COLOSSEUM

Schönhauser Allee 123
10437 Berlin

Screens: 10 (Berlinale: 1)
Seating capacity: 523
Screen size: 6,5 m x 15,2 m
The auditorium is accessible to wheelchairs

U-/S-Bahn Schönhauser Allee
Tram M1

In the mid-Twenties architects Max Bischoff and Fritz Wilms were hired to convert the old garages of the “Großen Berliner Pferdeeisenbahn AG” (horse railway) on Schönhauser Allee into a cinema. The Colosseum opened its doors for the first time on September 12, 1924 and was the first movie theatre in the working-class district of Prenzlauer Berg in the northeast of Berlin. The long, narrow theatre seated 1,200 people back then and was turned into a talkie theatre with 1,365 seats five years later. In 1957 was refitted to serve as a DEFA premiere cinema. The Colosseum has been operating as a multiplex ever since renewed construction work on the building was completed in 1997. In 2005, the Colosseum hosted Berlinale screenings for the first time.