Cineplex Alhambra

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Cineplex Alhambra on the corner of Seestrasse and Müllerstrasse

The Cineplex Alhambra is a cinema in the Berlin district of Berlin-Wedding . The cinema goes back to a previous building from 1916 and is the last of the once numerous cinemas on Müllerstrasse in Wedding. Today's multiplex cinema at this location was built between 1999 and 2002. It has 1,500 seats and seven screens.

history

Alhambra Cinema 1925

From 1912, silent films were shown in the back room of the Sachon garden bar in Wedding . In 1916 the Wegenstein family built their own cinema building under the name Apollo on the site of the Sachon restaurant . In 1921 the Wegensteins expanded the cinema and renamed it the Alhambra. At that time there were still a few dance halls and various cafes at the intersection, the street corner was a center of night life.

The cinema was badly destroyed in the Second World War . In 1953 the remains were torn down and a new building was built according to plans by Hans Bielenberg and Helmut Ollk . Both cinemas each had a hall with a screen. The 1953 cinema had 400 seats and a small concert platform. In 1999 the building was demolished again to make way for a modern seven-screen multiplex cinema called the Alhambra Cine-Eck . The owner at the time financed the 14 million DM new building with a loan that he was unable to cover in the long term.

At times the cinema had an offshoot in the nearby Triftstraße , the Alhambra too , which closed again as part of the new construction of the old Alhambra.

Until 1998 the cinema was owned by the Wegenstein family. The last Wegenstein to own the cinema, Leopold Wegenstein, took over the Alhambra in 1981. However, due to the long-term consequences of the new multiplex building, he had to file for bankruptcy in 2003 and sell the cinema. In 2004 the cinema came under compulsory administration, in 2008 it was finally foreclosed. To the movies GmbH from Berlin-Neukölln has been the operator since 2005 and is organized in the Cineplex group. She now owns the building too. Given the population structure of the Wedding, the cinema also regularly shows Turkish and Arabic films in the original version.

Of the 45 cinemas in Wedding, the Alhambra is the last surviving commercial cinema. In the Center Français de Berlin there is another cinema, the City Kino Wedding , which is also used for other events due to its large stage.

building

The cinema is located on the corner of Müllerstraße and Seestraße , the two streets with the highest traffic in the district. The cinema has seven screens spread over four floors. Two of the halls have a glass wall facing the project room to make the cinema technology visible. The cinema has its own kitchen and various restaurants.

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  1. ↑ a b Matthias Oloew: The Alhambra is back , Der Tagesspiegel 23 May 2002
  2. ^ A b Jan Oberländer: "Alhambra" under the hammer , Der Tagesspiegel October 7, 2010
  3. ↑ Christoph Schaffelder Müllerstrasse: The “Ku'damm des Nordens” , Weddingweiser October 24, 2014
  4. ↑ a b Wolfgang W. Timmler: Late performance with subway thunder . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 11, 1999, ISSN  0944-5560 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  5. ↑ a b c d e Gerhild HM Komander: The Wedding: on the way from red to colored, Berlin Story Verlag, 2006 ISBN 3-929829-38-X p. 117
  6. ↑ a b c d Sabine Flatau: Cinema owner wants Alhambra back , Berliner Morgenpost October 8, 2008
  7. ↑ City Kino Wedding returns to the Center Francais . In: Berlin Week . 5th January 2015.

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 2.1 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 3.9 ″  E