Cosmos (Berlin)
The Kosmos was a large cinema on Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin's Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district . It was inaugurated on October 5, 1962 and was one of the largest cinemas in the GDR . It was used as a premiere cinema until 1989. After the fall of the Wall , it was taken over by UFA , which had the cinema converted into a multiplex cinema for 3400 viewers in 1996 . In 2005, the cinema in Kosmos was stopped by the UFA. The house has been used as an event center since 2006.
Planning and architecture
The cinema - like the nearby Kino International - was planned in 1959 by the architects Josef Kaiser and Heinz Aust as a premiere and was built between 1960 and 1962 by VEB Hochbau Friedrichshain at 131 Karl-Marx-Allee. In its function as a cultural building, the cinema building was part of the plan of the avenue from the beginning, but not in the form of the structure and the facade design, which differ significantly from the surrounding buildings on Karl-Marx-Allee - these are in the late Stalinist confectioner style held while the design of the cosmos with its smooth facade and the combination of straight and curved surfaces of the utilization of prestressed concrete with at the same time to West Berlin incurred Congress Hall can be compared.
The cinema, surrounded by green spaces, is set back thirteen meters from the street, which makes the building stand out from the street. The visitor enters the cinema through a single-storey porch with a foyer and ancillary rooms, which is glazed on the front wall and has a rectangular floor plan. The main building, on the other hand, has an egg-shaped floor plan , with the more pointed side facing the avenue. The outer shape thus takes up the inner shape of the main hall, which offers 1001 seats. The non-glazed outer surfaces of the foyer are covered with light-colored ceramic tiles with a silicate glaze .
Cosmos, film history and special uses
The Kosmos cinema served as the GDR's premiere cinema until 1989. Numerous DEFA films premiered here, including the post-war film Karbid und Sauerampfer in 1963 , the 1965 anti-war film Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt , the 1968 Becher film Farewell , in which Walter Ulbricht angrily left the screening, and in 1973 the most successful DEFA film Die Legend of Paul and Paula - with 20 minutes of frenetic applause.
In the 1970s, the large cinema hall also served as a venue for youth consecration celebrations for pupils in many Berlin schools .
Todays use
Since March 2006 the house has been used as an event center for conferences, evening events, special cinema screenings and as a theater. For example, the state party conference of the Berlin SPD took place there in 2006 , at which Klaus Wowereit was nominated as the top candidate for the elections to the House of Representatives , Tokio Hotel shot the music video for their title The last day , Chris de Burgh appeared, and the Film When the Sea Disappeared had its German premiere . In 2007 the state delegates' conference was held by Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Berlin, there was a casting for the ProSieben show Popstars , the party-affiliated youth association of LINKEN held its founding conference there and the club members of the 1.FC Union Berlin football club met for the annual meeting. In 2008, the Federal Ministry of Economics held the Founders' Congress Multimedia , Apple presented the post-production software Final Cut Pro and the software company IDS Scheer invited its users to Aris Process World 2008.
literature
- Joachim Schulz, Werner Gräbner: Architectural Guide GDR: Berlin, capital of the German Democratic Republic . Building Academy of the GDR, Institute for Urban Development and Architecture, Berlin (East) 1973.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Kino Kosmos in the Friedrichshain Chronicle
- Kosmos Eventlocation - official homepage of the current user
- Kino Kosmos in the cinema compendium
Individual evidence
- ^ Party conference on May 20, 2006 - nomination of the top candidate. ( Memento of September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved August 26, 2008
- ↑ Marc Neller: Groupies in the Tokio Hotel . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 19, 2006. (Accessed August 26, 2008)
- ↑ Concert with Chris de Burgh . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 11, 2006.
- ↑ State Delegates' Conference (LDK) Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Berlin, Kosmos, Karl-Marx-Allee 131a, 10243 Berlin ( Memento from April 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) from March 24, 2007. ( Accessed August 26, 2008)
- ↑ Founders' Congress 2008 (accessed on August 26, 2008)
- ^ New York, London, Paris, Berlin: Final Cut World Tour . In: Macwelt, April 25, 2008. (Retrieved August 26, 2008)
- ↑ ARIS ProcessWorld '08 ( Memento from February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Retrieved August 26, 2008)
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 1.9 ″ N , 13 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E