Offices, schools and public buildings to film in Germany

Brahms Kontor

Hamburg

Office, school & public building

Brick office building of 1903 at Johannes-Brahms-Platz in Hamburg, with a stepped tower, marble entrance hall, paternoster and long office corridors.

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Bremen Town Hall

Bremen

Office, school & public building

Gothic and Weser Renaissance town hall on the Bremen market square, with a vaulted wine cellar, the upper hall, council rooms and a carved arcaded front.

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Chilehaus

Hamburg

Office, school & public building

Brick expressionist office block of 1924 in the Hamburg Kontorhaus quarter, with a ship's prow corner, arcaded passages, terracotta stairwells and office floors.

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Duisburg Innenhafen

North Rhine-Westphalia

Office, school & public building

A former inland harbour of grain silos and warehouses redeveloped into offices, restaurants and waterside promenades, keeping its industrial brick shells.

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Folkwang University of the Arts

North Rhine-Westphalia

Office, school & public building

Arts university in the former abbey buildings at Essen-Werden, with cloisters, rehearsal rooms, studios, lecture halls and a courtyard used for teaching.

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Gondwana Das Praehistorium

Saarland

Office, school & public building

Dark walk through museum on the former Reden colliery in Schiffweiler, with built prehistoric scenes indoors and the pit head buildings and slag heap outside.

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Hamburg Rathaus

Hamburg

Office, school & public building

Neo-Renaissance city hall of 1897 on the Rathausmarkt in Hamburg, with a 112-metre tower, an ornate facade and several hundred rooms including ceremonial halls.

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Hannover Congress Centrum

Lower Saxony

Office, school & public building

Congress complex in Hanover with a domed 1914 hall, modern conference rooms, foyers and a park setting, used for conferences, banquets and broadcasts.

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Heidelberg University

Baden-Wurttemberg

Office, school & public building

Germany's oldest university, with a baroque Old University building, a Great Hall and a historic student prison around Universitätsplatz in Heidelberg's old town.

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High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart

Baden-Wurttemberg

Office, school & public building

University supercomputing centre in Stuttgart Vaihingen, with machine halls of cabinets, cabling and cooling plant plus a visualisation laboratory.

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Kongresshalle Reichsparteitagsgelaende

Bavaria

Office, school & public building

Unfinished Nazi congress hall of 1935 to 1940 modelled on the Colosseum, 39 metres high and 240 by 200 metres outside, in bare brick with granite facing, with long corridors and colonnades around an open inner circle.

Very large spaces, storage areas, lift and sanitary facilities, extensive parking, normal and three phase power

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Ludwig Maximilian University Main Building

Bavaria

Office, school & public building

Main building of Munich's LMU built from 1835 to 1840 by Friedrich von Gaertner, with lecture halls, the Grosse Aula and interiors mixing historicism, art nouveau and neoclassicism, facing Geschwister-Scholl-Platz.

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Messe Stuttgart

Baden-Wurttemberg

Office, school & public building

Trade fair grounds beside Stuttgart airport, with large column free halls, a congress centre and a car park deck spanning the motorway.

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Museum Reinhard Ernst

Hesse

Office, school & public building

A museum of abstract art after 1945 in Wiesbaden, opened in 2024 in a building designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Fumihiko Maki.

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Rathaus Heppenheim

Hesse

Office, school & public building

A Renaissance town hall on Heppenheim's market square, rebuilt in Baroque style after a 1693 town fire, still the seat of the town administration and a protected monument.

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Rathaus Wernigerode

Saxony-Anhalt

Office, school & public building

A half-timbered Gothic and Renaissance town hall on Wernigerode's market square, a building group combining the Rathaus, a former weigh house and a later savings-bank building.

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Stadtbuecherei Muenster

North Rhine-Westphalia

Office, school & public building

City library of 1993 in Muenster, a split building of glass and brick with a reading gallery, open stacks, a bridge over the lane and public counters.

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Stadthaus Ulm

Baden-Wurttemberg

Office, school & public building

White modernist civic building by Richard Meier on the cathedral square in Ulm, holding exhibition rooms, a hall and a cafe against the gothic minster.

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World Conference Center Bonn

North Rhine-Westphalia

Office, school & public building

Conference complex on the former parliamentary quarter in Bonn, combining the old Bundestag plenary chamber with modern halls, lobbies and press rooms.

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World Trade Center Dresden

Saxony

Office, school & public building

An office complex in Dresden that is part of the worldwide World Trade Center network, with flexibly divided office units available for rent by the day.

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Autostadt Wolfsburg

Lower Saxony

Office, school & public building

Car-brand visitor park beside the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, with pavilions, glass delivery towers, a museum hall and landscaped grounds beside a canal.

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Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar

Thuringia

Office, school & public building

The founding site of the Bauhaus school, with Henry van de Velde's Art Nouveau studio building and later modernist extensions still used as a working university.

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Buropark Airfurt

Thuringia

Office, school & public building

An 11.3 hectare office and business park next to Erfurt airport, built in the 1990s with several built-up streets, a roundabout and cycle paths, home to logistics, IT and public-sector tenants.

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Deutsche Buecherei)

Saxony

Office, school & public building

The Leipzig home of Germany's national library, founded in 1912 and holding around 20 million items, in a purpose-built early 20th century building on Deutscher Platz.

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Deutsches Museum

Bavaria

Office, school & public building

Large science and technology museum on an island in the Isar in Munich, with historic machine halls, a planetarium and collections spanning mining to aerospace.

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Funkhaus Berlin

Berlin

Office, school & public building

A former East German state radio headquarters on the river Spree, with wood-panelled studios, offices and a large concert hall, run today as an event and production venue.

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Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main

Hesse

Office, school & public building

One of Germany's largest universities, with more than 158 degree programmes spread across four campuses in Frankfurt, linked by the city's public transport network.

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Gymnasium St. Augustin zu Grimma

Saxony

Office, school & public building

A grammar school in Grimma founded in 1450, housed since the 19th century in the former Augustinian monastery buildings, with its current facade dating from a full 1891 rebuild.

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Hauptgebaeude FSU Jena

Thuringia

Office, school & public building

The main Art Nouveau building of Friedrich Schiller University Jena, opened in 1908 for the university's 350th anniversary, with an asymmetrical three to four storey facade.

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Historisches Feuerwehrhaus Ketzerbach

Hesse

Office, school & public building

A two storey fire station built in 1911 on Ketzerbach in Marburg's old town, still in use by a volunteer fire brigade unit and keeping vintage engines and equipment on site.

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Historisches Rathaus Marburg

Hesse

Office, school & public building

The late-Gothic town hall of 1512 to 1527 on Marburg's Oberstadt market square, with a hexagonal stair tower, a historic council chamber for up to 120 people and two cells in its cellar.

Capacity: 120

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Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart

Baden-Wurttemberg

Office, school & public building

Media university on the Vaihingen campus in Stuttgart, with lecture rooms, a library, teaching studios and modern circulation space.

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Humboldt University of Berlin

Berlin

Office, school & public building

Berlin's oldest university on Unter den Linden, with a neoclassical main building, historic lecture halls, a courtyard and library reading rooms in the government district.

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Luebeck Town Hall

Schleswig-Holstein

Office, school & public building

Medieval brick town hall on the Luebeck market square with wind screen walls, an arcaded front, the audience hall and council chambers still in use.

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Merkurdome

Bavaria

Office, school & public building

Former publishing house and office site with halls at Wolfratshausen south of Munich, kept as a standing set for police stations, newsrooms, cells, hospital rooms and operating theatres.

200 sq m of set or production rooms plus halls of 1,000 and 540 sq m up to 12 m high, power and water outside for catering, 16 A and 64 A

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Ruhr University Bochum

North Rhine-Westphalia

Office, school & public building

A large 1960s brutalist university campus on a hillside above Bochum, with concrete tower blocks, lecture halls and connecting terraces.

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Stadtverwaltung Gera, Baudezernat (Amthorstrasse)

Thuringia

Office, school & public building

A 1970s office complex in Gera originally built for the district's socialist-era administration, with conference rooms, a wood-panelled canteen and a large event hall in near-original condition.

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Uberseestadt Bremen

Bremen

Office, school & public building

A former harbour district of quays, warehouses and cranes redeveloped into offices, studios and event spaces, keeping much of its industrial waterfront look.

The district's event locations page lists venues including Alte Werft Dock 1 (2,500 m2, max 850 guests), BOLZEREI (3,500 m2), Alte Kranhalle (2,000...

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Universitaet Witzenhausen

Hesse

Office, school & public building

The Witzenhausen campus of the University of Kassel, an internationally known centre for agricultural and international food science set in a small historic north Hesse town.

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University of Gottingen

Lower Saxony

Office, school & public building

A long-established university with a historic auditorium, library and mixed 19th and 20th century institute buildings across the old town of Gottingen.

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University of Tubingen

Baden-Wurttemberg

Office, school & public building

A historic university town campus on the Neckar river, mixing a medieval old town core with 19th and 20th century faculty buildings.

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Verlagsgebaeude der Leipziger Volkszeitung

Saxony

Office, school & public building

The central Leipzig headquarters of the city's largest daily newspaper, a historic industrial building converted into a modern office block with editorial rooms and meeting spaces.

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