Berlin, Mitte, Friedrichstrasse 101-102, Admiralspalast 01

The Admiralspalast (German for ''admiral palace'') is a 1,756-seat theatre on

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in the Mitte district of

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. Opened in 1910, it is one of the few preserved

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venues of the pre-

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era in the city. As a place of amusement the Admiralspalast originally included a skating rink, a public bath, bowling alleys, a café and a cinema open day and night. After

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it changed to a

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theatre, starting with the show ''Drunter und drüber'' by

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, later continued by the performance of operettas. As the building suffered little damage from World War II bombing, it was home to the

Berlin State Opera The (), also known as the Berlin State Opera (german: Staatsoper Berlin), is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany. The opera house was built by order of Prussian king Frederick the Great from ...

until the reconstruction of the Berlin State Opera house in 1955. On April 21–22 1946, the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Communist Party of Germany in the

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held a convention at the Admiralspalast where they merged to become the

Socialist Unity Party of Germany The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (german: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, ; SED, ), often known in English as the East German Communist Party, was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East German ...

. The performance of revues and operettas were continued under the name of until its disestablishment in 1997. The GDR Union of Journalists had its offices inside the Admiralspalast.Wilke, Jürgen, Julia Martin, Denis Fengler, and Marc Levasier.
Journalisten und Journalismus in der DDR: Berufsorganisation, Westkorrespondenten, "Der schwarze Kanal"
'. Köln: Böhlau, 2007. p. 20 On August 11, 2006, it reopened with ''

The Threepenny Opera ''The Threepenny Opera'' ( ) is a " play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, '' The Beggar's Opera'', and four ballads by François Villon, with mu ...

'', directed by

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* Theatres in Berlin Theatres completed in 1910 1910 establishments in Germany {{opera-struct-stub