List of cinemas in Berlin-Moabit

The list of cinemas in Berlin-Moabit gives an overview of all cinemas that have existed and still exist in today's Berlin district of Moabit . The list was built according to information from research in the Kino-Wiki and linked to connections with Berlin's cinema history from further historical and current references. It reflects the status of the film screening facilities that have ever existed in Berlin as well as the situation in January 2020. According to this, there are 92 venues in Berlin, which means first place in Germany, followed by Munich (38), Hamburg (28), Dresden (18) as well as Cologne and Stuttgart (17 each). At the same time, this compilation is part of the lists of all Berlin cinemas .

Name / location	address	Duration	description	image
Arena light games ( Location )	Turmstrasse 19	1918-1947	The Arena-Lichtspiele, formerly “Berliner Lichtspiel-Theater”, in Turmstrasse 19 existed from 1918 to 1947. The building was destroyed and replaced by a post-war building.
Bambi light games ( Location )	Perleberger Strasse 59	1952-1975	The Bambi-Lichtspiele in Perleberger Straße 59 existed from 1952 to 1975. After 1970, however, there are no more records in address books. So they could have been closed earlier. In 2008 the “health spa Tiergarten” was located in the house.
Beussel light games ( Location )	Beusselstrasse 22	1919-1968	The ground floor of the apartment building at Beusselstrasse 22, which is now vacant, has housed a tube-like cinema with around 300 folding seats that extends through the side wing into the rear building. The Beussel-Lichtspiele cinema, which lasted until 1968, included films such as For Two Groschen Zärtlichkeit 1947 in its program. Operated as Sex Kino 2000 since 1981, in 1997 vacant across the street from a video store .
Birch light plays ( Location )	Wilhelmshavener Strasse 28	1918-1919	For a short time there seems to have been a cinema theater at Wilhelmshavener Strasse 28 / corner of Birkenstrasse. From 1920, however, it is already noted as closed.
BTL light games ( Location )	Turmstrasse 12	1905-1979	The BTL-Lichtspiele in Turmstraße 12 (entrance also Wilsnacker Straße 63) existed from 1905 to 1979. The front building has been preserved and has a shop on the ground floor. The cinema was probably located in a no longer preserved hall in the courtyard.
BUK-Palast (Bundesrat-Lichtspiele) ( Location )	Bundesratufer 9	1910-1944	The BUK-Palast existed as a cinema from 1910 to 1944. The building was destroyed in the Second World War , and nurses' homes were built there in the 1960s. They have now been torn down again and made space for exclusive residential buildings.
Corso-Lichtspiele (Artushof-Lichtspiele, Victoria-Lichtbild-Theater) ( Location )	Perleberger Strasse 29	1912-1944	The cinema was set up in 1912 in the hall of the theater "Artus-Hof" (founded in 1888) and existed there until it was destroyed in 1944. Initially the house was at number 26, but from 1928 it changed to number 29. The entrance to Cinema could also be done from Stendaler Straße 18.
Domela-Lichtspiele (Fortuna, Rostocker Lichtspiele) ( Location )	Rostocker Strasse 12	1912-1930	From 1912 to 1930 there was a cinema with constantly changing names at Rostocker Straße 12, with interruptions. Presumably it was a shop cinema or a small cinema in the back yard of the house.
Filmbühne Hansa ( Location )	Old Moabit 48	1913-1963	In Alt-Moabit 47/48 the “Stadttheater Moabit” was opened in 1889 with 1100 seats in the ballroom of the Kronenbrauerei. In 1923 the theater hall was converted into a cinema. In the cinema data, 1925 is given as the opening year, but films are said to have been shown there from 1913 to 1920. The cinema existed until 1963 when it became the Hansa Theater. The theater was called Engelbrot since 2007 and closed completely in 2009. “A new film palace in Moabit. The theater company in Alt-Moabit, which has been operating under the name of 'Stadt-Theater Moabit' for decades, will soon be taken over by the well-known cinema professionals A. Nowakowski and H. Weitenauer and will be moved to a modern cinema palace with a film and stage show by the architect H. Lischka converted. The new theater will have around 1000 seats and will be the first large company with such performances in the north-western part of Berlin ”. ( The cinematograph no.851, June 10, 1923)
Film rush palace ( Location )	Lehrter Strasse 35	since 1991	The only cinema in Moabit is in the Kulturfabrik Moabit , run by the Filmrausch Moabit e. V. ( non-profit ), has 44 seats and mainly shows newer films with a cultural claim. As a special feature, there is a personal announcement before each film. The cinema has existed since 1991. It is operated as an independent arthouse cinema.
Hansa Theater ( Location )	Old Moabit 84	1910-1920	In 1923 Nowakowski opened the Hansa film theater in the Stadttheater in Alt-Moabit 47/48. In Alt-Moabit 84 at the corner of Krefelder Straße 22, he apparently ran a small shop cinema that existed from around 1910 to 1920. There is a residential building with shops on the ground floor.
Chamber light games Hansa ( Location )	Solinger Strasse 6 / Tile-Wardenberg-Strasse 20	1927-1944	The Kammer-Lichtspiele (Hansa) were located in the corner building at Tile-Wardenberg-Strasse 20 / Solinger Strasse 6 from 1927 to 1944. According to the architecture of the cinema in Berlin, the cinema was also called the “camera” and existed since 1911. The building has been destroyed.
Cinematograph theater ( Location )	Beusselstrasse 41	1908-1913	The house at Beusselstraße 41 (cinema from 1908 to 1913) was apparently destroyed in the Second World War; there are houses that were built later. The same applies to No. 27 (cinema before 1917).
Maxim ( Location )	Turmstrasse 72/73	1955-1988	The Maxim-Filmtheater in Turmstrasse 72/73 existed from 1955 to 1978. It was built by the architect Gerhard Fritsche . After the closure, the rooms were used for a supermarket. The hall behind the house has been preserved.
Moabit plays of light ( Location )	Wiclefstrasse 48	1912-1961	The Moabiter Lichtspiele in Wiclefstraße 48 existed from 1912 to 1961. After that, a used furniture dealer used the hall. Today you can find a preserved house from that time there.
Orion light plays ( Location )	Beusselstrasse 9	1919-1943	The Orion Lichtspiele in Beusselstrasse 9 in the “Moabiter Bürgersäle” existed from 1919 to 1943. The cinema was destroyed in the Second World War .
Stephan light plays ( Location )	Stephanstrasse 3	1948-1972	The Stephan-Lichtspiele in Stephanstraße 3 existed from 1948 to at least 1972. They were set up in the rear part of the Theodor-Heuss-Schule in a part of the building of the local Moses-Mendelssohn-Oberschule. The houses at Stephanstraße 2/3 are listed as former teachers' houses.
Star plays of light ( Location )	Alt-Moabit 80	1919-1944	The Stern-Lichtspiele existed from September 1, 1919 until it was destroyed in 1944, when a bomb fell directly on the cinema during World War II , which had a public air raid shelter .
Electricity light games (Luna, Union) ( Location )	Stromstrasse 40	1910-1944	The Strom-Lichtspiele in Stromstraße 40 existed from 1910 to 1944. The building has been destroyed and is used as an area for a used car dealer.
Thalia-Lichtspiele (forest cinema) ( Location )	Waldstrasse 8	1912-1943	The Thalia-Lichtspiele (also Wald-Kino or Volks-Kino-Theater ) were located at Waldstrasse 8 and existed from 1912 to 1943. The building was on the corner of Waldenserstrasse 19, the property is now vacant and is used as a playground .
Tivoli (Lichtspiele Moabiter Society House) ( Location )	Wiclefstrasse 24	1912-1942	The Tivoli-Lichtspiele in the hall of the Moabiter Gesellschaftshaus at Wiclefstrasse 24 (entrance also from Emdener Strasse 41) existed from 1919 to 1942, but there were also film screenings there as early as 1912. A residential building from the 1960s is located here today. Other sources say the cinema is said to have existed until 1952, but there is no evidence of this.
Tower light games ( Location )	Turmstrasse 70	1912-1920	The cinematograph theater Turm-Lichtspiele in Moabiter Turmstrasse 70 existed from 1912 to 1920.
Tower Palace, Ufa Theater Turmstrasse ( Location )	Turmstrasse 25/26	1925-1974	In 1922, Wilhelm Kratz presented the "Filmsck" project with 2158 seats (1087 in the floor, 576 in the 1st rank, 500 in the 2nd rank), which had been commissioned by the "Folienck-Moabit-GmbH". The project was not carried out. The same project under the name Colosseum also failed. In the spring of 1924, the construction of the large cinema began on the grounds of the beer and concert garden of the Schultheiss-Patzenhofer brewery in Turmstrasse 26 / corner of Stromstrasse under the supervision of Max Schwarze. The Ufa-Theater Turmstrasse in Moabit was inaugurated on February 19, 1925. The movie theater was completed by building officer Max Bischoff and the architect Fritz Wilms . In addition to the cinema, the building also contained the “Café Vaterland”. The cinema existed in this form until 1944, but the cinema was completely destroyed during the Second World War . In 1952 the Tower Palace opened, which had been set up in the former "Café Vaterland". It existed there until it was closed in 1974. After that, an Aldi store moved into the house, and finally a furniture store. In May / June 2015, the last remaining building began to be demolished; a further shopping center with a hotel is now to be built in the so-called “Schultheissquartier”.
Eagle owl light shows (Thalia Theater) ( Location )	Old Moabit 15	1909-1943	The cinema existed from 1906 to 1943, it was destroyed in the Second World War. There is currently a parking garage there.
Union (Ufa Levetzowstrasse) ( Location )	Levetzowstrasse 3–5	1944-1947	According to the architecture of the cinema in Berlin, the Union Theater at Levetzowstraße 3–5 existed as an alternative cinema from 1944 to 1947; The Heinrich-v.-Kleist-Oberschule and a film school as well as the school inspection of the Berlin schools are located there. The building is a listed building .
People's Cinema Theater ( Location )	Beusselstrasse 61	1912-1923	The cinema was operated from 1912 to 1923. It was probably a shop cinema. There is currently a residential building with shops on the ground floor at Beusselstraße 61.
World cinema ( Location )	Alt-Moabit 99-103	1919-1966	The first cinema in this house, namely the world cinema, was built in 1919 on the first floor, in the previous company chapel of the C. Bolle dairy . It offered space for over 1100 visitors until the Second World War in 1943 destroyed all of its interior furnishings. So long it was the second largest cinema in Moabit after the nearby Tower Palace. Reconditioned and later rebuilt, the building served as a cinema until 1966. Located in the immediate vicinity of the Lehrter train station , it was also a border cinema until 1961 . After the cinema was closed in 1966, the Berliner Kammerspiele successfully played theater in this house, especially for school classes. The Kammerspiele theater existed from 1966 to 1999 and was then closed. The upper floor with the former cinema hall had been empty since 1999. In the 2010s, Ernst Freiberger junior developed a new concept for its use in close cooperation with the hotel management of the Albion. The room was redesigned into a large ballroom according to plans by the architects Ansgar Schmidt and Henning Ziepke. The resulting ballroom one, a so-called "event location", was freed from the interior plastering on the walls and has been available for all kinds of major events since summer 2015.

literature

• Sylvaine Hänsel, Angelika Schmitt (eds.): Cinema architecture in Berlin 1895–1995 . Reimer, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-496-01129-7 .

Web links

The Kino Wiki is currently hosted on filmtheater.square7.ch . The data was compiled from the special address books Reichskino Adressbuch (Verlag Lichtbühne) and Kinoadressbuch (Verlag Max Mattisson) as well as the cinema list (1907–1910) of the first specialist journal for all of the art of photography, Der Kinematograph . The project of the Berlin cinemas is based on this data and supplements regional references.

• Film theater history in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
• Berlin's independent cinema guide
• On the trail of cinemas - all cinemas in the computer . In: Berlinische Monatsschrift , 12/1996, at the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein

• Cinema for Moabit

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kino-Wiki main page, accessed on January 18, 2020. Kinowiki deals with the history of movie theaters in Germany and tries to collect all information about movie theaters and movie theaters in Germany. It is sorted according to federal states and cities. Everyone is called upon to supplement the data or correct errors.
2. ↑ The breakdown by districts and districts is based on the district reform of 2001.
3. ^ Stefan Strauss: Film? Running. Publication in the Berliner Zeitung , March 27, 2017, p. 13.
4. ↑ Hansa Theater in Moabit online
5. ↑ Filmrausch Moabit e. V.
6. ↑ Maxim
7. ↑ LDL Berlin: 5th municipal secondary school & 160th and 188th community school
8. ↑ LDL Berlin: Kleist Lyceum and Film School

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