Theater landscapes

At the beginning of the last century, the building complex directly at Friedrichstraße station was one of the largest entertainment temples in Europe with a luxury Russian-Roman spa open day and night on 2,600 square meters, bowling alleys, a café, a movie theater and a large hall for ice hockey games and boxing matches.

The Admiralspalast was also considered the only ice palace in the world.
In the 1920s, it was converted into a revue and operetta theater and merged with the "Metropoltheater" in the 1930s.
After the end of the war, the "Deutsche Staatsoper" moved in until 1955 and the cabaret "Die Distel" opened.
From 1955 until the end of the 1990s, it was finally called the "Metropol Theater im Admiralspalast".
In 2003, five shareholders acquire the building complex, which is now a listed building, and after renovation and modernization, the new Admiralspalast Theater reopens in 2006 with the premiere of "The Threepenny Opera" in a production by Klaus Maria Brandauer.

Falk Walter guides us through the many construction sites in the building and explains his plan to gradually reopen the Admiralspalast as a modern multiplex of the arts and pleasures with a club, bathing establishment, gallery and café.
Director Klaus Maria Brandauer and his leading actor Campino talk about their experiences rehearsing "The Threepenny Opera" during the construction work.
Max Raabe wants to revive the flair of the 1920s in the Admiralspalast with his palace orchestra and Johannes Heesters describes how he sang operettas in the building back in the 1930s.
Numerous historical films and photographs bear witness to the eventful and rich history of the Admiralspalast.
In addition to revues from the twenties, GDR musicals from the sixties can also be seen.