List of cinemas in Berlin-Wedding

The list of cinemas in Berlin-Wedding gives an overview of all cinemas that have existed and still exist in today's Berlin district of Wedding . 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 .

The cinemas in alphabetical order

Name / location	address	Duration	Description + picture
L'Aiglon (eagle) ( Location )	Kurt-Schumacher-Damm 121	1954-1993	The cinema was built in 1954 on the basis of a competition announced by the French occupation forces based on plans by the architect Hans Wolff-Grohmann (1903-2000). He designed a building complex consisting of a cinema and a hotel in reinforced concrete . The defining architectural features are a large, slightly concave glass front and a curved entrance area in front that connects the hotel and cinema. The cinema was in operation from 1954 to 1993. It has served as a guest house since the 2010s. The cinema belongs to the listed complex of the Julius-Leber-Kaserne.
Alhambra (Apollo) ( Location )	Seestrasse 94 / Müllerstrasse 136	since 1912	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. 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. 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. 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. Since then, the cinema has been called Cineplex Alhambra . 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.
Alhambra Too ( Location )	Triftstrasse 67	1996-2002	On November 7, 1996, the owner of the Alhambra Müllerstraße, Leopold Wegenstein, opened the “Alhambra Too” on Sparrplatz at Triftstraße 67. The cinema was supposed to complement the Alhambra, which at the time only had one hall. Due to the renovation of the Cineplex Alhambra, which opened in May 2002, the operation was no longer necessary, which is why the cinema closed again in March 2002. Today the Eschenbräu brewery is located there.
Cupid plays of light ( Location )	Torfstrasse 28a	1913-1919	The cinema at Torfstrasse 28a is said to have existed from 1913 to 1919.
Drive-in cinema (on the fairground) ( Location )	Kurt-Schumacher-Damm 207	since 2003	After the four Berlin drive-in cinemas from the 1960s to 1980s, another one was set up in 2003 by the cinema organizer Henry Musch from Sassnitz on the “Central Festival Square”. Initially for 130 cars, currently (as of 2016) 250 cars are specified. The screen has a size of 11 m × 18 m, the presentation takes place with stereo sound on the car radio and image projection in digital 4K. Current films are shown from March to October. The area around the area is based on the possibilities of the festival area on Kurt-Schumacher-Damm, which became famous through the Franco-German folk festivals . The direct connection to the A 111 , level driveways, four roller shutter systems, power supply and lighting also make other events possible. SSF Autokino Berlin GmbH (Dennis-Gabor-Straße 2, Potsdam) was the initiator of the drive-in cinema since 2009. When this moved to Schönefeld, in 2015 the "Bärliner Autokino GmbH" took over the gaming operations.
City Kino Wedding in the Center Français de Berlin ( Location )	Mullerstrasse 74	since 1996	The cinema in the Center Français de Berlin is located in a multi-purpose hall in the Center Culturel Français, which was built in 1961 . The building is a listed monument. This has been used for cultural events, theatrical performances and film screenings since its opening. Free film screenings for a German audience were also regularly held here. After the withdrawal of the French troops, the hall was used as "City Wedding" from 1996 to 2007, after which the cinema was closed for the time being. For a short time in 2009 the CFB opened again under the name Eiffel Tower Cinema . On September 13, 2014, the "City Kino Wedding" reopened. Initially, the “City Kino” initiative regularly showed selected films at low prices every two weeks until the end of the year in a kind of test phase. Since January 2015, the art house cinema has been showing a lovingly selected Arthouse program every week, Thursday to Sunday .
Excelsior light plays ( Location )	Mullerstrasse 137	1912-1923	As early as 1912–1914 there was briefly a cinematograph theater by J. Grund (previously 1910–1912: Brusseler Strasse 1) at Müllerstrasse 137 at the corner of Seestrasse 44. A photographer was then based there. The Excelsior light shows opened in 1919, but they only existed until 1923. It should have been a shop cinema. The building has been preserved and has shops on the ground floor.
Fortuna light games ( Location )	Müllerstrasse 12c	1912 - approx. 1943	The cinema on the corner of Lindower Strasse has supposedly existed since 1912, but there is no entry in the Berlin address books. It was destroyed in the Second World War around 1943. Today there are flat commercial buildings that will soon be demolished.
Gong light games (AB light games) ( Location )	Liebenwalder Strasse 26	1953-1962	In 1953 the Gong-Lichtspiele opened at Liebenwalder Straße 26, which were named Conny-Lichtspiele from 1956 and AB-Lichtspiele from 1958 after its owner Alex Bayer. In 1956, the cinema was briefly called "Liebenwalder Lichtspiele". Game operations ended in 1962. Before the end of the Second World War, the buildings belonged to Osram GmbH.
Chamber light games (Nordstern light games) ( Location )	Müllerstrasse 65	1919-1962	The master butcher Otto Gerth was the owner of the house at Müllerstrasse 65 at the corner of Schöningstrasse 24 even before the cinematograph theater opened. Otto Gerth died in 1921. In 1925, the Kammer-Lichtspiele reopened instead of the Nordstern-Lichtspiele. The cinema existed until 1962. The shop cinema at the Rehberge underground station is now used as a shop.
Cinematograph theater ( Location )	Seestrasse 36	1912-1917	A cinema is said to have existed at Seestrasse 36 from 1912 to 1927. However, after 1917 there are no more references in the cinema address books. It can be assumed that the cinema closed in 1917.
Cinematograph theater ( Location )	Togostrasse 76	1911-1913	In Togostraße 76 there is said to have been a cinematograph theater for a short time. References to this can be found in the Berlin address book in 1912/1913. There is a residential building with a shop fitting on the ground floor.
Marga light plays ( Location )	Schulstrasse 29	1919-1994	Franz Gleinert's Wedding Casino was in front of the cinema at Schulstrasse 29 . The Marga-Lichtspiele opened in 1919 and existed as a cinema until 1976. The architect for the installation of the cinema was E. Damero in 1919, the expansion in 1925 was carried out by Caspar Werner. After 1976 it became a table dance bar with porn cinema, which was operated until about 1995th Today there is a karaoke bar there. "Paul Neumann came already in the war year 1914 to the film industry and opened in Berlin his Apollo-air theater in the Belforter road. Five years later he was looking for a larger sphere of activity and acquired the Marga-Lichtspiele in the north of Berlin, a house with 433 seats that is still in his possession today. As a movie theater owner, Paul Neumann is in his 44th year of work and is one of the 'old hands' of the four- sector and former imperial capital. "( Der neue Film 40/1957)
Mercedes Palace (Ufa Palace) ( Location )	Utrecht Street 33	1926-1962	The Mercedes Palace was built in 1926 according to plans by Fritz Wilms on the foundations of a former iron foundry; it had parquet spaces in 1990. After the Second World War it was still used as a cinema. It has been used as a supermarket since 1965, and the building was demolished in 1987. The operator was initially from 1927 the “Mercedes-Palast-Lichtspieltheater GmbH” and from 1930 the “Ufa-Theater-Betriebs-GmbH”. The building was located at Utrecht Straße 33 (today: 17-21) at the corner of Turiner Straße 29/30 (today: 25-29). From 1933 to 1947, Utrecht Strasse was named Wagnitzstrasse, which was also accompanied by the renaming of the cinema. In 1945 the Mercedes Palace was administered by Soyuzintorgkino. The cinema apparently also had a cinema organ.
Metropol cinema ( Location )	Schulstrasse 37	1911-1919	The Metropol-Kino-Theater was located at Schulstrasse 37 from 1911 to 1919. Today there is a residential building.
Pamela light plays ( Location )	Müllerstrasse 156	1952-1966	The cinema was probably built in a gap in the building caused by the war . The Pamela light games played from 1952 to 1966. Today there is a shop there.
Pharus light plays ( Location )	Müllerstrasse 142	1912-1943	The building belonged to the Bergschloßbrauerei AG from Wißmannstrasse 31-42 in Berlin. The Pharus Halls were opened in July 1907 in the courtyard of the property, and films were shown from 1912. The halls were also known as the “Magnificent Halls of the North” and were also used for political rallies. At the beginning of 1940 the halls were converted into a large canteen, damaged in an air raid in late 1943 and completely destroyed in February 1945. An extension of the AOK was built on the property in 1960 . Only the front building is still preserved.
Polo-Lichtspiele day cinema (Walhalla Lichtspiele) ( Location )	Chausseestrasse 79	1912-1961	The Polo-Lichtspiele existed from 1912 to 1961 and were last with 281 seats in Chausseestrasse 79 near the subway border station Reinickendorfer Strasse and were border cinema until 1961 . The long, narrow cinema in the rear wing was opposite the Hertie department store.
Scala movie theater ( Location )	Müllerstrasse 53	1954-1952	The restaurant “Oldenburger Hof” was previously located at Müllerstraße 53; in the 1920s the house belonged to the “Association for the Poor”. In 1952 the inn was torn down for the new cinema. The cinema opened in 1954 and closed again in 1962. When it opened in 1954, the house was in line with the trend of the time for cinemascope and widescreen presentations and had three projectors . The entrance was between two shops and took up the first two floors of the front building. A lobby with seating and a sales booth was followed by the ticket hall, which had the same dimensions and housed a free-standing ticket booth in the middle. The foyer was like the auditorium already located behind the main house building part. Today there is a new residential building with a Sparkasse branch on the ground floor.
Schiller plays of light ( Location )	Müllerstrasse 36	1912-1981	The cinema opened in October 1912 and expanded to almost 600 seats in 1936. After being damaged in the Second World War, the cinema was able to reopen in 1951 and remained in operation until 1981. Today there is a commercial building with a futuristic glass facade and shop.
Sparr-Lichtspiele (LBB am Sparrplatz) ( Location )	Sparrstrasse 18	1911-1969	The Sparr-Lichtspiele opened in 1925 and existed until 1969. But even before that, there were film screenings as a shop cinema from around 1911. LBB initially stood for light-image-stage. The cinema was located in the corner building at Sparrstraße 18 / Sprengelstraße 47. Today there is a shop fitting on the ground floor.
Sputnik (Momo, Maxim; Clou) ( Location )	Reinickendorfer Strasse 113	1952-1998	In 1954 the Clou-Filmtheater opened in the back yard of the house at Reinickendorfer Straße 113, which was created by converting a storage hall according to plans by Gustav Genz. At the end of the 1970s, Kazim Ismailcebi bought the cinema and operated it until 1984 under the name Momo or Maxim, showing mostly Turkish films. On June 1, 1984 it reopened as Sputnik after Anna Fuchs, Hans Habiger, Stefan Arndt and Madeleine Bernstorff had taken over the cinema. In 1991 the cinema was listed and closed in 1998. The cinema was demolished in July 2006 (despite the monument protection), only the courtyard passage with the former program boxes is preserved.
Thalia (Leopold-Lichtspiele) ( Location )	Maxstrasse 15	1912-1961	The shop cinema existed from 1912 to 1961. Today you can find a residential building with a corner bar and shop fitting on the ground floor.
Theater des Weddings ( Location )	Sellerstraße 35 / Müllerstraße 182/183	1910-1962	Alfred Duskes' former Rex studio (film studio) was soon used as a cinema with around 600 seats. In the 1930s, the facade was renovated and changes were made to the interior. The theater survived the Second World War almost unscathed, but had to close in 1962 as a border cinema . It was demolished in August 1973. Today, a splendid building belonging to the Schering Group stands on this site. The corner building on Sellerstrasse / Müllerstrasse was also known as the Wedding Palace , and there was also a concert cafe in the same building. The Rex studio in a house in the backyard existed until 1931. “The large and huge front could not create the desired imposing impression, as the work had not yet been completed. At the door there are servant bellboys in stylish uniforms, as in the well-known 5 UT theaters, as a lot of good things have been reproduced, including the red floor lighting. The entire theater with its white, its almost too splendid lighting, the discreet and pleasant-looking green side lights and the magnificent stucco makes a noble, good impression. The orchestra space under the stage with its arched division has been architecturally treated extremely cleverly. The orchestra is under the direction of the conductor Neumann, he has accompanied a Christmas picture - "The little match seller" - beautifully. The invited audience was too numerous and not well chosen. You shouldn't invite all social classes and classes to a guest performance, where everyone can choose their seat as they please. The north German audience consists of classes and is not as impartial as in Munich's Hofbräuhaus, for example. […] The tier slides far into the hall, offering a lot of space in its spaciousness. Upstairs is a very nicely laid out foyer, which with its chic wicker furniture invites you to linger a while [...] It is also remarkable that the entire five-story building is used by the cinema, because above the theater is a cinematographic recording studio, which is spacious and is the largest and most beautiful cinema studio in Germany, two floors high. Here the ceiling openings, the stair episodes for hotel scenes and the exciting secret basement flaps for detective civilians can easily come into action "
Tivoli (Virchow-Lichtspiele) ( Location )	Triftstrasse 46	1913-1961	This cinema was probably a shop cinema that is said to have existed from 1913 to 1961 with interruption. (1913–1939; 1946–1961 building preserved, used as a warehouse). Today you can find a residential building with a shop fitting on the ground floor at Triftstraße 46.
Tivoli cinema ( Location )	Müllerstrasse 153a – 154	1907-1923	The Café Luxemburg and the bathing establishment Thierbach (Schillerbad) were located at Müllerstrasse 153a / 154 at the corner of Luxemburgstrasse, and the house is near Leopoldplatz. The adjoining hall was called Tivoli. Today the Leopold Center is located there.
Valencia Film Palace ( Location )	Kameruner Strasse 4	1953-1964	1953 was a year of the cinema boom in Berlin's densely populated Wedding district. The Alhambra was reopened and the Clou light shows and Valencia reopened within a few weeks. The tier of the cinema stretched into the stalls on both sides , and there were also seats on the stairs. The canvas had the unusual dimensions of 8 m × 10 m, the red artificial leather seats were upholstered with foam. The opening film was Der Freibeuter . The cinema existed from December 1953 to 1964. Unfortunately, the building has not been preserved, a new residential building is located here. “Experts still rave about the optimal combination of room design and functionality. But that didn't help, the movie theater closed 11 years later and was then torn down. Also in Wedding, only a quarter away from the Alhambra, Valencia has emerged in southern beauty. The owners of the house are Georg Becker and Friedrich Lachheim. The interior architecture designed by Gustav Klöhn is remarkable: from the parquet, starting just in front of the stage, the rank swings like a rainbow, a bold but impressive and illuminating design. The slightly curved canvas, six by eight meters in size, allows a three-dimensional rendering. The yellow, springy wall covering is divided into large cubes and gives the room, which is furnished with red foam rubber armchairs (930), something cozy. UFA-Handel also supplied the technical equipment here ”. ( The new film 7/1954)
Virchow cinema ( Location )	Triftstrasse 37	1911-1917	This cinema was probably a shop cinema that is said to have existed from around 1911 to 1917. (1911–1917 building preserved, cinema destroyed). Today, at Triftstrasse 37 at the corner of Torfstrasse 16a on Augustenburger Platz, there is a residential building with a shop on the ground floor.
World theater ( Location )	Müllerstrasse 7 (6)	1905-1944	The house at Müllerstrasse 6 was on the corner of Fennstrasse 4 on Weddingplatz. Films have been shown here since 1905. It was the first fixed cinema in Wedding. Since 1922 the entry Welttheater Lichtspiele GmbH appeared in the Berlin address book at Müllerstrasse 7 in the building next to it. The hall building was destroyed in the Second World War. The house at Müllerstrasse 6 was originally the Palais Fürst Blücher with a dance hall. In 1883 it became a clubhouse with a meeting room for the Berlin City Mission and the nickname “ Schrippenkirche ”. In 1902 the community moved to Ackerstrasse. The Continental coffee house and the Welt-Theater were later located at 6 Müllerstrasse. Gustav Milbrodt's Wedding Society House was located at Müllerstrasse 7 and also had a beautiful hall. The cinema was probably located in this hall on the courtyard property the whole time, only moved the entrance to No. 7 around 1920. According to cinema architecture in Berlin, the cinema was located at Müllerstraße 6 from 1906 to 1921 and the cinema at Müllerstraße 7 from 1905 until the Second World War. The house at Müllerstraße 6 still exists, there is a parking garage at Müllerstraße 7.

literature

Sylvaine Hänsel, Angelika Schmitt (eds.): Cinema architecture in Berlin 1895–1995 . Reimer, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-496-01129-7 .
Astrid Bähr: Alhambra light plays . In: Sylvaine Hänsel, Angelika Schmitt (eds.), Kinoarchitektur in Berlin 1895–1995, Berlin 1995

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.

Individual evidence

↑ 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.

↑ The breakdown by districts and districts is based on the district reform of 2001.

^ Stefan Strauss: Film? Running. Publication in the Berliner Zeitung , March 27, 2017, p. 13.

↑ The entire Julius Leber barracks complex consists of barracks, sports facilities and swimming pool

↑ ^a ^b Wolfgang W. Timmler: Late performance with subway thunder . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 11, 1999, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 76-78 ( luise-berlin.de ).

↑ ^a ^b ^c Gerhild HM Komander: The Wedding: on the way from red to colored . Berlin Story Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-929829-38-X , p. 117

^ ^A ^b ^c Sabine Flatau: Cinema owner wants Alhambra back . In: Berliner Morgenpost , October 8, 2008

↑ Jan Oberländer: "Alhambra" under the hammer . In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 7, 2010

↑ Cineplex Alhambra at berlin.de

↑ Festplatz Kurt-Schumacher-Damm FIS-Broker (map of Berlin 1: 5000 (K5 color edition)) of the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment

↑ Seat information on the homepage of the drive-in cinema ( memento of the original from July 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Kinokompendium.de: Autokino Berlin
↑ Center Culturel Français: 1960–1961 by Gerhard Laube
↑ quiez.de: A cinema wakes up from its slumber .
↑ City Kino Wedding at berlin.de
↑ Sparrplatz search for traces project - Sparr-Lichtspiele
^ Chronicle of the Sputnik / Wedding cinema
^ Sputnik Wedding. kinokompendium.de
↑ Rex-Atelier at cinegraph.de
↑ Lichtbild-Bühne , 124/10. December 1910
↑ allekinos.com With pictures

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

[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] The entire Julius Leber barracks complex consists of barracks, sports facilities and swimming pool

[tim-5] Wolfgang W. Timmler: Late performance with subway thunder . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 11, 1999, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 76-78 ( luise-berlin.de ).

[kom117-6] Gerhild HM Komander: The Wedding: on the way from red to colored . Berlin Story Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-929829-38-X , p. 117

[fla-7] A ^b ^c Sabine Flatau: Cinema owner wants Alhambra back . In: Berliner Morgenpost , October 8, 2008

[obe-8] Jan Oberländer: "Alhambra" under the hammer . In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 7, 2010

[9] Cineplex Alhambra at berlin.de