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U2’s first Berlin concert took place here in the Kant Cinema in Berlin-Charlottenburg on 17 February 1981. With Hamburg and Munich it was the first time ever the band played in Germany.
Built in 1912, the Kant Cinema originally featured a large hall with a gallery on both sides, but was later transformed into several smaller cinemas. In the 1970es and 1980es the cinema was increasingly used as a concert hall as well. In 2001 a threat of being closed down was prevented by Wim Wenders, the movie distributor Christoph Ott and the owners of the cinema in the Hackeschen Höfe, Gerhard Groß and Burkhard Voiges. It reopened in 2002 under the name Neue Kant-Kinos (New Kant Cinemas).
Adress
Kantstraße 54, 10627 Berlin
Directions
Berlinkarte Nr. 10 | Nearest U-Bahn station: Wilmersdorfer Str. (U7). From the station turn into Kantstraße. The cinema is right there on the left.
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