
Seestraße 94, 13353 Berlin
The Alhambra on Seestrasse in Berlin-Wedding traces its lineage to 1916, when the first Apollo Kino opened on this site with three hundred seats. Destroyed in the war, rebuilt in 1953 in Art Deco style, demolished again in 2001, and reborn as a modern seven-screen multiplex -- the Alhambra's biography mirrors Wedding's own cycles of destruction and reinvention. Today it serves one of Berlin's most diverse neighbourhoods, where Turkish grocers, African restaurants, and old Berlin Eckkneipen share a single block. Its nearly fourteen hundred seats make it a substantial presence in a district that refuses to stand still.