'Kulturbrauerei Berlin' - image: Thomas Hausstein
The Kulturbrauerei is a large building complex in Prenzlauer Berg that was originally built as a brewery, but now serves as a cultural centre with a dance club, pop venue, museum, cinema, etc.
Jobst Schultheiss took over the brewery from August Heinrich Prell, who had founded it in 1842 in Berlin-Mitte, in 1863. Ill health forced Jobst Schultheiss to sell the brewery to merchant and royal supplier Adolf Riesicke.
As Berlin grew rapidly and demand for beer increased, a new brewery was built on Schönhauser Allee in Prenzlauer Berg. It was easier to build storage cellars at this location because it was on a hill and the groundwater level was lower. After modernisation and expansion, the company was converted into a public limited company in 1871 under the name Schultheiss' Brauerei Aktien-Gesellschaft.
Over the years, various expansions were carried out until the complex reached its current state in 1930. The building complex survived the Second World War relatively undamaged, allowing beer production to resume relatively quickly. Now as a Soviet public limited company.
In 1967, beer production at this location ceased and moved to Leninallee, now Landsberger Allee. From 1990 onwards, it was located on Indira-Gandhi-Straße in Berlin-Alt-Hohenschönhausen.
After the move, the East German state did not give the building complex any real new function, except for a youth centre and a furniture sales outlet, nor did it house any other businesses there. The buildings fell into disrepair. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Truehandliegenschaftgesellschaft took over the site and young artists and musicians squatted parts of the complex and founded the Kulturbrauerei foundation. They gave the beer brewery its name.
In the 1990s, the artists were given rental contracts and the organisation was improved. After a major renovation from 1998 to 2000, the Kulturbrauerei took on its current form, with a few minor changes.
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