Hardly any other cultural location has seen as much history as the Admiralspalast.
The end of the imperial era, the "Golden Twenties", the global economic crisis, the Nazi era, the founding of the SED, the turnaround and the reconstruction of the East.
The house on Friedrichstraße can look back on more than a hundred years of eventful history, which was shaped not only by historical developments but also by very different cultural influences.
Whether ice arena, revue theater or operetta house - the Admiralspalast has always been synonymous with Berlin's cultural and entertainment frenzy.
The Admiralspalast is a traditional venue at Friedrichstrasse 101/102 in the Mitte district of the same name. It is one of the few large entertainment venues from the beginning of the 20th century in Berlin that have survived. In 2006, the theater in the listed building was reopened after extensive renovation and reconstruction work.
The building was largely spared during the Second World War. The still intact and representative theater hall, which was located in the Soviet sector of Greater Berlin, served the Soviet occupying forces and the German authorities after 1945 as a venue for political and cultural purposes. Among other things, a Max Pechstein exhibition took place in 1946. On the initiative of the Soviet military commander Bersarin, the German State Opera moved into the Admiralspalast, whose building was no longer usable due to Allied bombings. Two weeks after the opening concert on August 23, 1945, Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice was performed. The State Opera performed here for ten years and staged a total of 55 productions.[10]
Unification party conference of the SPD and KPD to form the SED in the Admiralspalast (April 1946). Handshake between Wilhelm Pieck and Otto Grotewohl, front right: Walter Ulbricht; 3rd row, 2nd from left: Erich Honecker. On January 29, 1946, a ceremony was held in the Admiralspalast to mark the reopening of the University of Berlin. On April 21 and 22, 1946, the unification party conference of the East Zone KPD and the SPD was held in the Admiralspalast, at which the founding of the SED was decided. After the split of the Berlin city administration, Friedrich Ebert Jr. was elected in the building on November 30, 1948. to the mayor of East Berlin.[3]
After the German State Opera was able to return to its original and rebuilt building on the Unter den Linden boulevard in 1955, the Metropol Theater moved into the Admiralspalast. Until it closed in 1997, operettas and musicals were performed with a permanent house ensemble in the large hall with 1,400 seats.
The concerts of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra took place mostly in the Metropol Theater until it moved to the concert hall on the Gendarmenmarkt in 1984.
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