Admiralspalast
The Admiralspalast—German for “Admiral Palace”—was built as a major leisure destination on the former site of the 1873 Admiralsgarten bath house, and it opened as a theatre on Friedrichstraße in 1910. With 1,756 seats, it became one of Berlin’s few preserved pre–World War II variety venues, moving from an amusement mix that included a skating rink, public bathing, bowling, and cinema into a revue theatre after World War I. Its wartime survival mattered: the building suffered little damage from the bombing, and it later hosted the Berlin State Opera until 1955. On April 21–22, 1946, it also held a political convention in the Soviet occupation zone, when the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Communist Party of Germany merged to form the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. After revues and operettas continued under the Metropol-Theater name, the venue closed in 1997. …
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