The station is located under Karl-Marx-Allee directly east of Straße der Pariser Kommune.

Its architect was Alfred Grenander, who also designed the other stations of former line E, from Alexanderplatz to Friedrichsfelde, around the same time.

On 26 February 1945, the station was seriously damaged in a bombing raid and 200 people, mostly women and children, were killed.

In the mid-1990s, the tiles gradually began to fall from the walls, and the original name Memeler Straße became visible again.

In addition to work on the line itself, most of the stations were extensively renovated and the old tiles replaced with enamelled metal plates.

[4] Renovations of the waterproofing above the station have been underway since August 2009, resulting in the temporary closure of both north entrances to the station and the rerouting of westbound traffic on Karl-Marx-Allee onto the green spaces to the north side of the street.