Musikbrauerei

About the Musikbrauerei

The Musikbrauerei is a historic event location and recording studio in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. It is located in the listed building ensemble of the former Schneider-Brauerei (Brauerei Schweizergarten), which was built in the late 1880s and produced beer from 1892 to 1914. Since the 1990s, Jens Reule Dantas has operated the UFO Sound Studios and later the Musikbrauerei event location; in 2006 he acquired the entire property and continued the historically faithful renovation. The ensemble comprises around 570 square metres of halls plus four cellar vaults up to 15 metres deep. On the ground floor are three adjacent halls, which can also be used together: a 180 sqm Recording Hall with oak parquet flooring, stage, bar, lighting and sound system; a 270 sqm Column Hall with brick walls, stone floor and 4-channel spatial sound; and the approximately 120 sqm former Schwank Hall with daylight and plank flooring. A professional recording studio is connected to the halls. The premises are rented for corporate events, weddings, concerts, parties, symposia, dinner parties as well as film and video productions; parts of the film "Ich und Kaminsky" starring Daniel Brühl were shot here.

Site

Berlin

Processes

Event location rental (corporate events, weddings, concerts, film and video productions), Professional recording studio (UFO Sound Studios) connected to the halls

Materials

Recording Hall (180 sqm), Column Hall (270 sqm), Schwank Hall (approx. 120 sqm), Four Cellar Vaults

Certificates

Listed building (Schneider's Brauerei, Berlin State Monuments Office)

Industries

Events and event industry, Music/audio production, Film and video production

1. 01

   Rental of the halls for events

2. 02

   Connection of the professional recording studio (UFO Sound Studios)

3. 03

   Film and video productions at the filming location

Premises & Equipment

Locations

Berlin

DE

Event location and recording studio (former Schneider-Brauerei)

Materials

Halls, cellar vaults

• Recording Hall with lighting and sound system
• Column Hall with 4-channel surround sound
• Professional recording studio (UFO Sound Studios)

Types of Use

Inside the production

Heritage Conservation & Equipment

The listed building ensemble was renovated in a historically faithful manner; the ruin of the roof structure from wartime was structurally stabilised and is preserved as a memorial. The halls have good acoustics and serve for concerts and sound recordings.

History

1. 1880er

   Construction of the Brauerei Schweizergarten (Schneiders Brauerei) by master builder Arthur Rohmer in the Bötzowviertel, Alt-Berlin

2. 1892

   Start of use as a beer brewery

3. 1914

   End of beer production (sources alternatively cite 1918)

4. 1921

   Lessee Willibald Paeschke concludes a contract with the widow Schneider for cultural use; a restaurant for 730 guests and a 60 m² stage are created

5. 1924

   Founding assembly of the Berlin local group of the Roter Frontkämpferbund in the magnificent halls

6. 1940er

   War damage; the deep cellar vaults serve as substitute bunkers; subsequently used as a car workshop and coal storage

7. DDR-Zeit

   Lightweight-structure offices, a kindergarten and a car workshop on the premises; cellar among other things used as a champignon mushroom cultivation facility

8. 1990er

   Jens Reule Dantas operates the UFO Sound Studios and later the Musikbrauerei event location

9. 1997–2002

   Interim use during the renovation of the remaining buildings

10. 2000

    Planned sports hall investor fails

11. 2006

    Jens Reule Dantas acquires the entire property and continues the historically faithful renovation