Berlin: Wintergarten (old)

Country: Germany (Deutschland)
State: Berlin
City: Berlin
Location: Mitte, Friedrichstraße 143-149 / Dorotheenstraße 18 (in the "Central-Hotel")

Built 1880 by Hermann von der Hude as winter garden for the guests of the Central-Hotel. Originally used for concerts and balls. From 1884, used as a theatre. From 1888, used as a variety theatre. Destroyed by bombs in January and March 1944.

[In 1992, a new "Wintergarten" variety theatre opened at another location in Potsdamer Straße 96.]

Links: EUTA, Wikipedia

Berlin: Wintergarten (old) Front Text: "Gruss aus dem Wintergarten Berlin"
Publisher: Kunstanstalt Arnold Weylandt, Berlin N.
Type: Undivided Back
Size: Classic
Sent: from Germany to Beregszász (Hungary, now Berehove, Ukraine), 1900

Berlin: Wintergarten (old) Front Text: "Wintergarten. Théâtre Varieté. Central-Hotel Berlin"
Publisher: Verlag Central-Hotel Berlin; "Verkauf 10 Pfennig"
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Not sent.

Berlin: Wintergarten (old) Front Text: "Wintergarten, Berlin. Théâtre Variété", "Fremdenloge"
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Sent: from Berlin to Pirmasens, 1911

Berlin: Wintergarten (old) Front Text: "Wintergarten"
Reverse Text: "Wintergarten - Das führende Varieté! Rauchen erlaubt - Diner Terrasse", "In Berlin: Vor allen Dingen Wintergarten!" (see detail)
Size: Modern
Not sent.

Reverse detail:
Berlin: Wintergarten (old)

Berlin: Wintergarten (old) Front Text: "Wintergarten - 10 Star-Nummern auf einmal! - Bühnen-Öffnung 28 m - Beste Sicht von allen Plätzen."
Reverse Text: "Wintergarten - Das führende Varieté! Rauchen erlaubt - Diner Terrasse", "Berlin: Vor allen Dingen Wintergarten!"
Size: Modern
Not sent.

Berlin: Wintergarten (old) Front Text: "Grösste Heiterkeit im Winter-Garten", signed: Fritz Wolff
Reverse Text: "Fritz Wolff, Wintergarten. Um 1914. [...] Museum für Deutsche Geschichte, Berlin. SBM 320"
Publisher: Planet-Verlag, Berlin; A-4-320749/86/III/26/13 HB6 8752
Type: 1986 reproduction of a ca. 1914 poster (see also Commons)
Size: Modern
Not sent.

Berlin: Wintergarten (old) Front Text: "Berlin um 1930, Friedrichstraße", right, on sign: "Wintergarten"
Reverse Text: "Berlin um 1930. Großstädtisches Leben am Bahnhof Friedrichstraße. Der 'Wintergarten' im Central Hotel war ein berühmtes Varieté."
Publisher: Skowronski & Koch Verlag, Berlin; 4260002640024
Type: c. 2000s reproduction of a ca. 1930 photograph
Size: Modern
Not sent.

Berlin: Wintergarten (old) Front Text: on signs: "Central-Hotel", "Wintergarten", on poster: "Herrliches Varieté!"
Reverse Text: "Berlin, Friedrichstraße"
Type: Real Photo
Size: Classic
Sent: from Berlin to Bucovice (Czech Republic), ca. 1933-1944 [stamp and postmark removed]

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