Metropol-Theater [Berlin]
Admiralspalast
Theatre building in Berlin, Germany
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Metropol-Theater
Theater built on northern Friedrichstraße.
Built 1911 as Admiralspalast by Heinrich Schweitzer and Alexander Diepenbrock, replacing the Admiralsgartenbad spa (built 1873-1874). The complex included cafés, a cinema, a bowling centre, a luxury spa, and an ice rink at Planckstraße (accessible via a courtyard from Friedrichstraße). The ice rink could also be covered with a wooden floor in order to be used as a huge ballroom. - 1922 conversion of the ice rink into a variety theatre, Weltvarieté by Oskar Kaufmann and Richard Wolffenstein (1065 seats).