to offer regular club operations on weekends. At the end of September 2011, the 600 m² club rooms opened after a further renovation. From March 2012 Lisa ways and Katajun Fakhoury of the Berlin event agency was True values a new license issued for the Café Moskau.

gallery

  • The café at night, 2017.

  • General view, 1964.

  • Detailed view, 1967.

  • Sputnik at Café Moscow

  • Mosaic at the Moscow Cafe

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Café Moscow  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Schirmer: Federal Prize for Crafts in Monument Preservation 2010 in Berlin. ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: stadtentwicklung.berlin.de , November 10, 2010, (PDF; 4 p., 417 kB).
  2. ↑ Oliver Stade: Goslar residents renovate Berggruen property in Berlin and receive federal award. ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Goslarsche Zeitung , November 3, 2010.
  3. ^ Carline Mohr: New opening. Café Moscow is back in Berlin's nightlife. In: Berliner Morgenpost , September 23, 2011.
  4. ^ Ingeborg Ruthe: Café Moscow: Berggruen pulls the rip cord. In: Berliner Zeitung , March 2, 2012.

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 10 "  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 22"  E