Admiral Nürnberg

Königstraße 11, 90402 Nürnberg

The Admiral on Koenigstrasse has stood at the heart of Nuremberg's commercial life since 1908, when the first Ton Bild Theater opened on this site. Destroyed in the war, rebuilt in 1957 as a thousand-seat picture palace, and reborn again in 2002 as a modern boutique multiplex with a rooftop Skybar, the Admiral has reinvented itself with each era while keeping its prime position on the city's main shopping street. Nuremberg's dual identity -- medieval splendour and difficult twentieth-century history -- gives its cultural institutions a particular gravity. The Admiral, now a premium cinema experience with five intimate halls, meets that gravity with style, proving that a cinema can be simultaneously historic and thoroughly contemporary.