Kulturbrauerei

Kulturbrauerei, Berlin

The Berlin Kulturbrauerei (literally "Culture Brewery") is a 25,000-square-metre (270,000 sq ft) building complex in Berlin, Germany. Originally built and operated as a brewery, its courtyards and unique architecture have been protected as a monument since 1974 and it is one of the few well-preserved examples of industrial architecture in Berlin dating from the end of the 19th century.

It is supported by the Treuhandliegenschaftsgesellschaft (TLG) and operated commercially as a cultural centre in the Kollwitz neighborhood of the Prenzlauer Berg district (Borough of Pankow). It provides cinemas, theatres, clubs and function rooms. It is situated close to the Eberswalder Straße U-Bahn station.

Kulturbrauerei today

Today, regular events, concerts and festivals take place at Kulturbrauerei. Some organisations that settled on the site of the former brewery complex are:

• Kino in der Kulturbrauerei, cinema with eight screens, one of Berlin's first run theatres
• Theater RambaZamba
• P.A.N.D.A. Nicht nur Russisches Theater, event location for Russian concerts, reading etc.
• Literaturwerkstatt Berlin/lyrikline.org
• office and studio of the band 17 Hippies
• Restaurant frannz and frannz Klub (formerly known as Franz-Club)
• Kesselhaus in der Kulturbrauerei|Kesselhaus, event location
• Alte Kantine, event location
• Soda Club, dance club
• Club 23, dance club
• Palais, event location
• Schule für Bildende Kunst und Gestaltung, art school
• Museum in the Kulturbrauerei, museum on everyday life in the GDR, Haus der Geschichte foundation
• Ch. Links Verlag, publishing house
• be.bra verlag, publishing house
• New York University, Berlin branch
• Berlin on Bike, organizer of bicycle tours
• TIC Tourist Information Center^[1]
• Quandoo, restaurant reservation platform