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Such as the movie theater in Berlin, Ufa-Palast movie wrote history

The Berlin Ufa Palace, was not only a cinema, but an Institution that showed the big Ufa productions for the first time. The Nazis used it as propaganda cinema. After the war, it was rebuilt as the Zoo Palace.



A movie theatre, it was on the hard mountain road, in the vicinity of the Berlin zoo, and has been since 1912. The Cines film company had transformed the exhibition halls, in which sporting events a guest to a movie theater and up to the outbreak of the First world war, there own productions shown. Historically significant it was until later. During the First world war, had been founded in 1917, the Universum Film AG (Ufa), and turned into the Cines cinema for your own game site. With “Madame Dubarry” celebrated the cinema on the 18. In September 1919 his inauguration.

In the following years attention made exciting premieres, which were accompanied by elaborate light installations, the Ufa-Palast am Zoo, the most famous cinema in the country. The premieres of all the big Ufa productions were held here. It was the time of the first great movie theatre, Berlin, with over 100 cinemas, the film capital of Europe. The roaring twenties raged and the cultural scene met in the romanisches Café. However, the colorful years of the Weimar Republic of the darkest in German history followed. In the 1930s, until its destruction by an air strike in 1943, the Ufa-Palast was the Propaganda movies of the Nazis.

One of many premieres at the Ufa-Palast: “Metropolis”, 1925

Long break after the war

It took a long time, until the location should be re-bloom. In a shattered Berlin in the postwar years, is more important than the reconstruction of a cinema, for whose visit no one of money would have had. Until 1955 the castle was demolished, in 1956, to Paul Schwebes and Hans Schoszberger, two designed during the reconstruction of the city’s busy architect, with your colleagues, the cinema projects the experienced Gerhard Fritsche, the Zoo Palast. The cinema was finally opened in 1957 with “The Zurich engagement” with Liselotte Pulver.

The light house was after the Blockade, a Symbol of the freedom and open to the world of West-Berlin. The Americans had already initiated in 1952, the Berlinale, which is held in the Zoo’s Palace their new home. From the Zoo, the Palace and the surrounding buildings, a Signal went out: The wreckage of the city had been given a new lease of life.

The romanisches Café was in the 1920s, the cultural scene meeting point

The competition is defied

Since then, the house has been through many UPS and Downs: a dwindling crowd, competition from video stores, the loss of the Berlinale, which was moved in 2000 to the Potsdamer Platz. The Zoo Palast was struggling with his loss of status and new viewing habits. The audience demanded from a movie, an event, a Multiplex cinema with huge screens and halls continued the tradition-rich houses that had to follow suit to Survive. The Zoo Palast experienced since the 1990s, a number of change of operator, the supernatant but all Depths, in contrast to many other the Ku’damm stages.

Since 2013, the Premium Entertainment GmbH, the former Cinemaxx management Board Hans-Joachim Flebbe operates the Zoo Palast. The company also performs several Astor Lounges, and relies on a premium cinemas with wide armchairs and a wardrobe. During the two-year renovation, the historic elements have been worked out, to have the feeling of the 1950s revival.

To mark the anniversary of the Ufa-Palace-opening 100 years ago, the Zoo Palast Seriously Lubitschs premiere film shows “Madame Dubarry”. To mark this occasion, the Metropolis orchestra, a theater orchestra, and silent film music classics also.

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