Ostend Theater [Berlin]
type: Item
description: Theatre building in Berlin, Germany, opened 1877
alternative label: Ostend theater
EEConde: Berlin 40
Field: architecture
Type of information: Performance venue
City: Berlin
opening date: 1877-01-01T00:00:00Z
Country: Germany
Address: Große Frankfurter Straße / Karl-Marx-Allee 78-84
closure date: 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Architekturmuseum Berlin Inventory Number: TBS 035
Postal Code: 10342
city section: Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
Importance: Local importance
Preservation state: extinct building
Wikidata source: Q1239534
Carthalia ID: 1683
Note: Built 1877 as Ostend-Theater by Traugott Krahn. Opened 23 Dec 1877. 800 seats. The complex also included a café, a restaurant, and a summer garden theatre. 1896 renamed Carl-Weiss-Theater after the theatre owner, Carl Weiss. 1906 renamed Bernhard-Rose-Theater after the theatre owner, Bernhard Rose. Later renamed Rose-Theater. Garden theatre destroyed by bombs on 22-26 Nov 1943. Theatre converted into a cinema in 1944. Re-opened as Ufa im Rose-Theater on 27 Oct 1944 with the film Das Konzert. Destroyed by acts of warfare in April 1945. - [N. B. The currently operating Ostendtheater is located in another building in Boxhagener Straße 99.]