Guided tour of the city with Ticket B
The walk takes you through the second phase of the Karl-Marx-Allee and includes visits to the interiors of the Kino International cinema and Café Moskau. This allows you to experience Josef Kaiser’s architecture in the very places where it remains an integral part of the city to this day.
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Schnepp Renou, Kino International, 2026, Entwurf: Kollektiv Josef Kaiser
Off into the future! It was under this motto that the second phase of the Karl-Marx-Allee was built in the early 1960s.
There had been a shift away from the grandiose ‘national architectural style’ of the early Stalinallee: it was too expensive, too labour-intensive to implement and increasingly discredited politically. It was replaced by a new vision of architecture and the city – characterised by industrial building methods, modern structures and a new design language. One of the architects who played a key role in shaping this transformation was Josef Kaiser. The Kino International cinema and Café Moskau, built to his designs, became two of the most striking public buildings on Karl-Marx-Allee.
This collaboration is taking place to mark the exhibition ‘Josef Kaiser. Building for the GDR’ at the Berlinische Galerie.
TICKETS
- Tel +49 30 420 26 96 20
- info@ticket-b.de
Upcoming dates
- Tue 5 Jan 27, 11.00 – 13.30
IN GERMAN
