List of cinemas in Berlin-Tiergarten

The list of cinemas in Berlin-Tiergarten gives an overview of all cinemas that have existed and still exist in today's Berlin district of Tiergarten . 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
Aladin & Camera (cinema for everyone) ( Location )	Potsdamer Platz 1 ( Potsdamer Strasse 10)	1931-1961	The cinema was set up on the ground floor of the Vox House in 1931 when it was no longer needed for broadcasting. In the wake of the renumbering of the street, the building was awarded in 1937 the number 10. Today this Potsdamer the address space corresponding to the first in the Second World War the house was damaged in 1948 opened the camera light games due to the demand and marginal cinema in 1951 to the Aladin were added. When the Wall was built , both cinemas closed on August 14, 1961 due to a lack of spectators. In 1971, the remains of the Vox house were blown up and removed. As part of the redesign of Potsdamer Platz , the Kollhoff Tower was built there after the political change . Friedrich Wilhelm Foss ran the Aladin cinema in Berlin-Mitte in East Berlin until it was expropriated in 1951. Because he ran his border cinema Camera in the western part of the city and advertised it in the east, he was threatened with arrest in the east. He therefore moved to Zehlendorf in the western part of Berlin. In 1951 he opened the new Aladin cinema next to the camera and thus operated a twin cinema.
arsenal ( Location )	Potsdamer Strasse 2 ( Sony Center )	since 2000	After moving since June 2000, the Arsenal cinema has been located in the basement of the Filmhaus at Sony-Center Potsdamer Platz. It has 236 + 75 seats in two halls. The Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek , founded in 1963, opened the first fixed cinema Arsenal on January 3, 1970 in Welserstraße, after events had previously been held in various other rooms. The Super 8 film festival “ Interfilm Berlin ” was organized together with the Ice Age cinema and other venues ; from 1985 to 1989 the "Friends" organized the European Short Film Festival together with the "Filmhaus Berlin" association. In June 2000 the Arsenal cinema moved to the new film house on Potsdamer Platz .
Atlantic light plays (Ortrud-Wagner-Theater) ( Location )	Potsdamer Strasse 80 (31a)	1907-1943	In 1907 a cinematograph theater was opened at Potsdamer Straße 31a, which was known around 1920 as the Ortrud Wagner Theater . After a short period of closure, the Atlantic-Theater-Lichtspiele opened there in 1925. In 1937, when the house number was re-assigned, the house was given house number 80. The cinema was destroyed in the war, and it is currently a post-war building.
Berlinale Palace ( Location )	Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1	since 2000	The Berlinale Palast on Potsdamer Platz is located in the Stage Theater musical theater on Potsdamer Platz . Every year at the Berlinale , it is transformed into the venue for the film premieres for two weeks. The opening ceremony and the awarding of the official prizes will also take place in the Berlinale Palast. The hall has 1,600 seats and a screen measuring 17.6 m × 8.0 m. The musical theater opened on June 5, 1999. Since the Berlinale in 2000, the musical theater has been the main venue for the Berlinale. Before that, the main venue was the Zoo-Palast in Charlottenburg . Since then the theater has been called the “Berlinale Palast”.
Camera daylight games ( Location )	Potsdamer Platz 1 ( Potsdamer Strasse 10)	1948-1961	Friedrich Wilhelm Foss ran the Aladin cinema in Berlin-Mitte ( East Berlin ) until it was expropriated in 1951. Because he ran his border cinema Camera in the western part of the city and advertised it in the east, he was threatened with arrest in East Berlin. He therefore moved to Zehlendorf in the western part of Berlin. In 1951 he opened the new Aladin cinema next to the camera and thus operated a twin cinema , a forerunner of the multiplex cinema , so to speak .
Cinemaxx ( Location )	Potsdamer Strasse 5	since 1998	The Cinemaxx at Potsdamer Platz was opened on September 2nd, 1998 and belongs to the CinemaxX Holdings GmbH of the same name . 19 cinema halls with 3539 seats are available in the multiplex. It is one of the venues for the Berlinale .
Cinestar Event Cinema (IMAX Potsdamer Platz) ( Location )	Potsdamer Strasse 4 ( Sony Center )	since 2000	The IMAX cinema was opened on January 20, 2000 in the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz, converted into a Cinestar event cinema in 2011 and used as a premiere cinema. After these renovations, the hall now has 350 seats instead of the previous 537 and a 300 m² screen. In June 2013 this hall was redesigned as an IMAX cinema. The cinema is located in the upper part of the cinema building, in the basement the "CineStar Original in the Sony Center". From October 4th to 28th 2015 the IMAX hall was closed to install an IMAX laser projector. The converted cinema was opened on October 29 with The Walk , which was followed by the premiere of Specter on November 5, 2015 .
Cinestar Sony Center ( Location )	Potsdamer Strasse 4	since 2000	The Cinestar in the Sony Center was opened on January 20, 2000 in the basement of the cinema complex as a multiplex and has 2159 seats in eight halls. It is one of the venues for the Berlinale . The IMAX cinema, which was called "Cinestar Event Cinema" from May 2011 to May 2013 after renovations, can also be reached via the same entrance.
Discovery Channel IMAX ( Location )	Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 4	1998-2006	On October 2nd, 1998 the "Discovery Channel IMAX Theater Berlin" opened at Marlene Dietrich Platz as Berlin's first IMAX cinema. On July 31, 2006, the operator, Big Screen Cinema GmbH, closed the cinema again. The hall had 440 seats and there were presentations in 2D and 3D. The cinema was then converted into the musical theater " BlueMax Theater ", in which the Blue Man Group is currently a guest.
Open-air cinema in the Tiergarten ( Location )	Lichtensteinallee 2	1958-1958	The Birkenbusch house was located on the Neuen See in Lichtensteinallee 2 and is now operated as a "Café am Neuen See". The open-air cinema was located in its beer garden and probably only existed in 1958. “The Berliners who did not leave their city during the summer holidays were given a new cinematic recreation area in the Tiergarten . Café Haus Birkenbusch has set up an open-air cinema where you can make yourself comfortable on deck chairs. On the opening evening, the 'Great Caruso' Mario Lanza sang from the 16 meter wide and eight meter high screen. Birkenbusch boss Hellmuth Krüger, a refugee from the East , has proven that to be and become a movie theater owner today you have to be tough . Against months of resistance from the authorities, he managed to open his house and garden on time. Games are played here three times a week. Since the open-air cinema is closed on Saturdays and Sundays, no competition for the other cinemas in the district is to be feared. ” (From: Der neue Film 65/1958)
Chamber light plays in the Fatherland House ( Location )	Köthener Strasse 1–5	1912-1943	1911–1912 construction of the “Haus Potsdam” (later: “ Haus Vaterland ”) office building by Franz Schwechten with a cinematograph theater; 1198 seats (886 parquet, 312 rank), client "Berliner Bank für Handel und Grundbesitz AG", 1922–1923 minor reconstruction by Johann Emil Schaudt , 1928–1929 reconstruction by Carl Stahl-Urach; 1415 seats (1000 parquet, 415 tier). In the Second World War , the building was destroyed from 1943 and the ruins demolished in 1976. The cinema was set up in the rear part of the newly built building in 1912; it extended over the 1st and 2nd floors. “The ground floor, the first floor and half of the second floor are occupied by a café and a cinema theater, both of which have separate entrances. The entrances to the cinema theater are separate from all other entrances on Köthener-Strasse and in the courtyard on Potsdamer-Platz; On the ground floor, they lead into a spacious hall with cloakrooms, which is followed by an elegant foyer with a restaurant. The space that arises above the hall and the foyer on the first floor takes up the parquet of the cinema theater, the floor of which in its front part is horizontal up to 17 m from the screen and then 0.82 to the rear wall m increases. The cinema has a capacity of 886 and 312 on floor, so a total of 1198 visitors. The arrangement of 5 riveted bracket girders, which extend from the front wall in Köthener Straße to the front wall of the courtyard, has created a column-free space for the cinema. The lower edge of the wall surface for taking the picture is 3 m above the floor and allows the required small orchestra to be arranged. An area 6 m wide and 5.55 m high is available for displaying the image. To increase the effect, the picture surface has been deepened a little and provided with a wide black velvet frame. " (From: Deutsche Bauzeitung , June 12, 1912) In 1927/1928 the cinema underwent a major renovation by Carl Stahl-Urach, when the Vaterland house was also converted into a large restaurant. The cinema was from 1./2. Upper floor moved to the three floors from the 1st floor to the basement. (The steel construction made it possible to put in new ceilings) The number of seats increased from 1200 to 1400. “The theater room with 1000 parquet and 400 rank seats is rounded off in a semicircle against the stage. Box-shaped ribbons extend over the walls and the parapet of the tier. 5000 lamps in four-color alternation are installed in these, which create a brightly colored atmosphere on the wall covering. The auditorium is well coordinated in terms of its architectural interior and color scheme. Performances can also take place on the stage in front of which there is an orchestra. The electrically operated curtains and the screen that can be pulled up can be operated from the stage and from the projection room. Two projection devices and the light organ for the auditorium lighting are installed in the projection room itself. Sealing varnish red velor floor. Walls light yellow titian plush. Silver-plated ceiling, light strips, organ and ventilation grilles nickel-plated brass. Gilded wood stalls with red rep upholstery. " (From: Deutsche Bauzeitung , May 11, 1929)
Cinema in the Latin Quarter (BTL-Lichtspiele, Biophon) ( Location )	Potsdamer Strasse 96 (formerly: 38)	1913-1992	The cinema was opened in 1913 at Potsdamer Straße 38 between the Victoria Lyzeum and St. Matthias Church (today St. Jacob Church); in 1937 the house number was changed to 96. Before the Wall was built , the BTL-Lichtspiele were a border cinema . After the cinema was closed at the end of the 1960s, the hall was used as the "Quartier Latin" concert hall from 1970 to 1989. From 1990 to 1992 the hall is said to have been operated again as a "cinema in the Latin Quarter". The conservatory has been using the rooms since 1992 .
Lützow Palace ( Location )	Lützowstrasse 111/112	1929-1930	The Lützow Palace was located on the corner of Lützowstrasse and Flottwellstrasse near the former Potsdam freight station . It was opened as a silent film cinema in December 1929, the music came from the orchestra of the Phoebus-Palast (cinema routinier Alexander Schirmann moved with his musicians from the Phoebus-Palast to the Lützow-Palast). The house was apparently run by theater director Fred Engländer, who before and after ran cinemas in Berlin-Mitte . There were variety performances to accompany the film. The cinema was shut down as early as 1930, and the Lützow Palace is not even mentioned in the cinema address books. The building has not been preserved. The cinema was set up in 1929 in the so-called Theater in Lützowstraße (Lützow-Theater, Lützowstraße 111/112), where the Victoria Brewery with a restaurant and ballrooms was previously located. Gotthard Schierse had the rooms of the former Viktoria brewery in Lützowstraße converted into a chamber music house in 1921. In addition to the Schwechten-Saal (807 seats), the Brahms-Saal (221 seats) could be rented for concerts. After the inflationary period, the halls were renamed "Theater in der Lützowstraße" (large hall) and "Kammer-Oper" (smaller Hall) from Schierse until 1927.
PPP, Primus Palace ( Location )	Potsdamer Strasse 38 (formerly: 19)	1922-1938	The Primus-Palast was opened in 1922 at Potsdamer Straße 19 / corner Margarethenstraße 9. In 1937 the house number changed to no. 38. The house was demolished as early as April 1938 as part of the redesign of the area. As part of the world capital Germania , the shell of the House of Tourism , which was demolished in 1962, was built there. Today there is the State Library , which was built from 1967 to 1978 according to plans by the architect Hans Scharoun .
universe ( Location )	Potsdamer Strasse 30 (formerly: 14)	1911-1921	The property at Potsdamer Straße 14 (from 1937: No. 30) was built over, and this is where Eichhornstraße joins Marlene-Dietrich-Platz. The cinema there is said to have existed from 1911 to 1921.
Victoria light plays ( Location )	Potsdamer Strasse 95 (formerly: 108)	1910-1921	The cinema existed from approx. 1910 to 1921. The address has been Potsdamer Straße 95 since it was renumbered in 1937. There is currently a post-war building there. According to research by Kino Wiki, the owners of the cinema were : In 1911 Moritz Wall is the owner of the Victoria Theater, followed by A. Bloch in 1913. In 1917 as Viktoria-Lichtspiele the owner was F. Hirschmann, then in 1919 A. Sautz. Karl Ehlert, who took over the cinema in 1920, finally gave up the operation in 1921 when he took over the " Colonna " in Schöneberg at Kolonnenstrasse 5/6 , which was probably sold by the heirs.

literature

• Sylvaine Hänsel, Angelika Schmitt (eds.): Cinema architecture in Berlin 1895–1995 . Reimer, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-496-01129-7 .
• Peter Boeger: Architecture of the movie theaters in Berlin: Buildings and projects 1919–1930 . Willmuth Arenhövel, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-922912-28-1 .

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

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. ↑ cinema compendium Berlinale Palast
5. ↑ cinema compendium CinemaxX Potsdamer Platz
6. ↑ cinema compendium CineStar EVENT Cinema
7. ↑ cinema compendium CineStar Original in the Sony Center
8. ↑ cinema compendium Discovery Channel IMAX Theater Berlin
9. ^ State Institute for Music Research Concert Guide Berlin-Brandenburg 1920–2012

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