The Ufa-Palast am Zoo, located near

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in the

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area of

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, was a major

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cinema owned by

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, or Ufa. Opened in 1919 and enlarged in 1925, it was the largest cinema in Germany until 1929 and was one of the main locations of film premières in the country. The building was destroyed in November 1943 during the

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and replaced in 1957 by the

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History

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building at Hardenbergstraße was designed as an exhibition hall by architect Carl Gause (1851–1907), an alumnus of the

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who had also drawn plans for the

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. Like the '' Romanisches Haus'' nearby, the design followed the model of the

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at Auguste-Viktoria-Platz (present-day Breitscheidplatz), built in 1891–1895 according to plans by

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. The development of a "Romanesque forum" met the demands of Emperor

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who even set guidelines for the design of streetlights and

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power lines. Construction work took place from 1905 to 1906; the building complex initially hosted the ''Ausstellungshallen am Zoologischen Garten'' exhibition halls, named after the adjacent Berlin Zoo. In 1912, Arthur Biberfeld converted the western hall into a theatre. In 1913–15, projection facilities were installed by

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for the première of the film ''

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'', produced by the Italian

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company, and from 1913 to 1914, the theatre was called the ''Cines-Palast''.Ehemaliger Ufa-Palast am Zoo
Lexikon: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf von A bis Z, Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, City of Berlin, retrieved 19 December 2012 The other section of the building housed a café and variety theatre called the ''Wilhelmshallen''. In 1919, architect

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rebuilt it for Ufa as a 1,740-seat cinema, which opened on 18 September 1919 with the première of

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's ''

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''.Klaus Kreimeier, trans. Robert and Rita Kimber, ''The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945'', 1996, repr. Berkeley: University of California, 1999,
p. 56
referring to the film by its U.S. title, ''Passion''.Marc Silberman, ''German Cinema: Texts in Context'', Detroit: Wayne State University, 1995,
p. 3
The cinema had a rectangular auditorium with two levels of proscenium boxes and the remaining seating arranged in horseshoe-shaped rows.

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praised the sightlines from the amphitheatre-style seating and the "discreet" and "tasteful" colour scheme; the décor was simple, with faïence panels around the screen. In 1925, the cinema was again rebuilt by

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; it was enlarged to 2,165 seats by the addition of a balcony, the lighting was improved, and an illuminated cinema organ was added. The interior décor by Samuel Rachman resembled that of

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cinemas. It was the largest cinema in Germany until the 1929 opening of the Ufa-Palast in Hamburg, which was at that time the largest in Europe. The reopening on 25 September 1925 was overseen by

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, a former employee of the American cinema impresario "Roxy" Rothafel who was brought over by Ufa together with Alexander Oumansky, who had been ballet director at Roxy's Capitol Theatre, to introduce US-style cinema shows to Germany. They were given an 85-member orchestra plus a jazz band, and Roxy himself came to offer assistance. The ''

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'' reported that the American "combination of symphony concert, ballet and film" had been successfully imported to Germany for the first time. Rapee stayed on for almost a year as manager and as Ufa's senior music director, in which role he arranged music to accompany several films; he left after supervising the opening of Ufa's new

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across the square. Berlin's own Capitol cinema, designed by

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, also opened in 1925 as a nearby competitor to the Ufa-Palast; by 1928, when

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made a speech denouncing the entertainment and other business venues there, Berlin's premier cinemas were clustered close together around the

and some had deliberately sought to make it the "Broadway of Europe". Following the renovation, the exterior was used for advertising, designed by Ufa's scenic designer

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. This began with light displays and large posters and progressed to complete transformations of the appearance of the building. For example, for ''

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'' in 1928, a gigantic stylised eye stared out of the centre of the façade and the letters of the title, written across the whole width of the central bay, became pupils which emitted searchlights; for ''

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'' in 1929, the façade was draped in lights to evoke stars, and above the entrances skyscraper cities jutted out, from the centres of which model spaceships travelled to a moon globe and back; and for ''

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'', also in 1929, a huge transparency of a street scene—taken from the credits—was mounted on the front of the building, with speeding cars in the foreground, and alternately lighted and darkened; wooden gates swung closed in front of it, with the title written on them in letters blazing with light.Ward
p. 157
Fig. 37. p. 158. The exception was

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's ''

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'', which received a double première on 10 January 1927: the gala première at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo was attended by President Hindenburg but advertised only by a sign above the entrance reading ''Welturaufführung'' (world première), while the smaller première, primarily for the press, took place at the smaller

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(Germany's first purpose-built cinema, dating to 1912), which for the occasion was painted silver and illuminated "gleam nglike a beacon into the night", as a contemporary reviewer put it, and had a gong mounted over the main entrance; the film's brief German run continued there. Under the Nazis, for important occasions like the 1935 première of

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's ''

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'' and the March 1943 celebration of Ufa's own 25th anniversary,

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modified the façadeSteven Bach, ''Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl'', New York: Knopf, 2007,
p. 138
and it was dressed with large numbers of swastika flags spotlighted from below and with a huge eagle.Kreimeier
p. 254
For the

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in Berlin, Speer designed a false front in simplified classical style. The following year, the remainder of the façade was similarly covered and heavy masonry pylons evoking the entrance to the Olympic Stadium set on either side of the entrance;Bach, ''Leni''
p. 164
one architectural historian has noted that except for the lack of windows and the decoration with film posters rather than government symbols, the building then looked very like Speer's

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. The building was destroyed by bombing on 23 November 1943. The Zoo Palast was built on the site in 1957, built as a large

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cinema for the

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, and fully renovated in 2011–2013.

Use for premières

The Ufa-Palast am Zoo was one of the main locations for film premières in Germany.Michael Bienert
Ufa-Palast
Erich Kästners Berliner Adreßbuch, retrieved 19 December 2012 These included:

Premières under the Weimar Republic

* 18 September 1919: ''

'' * 4 December 1919: '' Die Puppe'' * 14 December 1920: ''

Anna Boleyn ''Anna Boleyn'', also known as ''Deception'', is a 1920 German historical film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It stars Henny Porten as Anne Boleyn and Emil Jannings as King Henry VIII. The film was produced by Paul Davidson's Union Film, a ...

'' * 9 March 1920: '' Kohlhiesels Töchter'' * 1 September 1920: ''

Sumurun ''Sumurun'' (a.k.a. ''One Arabian Night'') is a 1920 German silent film directed by Ernst Lubitsch based on a pantomime by . Plot A company of travelling performers arrive at a fictional oriental city. It includes the beautiful dancer Yannaia, ...

'' * 29 October 1920: '' Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam''Frances Guerin, "Dazzled by the Light: Technological Entertainment and Its Social Impact in 'Varieté'", ''Cinema Journal'' 42.4, Summer 2003, pp. 98–115
p. 113, note 22
* 14 April 1921: '' Die Bergkatze'' * 22 October 1921: '' Das indische Grabmal'' (Part 1) * 19 November 1921: ''Das indische Grabmal'' (Part 2) * 27 April 1922: '' Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler'' (Part 1)Lotte H. Eisner, ''Fritz Lang'', London: Secker & Warburg, repr. New York: Da Capo, 1976,
p. 408
* 26 May 1922: ''Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler'' (Part 2) * 13 November 1922: ''

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'' * 7 January 1924: '' Die Finanzen des Großherzogs'' * 14 February 1924: ''

Die Nibelungen ''Die Nibelungen'' ("The Nibelungs") is a two-part German series of Silent film, silent fantasy films created by Austrian director Fritz Lang in 1924, consisting of ''Die Nibelungen: Siegfried'' and ''Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge''. Th ...

'' (Part 1) * 26 April 1924: ''Die Nibelungen'' (Part 2) * 23 December 1924: '' Der letzte Mann'' * 16 November 1925: ''

Varieté ''Variety'' ( , also known by the alternative titles ''Jealousy'' or ''Vaudeville'') is a 1925 German silent drama film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont based on the 1912 novel '' The Oath of Stephan Huller'' by Felix Hollaender. The trapeze ...

'' * 14 October 1926: ''

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'' * 17 December 1926: '' The Holy Mountain''"Chronology", Rainer Rother, tr. Martin H. Bott, ''Leni Riefenstahl: The Seduction of Genius'', London/New York: Continuum, 2002, , pp. 223–32
pp. 223–26
* 10 January 1927: ''

'' * 24 January 1927: '' Eine Dubarry von heute'' * 22 March 1928: ''

''Eisner, ''Fritz Lang''
p. 409
* 18 February 1929: ''

'' * 27 August 1929: ''

Der Würger ''The Wrecker'' () is a 1929 British-German sound crime film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Carlyle Blackwell, Joseph Striker, and Benita Hume. The sound version was a Part-Talkie prepared by Tiffany-Stahl Productions and was copyri ...

'' * 15 October 1929: ''

'' * 17 September 1930: '' The Copper'' * 11 May 1931: '' M'' * 31 August 1931: '' Bombs on Monte Carlo'' * 26 November 1931: ''

Der Draufgänger ''The Daredevil'' () is a 1931 German crime film directed by Richard Eichberg and starring Hans Albers, Gerda Maurus and Mártha Eggerth.Bock & Bergfelder p. 105 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Minzloff and Jacek Rotmil. ...

'' * 24 March 1932: ''

Das blaue Licht ''The Blue Light'' () is a black-and-white 1932 film directed by Leni Riefenstahl and written by Béla Balázs with uncredited scripting by Carl Mayer. In Riefenstahl's film version, the witch, Junta, played by Riefenstahl, is intended to be a ...

'' * 8. August 1932: ''

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'' * 12 October 1932: '' Der schwarze Husar'' * 19 November 1932: ''

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'' * 22 December 1932: '' F.P.1 antwortet nicht''

Premières in the Third Reich until the outbreak of World War II

* 2 February 1933: '' Morgenrot'' * 9 May 1933: '' Ein Lied geht um die Welt'' * 15 August 1933: ''

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'' * 30 August 1933: ''

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'' * 1 December 1933: '' Sieg des Glaubens'' * 8 December 1933: ''

Flüchtlinge ''Refugees'' (German: ''Flüchtlinge'') is the 1933 German drama film, directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Hans Albers, Käthe von Nagy, and Eugen Klöpfer. It depicts Volga German refugees persecuted by the Bolsheviks on the Sino-Russian ...

'' * 29 March 1934: ''

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'' * 12 March 1935: '' Artisten'' * 28 March 1935: ''

'' * 19 November 1935: ''

Frisians in Peril ''Frisians in Peril'' (German: ''Friesennot'') is a 1935 German drama film directed by Peter Hagen and starring Friedrich Kayßler, Jessie Vihrog and Valéry Inkijinoff. Made for Nazi propaganda purposes, it concerns a village of ethnic Frisians ...

'' * 30 December 1935: '' Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht'' * 23 January 1936: '' Traumulus'' * 10 July 1936: '' Weiberregiment'' * 16 October 1936: ''

Stadt Anatol ''City of Anatol'' () is a 1936 German drama film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Horney and Fritz Kampers. It is based on a 1932 novel ''City of Anatol'' by Bernhard Kellermann. The film is set in a small c ...

'' * 23 December 1936: ''

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'' * 15 July 1937: ''

Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war ''The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes'' (German: ''Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war'') is a 1937 German mystery comedy film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann and Marieluise Claudius. The film's sets were designed by t ...

'' * 20 August 1937: '' Alarm in Peking'' * 19 October 1937: '' Der zerbrochene Krug'' * 21 December 1937: ''

Gasparone ''Gasparone'' is an operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker to a German libretto by Friedrich Zell and Richard Genée. The libretto was later revised by and . An amusing feature of the work is that the title character never appears and acts as ...

'' * 6 January 1938: '' Der Berg ruft'' * 11 February 1938: '' Der Tiger von Eschnapur'' * 20 April 1938: '' Olympia'' * 26 February 1938: '' Das indische Grabmal'' * 1 April 1938: '' Fünf Millionen suchen einen Erben'' * 18 October 1938: '' Dreizehn Stühle''

Premières during World War II

* 20 March 1940: '' Stern von Rio'' * 28 November 1940: '' Der ewige Jude'' * 6 December 1940: '' Bismarck'' * 30 December 1940: ''

Wunschkonzert ''Wunschkonzert'' (''Request Concert'') is a 1940 German drama propaganda film by Eduard von Borsody. After '' Die große Liebe'', it was the most popular film of wartime Germany, reaching the second highest gross. Background The popular music s ...

'' * 14 February 1941: ''

Ohm Krüger ''Ohm Krüger'' (English: ''Uncle Krüger'') is a 1941 German biographical film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich, and Werner Hinz. It was one of a series of major propaganda films produced in Nazi Germany ...

'' * 12 June 1942: ''

Die große Liebe ''The Great Love'' (German: ''Die große Liebe'') is a 1942 German drama film directed by Rolf Hansen and starring Zarah Leander, Viktor Staal and Grethe Weiser. It premiered in Berlin in 1942 and went on to become the most commercially success ...

'' * 5 March 1943: '' Münchhausen''

Gala premières following first showing elsewhere

* 15 November 1929: '' The White Hell of Pitz Palu'' * 19 September 1933: '' Hitlerjunge Quex'' * 23 September 1936: ''

Der Bettelstudent ''Der Bettelstudent'' (''The Beggar Student'') is an operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker with a German libretto by Camillo Walzel (under the pseudonym of F. Zell) and Richard Genée, based on ''Les noces de Fernande'' by Victorien Sardou ...

'' * 17 March 1939: ''

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'' * 15 August 1939: ''

Es war eine rauschende Ballnacht ''The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky'' or ''It Was a Lovely Night at the Ball'' () is a 1939 German historical drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Zarah Leander, Aribert Wäscher and Hans Stüwe.Reimer & Reimer p. 119 It premiered on ...

'' * 26 September 1939: ''

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'' * 19 January 1940: ''

Wir tanzen um die Welt Wir, WIR or WiR may also refer to: Organisations * WIR Bank, a complementary currency system in Switzerland * Washington and Idaho Railway * West India Regiments, a colonial regiment of the British Army * Wolność i Równość, a Polish politic ...

'' * 24 September 1940: ''

Jud Süß (, ) is a 1940 Nazi German historical drama/propaganda film produced by Terra Film at the behest of Joseph Goebbels. Considered one of the most antisemitic films of all time, the film was directed by Veit Harlan, who co-wrote the screenplay w ...

'' * 23 October 1941: ''

Heimkehr ''Homecoming'' (German: ''Heimkehr'') is a 1941 Nazi German anti-Polish propaganda film directed by Gustav Ucicky. Filled with heavy-handed caricature, it justifies extermination of Poles with a depiction of relentless persecution of ethnic Germ ...

'' The première of

's ''

Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse'' (), also called ''The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse'', is a 1933 German crime-thriller film directed by Fritz Lang. The movie is a sequel to Lang's silent film '' Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (1922) and features many cast ...

'', like those of his earlier films, was scheduled to be held at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo, on 23 March 1933, but was cancelled when the film was banned by the Nazis.Gösta Werner, "Fritz Lang and Goebbels: Myth and Facts", ''Film Quarterly'' 43.3, Spring 1990, pp. 24–27
p. 25

References

External links

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