urania [Berlin]
type: Item
label: Urania @nl
description: Theatre building in Berlin, Germany
description: bioscoop in Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Duitsland @nl
alternative label: urania
EUTA building identifier: 2746
Country: Germany
City: Berlin
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Wikidata source: Q896211
city section: Tempelhof-Schöneberg
Importance: Local importance
opening date: 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
Wikidata instance: Q15911314
Wikidata instance: Q41253
Carthalia ID: 1700
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: The 2nd Urania was built 1896 in Taubenstraße 48-49. The complex included a theatre hall (700 seats), a main auditorium (200 seats) and various smaller rooms. Also used as a premiere theatre for UFA documentary movies. Closed 1928. Destroyed in World War II. Built 1962 for the West Berlin private society, Deutsche Kultur-Gemeinschaft Urania Berlin e.V. Opened 10 Nov 1962. Used for scholarly, scientific, and popular lectures, cabaret performances, movies, concerts, and various other events. The complex includes numerous lecture rooms, a theatre hall, and two cinema halls (860 and 320 seats).In East Berlin, a popular scientific society was founded in 1954 that was renamed Urania in 1966. This society did not have an own building but operated in lecture rooms throughout the GDR. Dissolved in 1990 in favour of several regional organizations.] In West Berlin, a new society, Deutsche Kultur-Gemeinschaft Urania Berlin e. V. was founded in 1953. After years as a guest in schools and universities, the society opened a new Urania building in 1962 - see below.