Theatres, arenas and venues to film in Germany
39 of them, 31 with a photo and 12 with practical details the location publishes itself. 1 have a documented shooting history. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Auditoriums, concert halls, opera houses, cinemas, arenas and event spaces, with the backstage, foyers and dressing rooms that come with them.
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Alte Oper Frankfurt
Theatre, arena & venue
Rebuilt 1880s opera house in Frankfurt, now a concert and congress venue with a restored historicist facade and a modern auditorium behind it.
Capacity: 2434 · Grosser Saal (Grand Hall): 2,064 m2, 17.5 m high, up to 2,434 in row seating, 1,150 to 1,228 banquet, 644 parliamentary. Mozart Saal: 817 m2, 6.2 m...
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Theatre, arena & venue
Two former market halls of steel and glass near the Hamburg city centre, now exhibition halls with column free floors and high daylight, also hired for events.
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documentaHalle
Theatre, arena & venue
A 1992 exhibition hall beside Kassel's Fridericianum, built for the documenta art show and also used for conferences, trade fairs, concerts and film screenings.
1,400 sqm of column-free exhibition space plus around 700 sqm of office, storage and cafeteria space
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Elbphilharmonie
Theatre, arena & venue
Concert hall on the Elbe in Hamburg's HafenCity, built above a former cocoa warehouse with a glass wave-shaped upper structure, a public plaza and two auditoriums.
Capacity: 2091 · Grand Hall: standard capacity 2,091, reducible to about 1,555 in some configurations; stage about 260 m2, playable area about 18 x 15 m; 31...
Erlebnis-Zoo Hannover
Theatre, arena & venue
Themed zoo in Hanover with built worlds standing in for a savannah, a jungle palace, a Canadian river and a fishing village, listed in the nordmedia guide.
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Fischauktionshalle
Theatre, arena & venue
Former fish auction hall of 1896 on the Altona waterfront, a cast iron and glass hall with galleries and a view of the Elbe, now hired for events and markets.
Fritz-Walter-Stadion
Theatre, arena & venue
Football stadium on the Betzenberg hill above Kaiserslautern, a steep four sided bowl with tight stands, dressing rooms and a wooded approach.
Galopprennbahn Iffezheim
Theatre, arena & venue
Horse racing course at Iffezheim near Baden-Baden, with grandstands, weighing room, paddock, restaurants and parkland around the track.
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Heinz von Heiden Arena
Theatre, arena & venue
Football stadium in the Maschsee park in Hanover, a bowl with a continuous roof, hospitality levels, dressing rooms and service corridors, also used for concerts.
Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal
Theatre, arena & venue
Concert and congress building of 1900 on the Johannisberg in Wuppertal, with a galleried great hall, stucco salons, staircases and foyers in period decoration.
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Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt
Theatre, arena & venue
A domed former engineering hall in Frankfurt-Hoechst with an iron-and-glass roof, used for concerts, ballet, comedy shows, congresses and corporate events.
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Kultur Gut Hasselburg
Theatre, arena & venue
Manor farm near the Baltic coast at Altenkrempe, with a thatched gatehouse barn used as a concert and event hall, stables, courtyards and open farmland.
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Kulturzentrum Schlachthof Wiesbaden
Theatre, arena & venue
A collectively run cultural centre in a former Wiesbaden slaughterhouse, now Hesse's largest socio-cultural venue with close to 400 events and 300,000 visitors a year.
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Kurhaus Wiesbaden
Theatre, arena & venue
A neoclassical spa and casino building from 1907, with a colonnaded facade, a domed festival hall and formal grounds, still run as an event and casino venue.
Lanxess Arena
Theatre, arena & venue
Indoor arena in Cologne's Deutz district with a bowl seating around 20,000, used for concerts, ice hockey, basketball and television productions.
Theatre seating configuration up to 5,300 seats; multiple restaurants (Backstage, Henkelmaennchen) and bar/catering areas on site (own site).
Liederhalle Stuttgart
Theatre, arena & venue
Listed 1950s culture and congress centre in Stuttgart, with three main halls, mosaic clad facades, foyers and staircases in period modernist detail.
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Max-Morlock-Stadion
Theatre, arena & venue
Nuremberg stadium completed in 1928 in Bauhaus style, home of 1. FC Nuernberg, with a red 400 metre running track around the pitch and a three storey VIP and media building.
Capacity: 50000
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MHP Arena Stuttgart
Theatre, arena & venue
Football stadium in the Neckarpark at Stuttgart, home of VfB Stuttgart, with steep stands, hospitality levels and media areas.
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Mueller'sches Volksbad
Theatre, arena & venue
Art nouveau public baths opened in Munich in 1901 and kept in original condition, with two pools, a Roman Irish steam bath, tub and shower baths and a Finnish sauna.
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Nürburgring
Theatre, arena & venue
Motor racing circuit in the Eifel hills with the 20.8-kilometre Nordschleife loop and a separate shorter Grand Prix track, plus paddock, grandstands and a visitor centre.
Seen in: Rush (2013)
RheinEnergieStadion
Theatre, arena & venue
Football stadium in Cologne with four corner floodlight towers, tiered stands, hospitality levels and back of house corridors, listed in the NRW location catalogue.
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Saarlaendisches Staatstheater
Theatre, arena & venue
State theatre of 1938 on the Saar in Saarbruecken, with a colonnaded front, an auditorium, stage machinery, workshops and rehearsal rooms.
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Theatre, arena & venue
Repertory theatre in Bochum with a 1950s auditorium, stage house and rehearsal spaces, one of Germany's leading state theatres.
Four venues: Schauspielhaus (up to 800 seats), Kammerspiele (400 seats), Oval Office (100 seats) and Theaterrevier (own site).
Schwimmoper Wuppertal
Theatre, arena & venue
A landmark 1950s indoor swimming hall with a sweeping shell roof, built for the 1957 German swimming championships and still in public use.
Staatstheater Stuttgart
Theatre, arena & venue
A large state theatre complex by the palace gardens, housing opera, ballet and drama stages behind an early-20th-century facade.
Stadtbad Chemnitz
Theatre, arena & venue
A Neue Sachlichkeit swimming hall completed in 1935, the largest and most modern in Europe at the time, with a clear and functional layout of interlocking pool spaces inside and out.
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Veltins-Arena
Theatre, arena & venue
Covered football stadium in Gelsenkirchen with a retractable roof, a sliding pitch, players' tunnel, dressing rooms and press areas, also used as a concert arena.
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Weserstadion
Theatre, arena & venue
Football stadium on the Weser in Bremen, a closed bowl clad in solar panels with steep stands, dressing rooms, press areas and a riverside approach.
Westfalenhallen
Theatre, arena & venue
Exhibition and event complex in Dortmund with several linked halls, including a large arena hall, built from the 1920s onward and still used for trade fairs, sport and concerts.
Westfalenhalle arena seats up to 16,140; Messe Dortmund exhibition space totals 60,000 sqm, divisible from 1,000 to 10,000 sqm; Kongress Dortmund...
Z-Bau Haus fuer Gegenwartskultur
Theatre, arena & venue
Former Nazi era barracks block in Nuremberg with a large car park, now a culture house with three concert stages, one a high ceilinged industrial style hall, plus bars, workshops and studios with graffiti inside and out.
5,500 sq m indoors and outdoors, access for lorries and articulated vehicles, large parking area, 16 A to 64 A outlets
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Zenith Halle
Theatre, arena & venue
Listed iron framed works hall built between 1916 and 1918 in Munich Freimann, used in turn as a Krupp press shop, a railway boiler smithy and an S-Bahn repair works, now a concert hall.
4,130 sq m, 11 m ceiling height, drive in access for cars and lorries, 16 A and 32 A power
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AquaMar Marburg
Theatre, arena & venue
Marburg's municipal sports and leisure pool, with indoor and outdoor basins, a water slide, a diving pool, a wellness and sauna area and a seasonal outdoor water park.
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Backstage Munich
Theatre, arena & venue
Event and culture centre of about 5,500 sq m on the former AGA Gas works site in Munich, split into Werk, Halle, Club and arena areas plus an open air stage, with the industrial fabric largely kept.
Indoor areas of about 800, 350, 150 and 1,200 sq m, no access restrictions, ample on site parking, standard supply to 63 A
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Congresshalle Saarbruecken
Theatre, arena & venue
Post war congress hall by the Saar in Saarbruecken with a large auditorium, foyers, meeting rooms and a modernist glazed front onto the riverside park.
Georg-Gassmann-Stadion
Theatre, arena & venue
Marburg's athletics stadium in the Ockershausen district, with a modern 400 metre synthetic running track and long jump, shot put and pole vault facilities.
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Gloria Kino Kassel
Theatre, arena & venue
A 1954 cinema at Kassel's Staendeplatz with 342 seats, green velvet upholstery, an original chandelier and its 1950s facade with black steel-letter signage still intact.
Capacity: 342
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Krystallpalast Variete Leipzig
Theatre, arena & venue
A variety theatre in Leipzig reviving the name of a celebrated venue destroyed in 1943, rebuilt in the 1990s behind a preserved historic facade in the Magazingasse.
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Leichtathletikhalle Erfurt (Hartwig-Gauder-Halle)
Theatre, arena & venue
An indoor athletics hall built in 1994 as part of the Erfurt-Sued sports centre, with a 200 metre indoor track and about 9,200 square metres of training and competition space.
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Olympiapark München
Theatre, arena & venue
1972 Olympic park in Munich with a tent-roofed stadium, hall and swimming venue around an artificial hill and lake, still used for concerts and sporting events.
The venue offers halls and spaces for 100 to 10,000 or more people, including the Olympiastadion (Olympic Stadium), Olympiahalle, Kleine Olympiahalle...
Theatres, arenas and venues elsewhere in Europe
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Other kinds of location in Germany
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- Bars, restaurants and shops 12
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