Titania-Palast

[1] The Titania-Palast was designed by Ernst Schöffler, Carlo Schlönbach and Carl Jacobi, in the New Objectivity style, featuring a 30 metres (98 ft) "light tower", and a large Art Deco foyer.

The first German-language sound film shown, on 21 November 1929, was The Royal Box, starring Alexander Moissi.

The Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Leo Borchard, gave its first postwar concert there, on 26 May 1945, and in December 1948 the founding ceremony of the Free University of Berlin took place.

[2][3][4] Performers including Josephine Baker (in 1950), Marlene Dietrich (in 1960), Louis Armstrong, Maurice Chevalier and Yehudi Menuhin appeared at the Titania-Palast.

In 1995, the building was completely renovated and re-opened as the Cineplex Titania, with five screens and 505 seats.

Titania-Palast in 1928