Kulturfabrik Moabit
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Kulturfabrik Moabit is a cultural co-operative in Moabit, Berlin, Germany located in a former factory and warehouse building, which contains a cinema, theatre and concert hall.
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[edit] History
The building located on Lehrter Straße, Moabit, Berlin was built in 1911 by Ernst Scharnke for Wertheim and was originally a meat factory, a biscuit factory and a home for many other aspects of Berlin industry besides. Between 1976 and 1991 the former factory was empty, its windows and doors boarded up.
In 1991, with the good will of the Senate of Berlin, the building was reopened and the Kulturfabrik (translated means Culture-factory) was born. Artists, locals and students came together to form a co-operative of non-profit clubs or associations, Theaterdock e.V. (theatre), Filmrauschpalast e.V. (cinema), Slaughterhouse e.V. (concerts) and Kunsthalle Moabit e.V. (art, this latter one existed until 1996). Kulturfabrik Lehrter Str. 35 e.V. serves as an overseer of the entire site and its composite associations.
[edit] Activities
The building contains a cafe-bar which is open most afternoons, a small concert hall for weekend gigs, a small cinema open most nights (one of the few remaining cinemas where an actual projectionist is still needed), a theatre for plays, a team of youthworkers offering courses for the young, and an open-air cinema during the summer months.
[edit] Trivia
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A scene from the film adaption of the novel Herr Lehmann was filmed in the Kulturfabrik's cinema.
