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Reopened to the public in 2006, the Admiralspalast was originally a bathhouse and club for Prussian soldiers to relax in. Rebuilt in 1911, it was famous in Berlin's Roaring 20s for its cabaret, operetta house, spa and brothel. Hitler cleaned up the acts in the 1930s, installing a private box so that he could watch his favourite operetta 'The Merry Widow', and in the 1940s the building was spared war damage. Bertold Brecht used the theatre for his eyebrow-raising new theatre in the 1950s and 60s before the theatre went into decline. Now the complex just north of Friedrichstrasse station has been restored (without the brothel this time) and is a new centre of nightlife, and soon will also have a club and spa complex again.
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