Coffee burger
The Kaffee Burger is an artist's bar and club in Torstrasse in Berlin-Mitte .
history
A restaurant has existed on the site since 1890. In 1936 it was taken over by the Burger family and given its current name. The family continued to run it as a private company in the GDR . From the 1970s onwards, the Kaffee Burger developed into a meeting place for East Berlin's cultural scene, to which the nearby Volksbühne played a major role. Among others, Thomas Brasch , Adolf Endler , Thomas Körner , Heiner Müller , Ulrich Plenzdorf , Klaus Schlesinger , Katharina Thalbach , Bettina Wegner and other artists, intellectuals and journalists frequented there at that time . The authorities were uncomfortable with this scene, which is why they arranged for a temporary closure in 1979 - nominally for renovation. For a long time this meant the end of the burger as an artist bar.
In 1999 Uta Burger handed the restaurant over to Karl-Heinz Heymann , Bert Papenfuß-Gorek and Uwe Schilling . The new opening took place on November 10, 1999. The restaurant was only slightly changed, essentially the furnishings from GDR times were retained.
The burger was known nationwide held by every 14 days, including by Wladimir Kaminer organized, Russendisko . There is a program almost every day, including readings by the Reformbühne Heim & Welt , the Verbrecher Verlag (until 2004) and other more or less well-known authors. There are also concerts, lectures and roundtables such as Radio Hochsee . After the program there are dance events, for which the burger bar next door has also been offering additional space, especially on weekends, since 2001.
On February 13, 2008, Madonna rented the burger bar to celebrate her world premiere as a director.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 43 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 30" E