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Patriarch Brauner 2002 with family (Alice, Fela, Heinrich, Sammy, wife Maria): 200 million euros in land charges
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Georg Chlebarov / Brauer Photos
The Colosseum is not just any Berlin cinema.
In the GDR, the movie theater in Prenzlauer Berg, founded in 1924, was the premiere cinema par excellence.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall it was one of the fine venues for the Berlinale.
Artur Brauner, dazzling film producer and doyen of West German post-war films, once called his house the "most beautiful cinema in the world".
Brauner celebrated his 80th birthday with a lavish party in the Colosseum.
Vodka flowed to the kosher buffet, 500 guests were there, many celebrities from film and television.
Brauner, also known as "Atze", died last July at the biblical age of 100 years.
His descendants have never developed such an emotional bond with the cinema on Schönhauser Allee, which Brauner acquired in 1992.
What they see in the cinematic place of longing for their father is, above all, a property that can be developed and should generate substantial returns.
Real estate deals of the wealthy Berlin family usually go on without public attention, but the Colosseum has become a political issue.
Critics accuse the Brauners of sacrificing culture and jobs out of greed in capitalist fashion and using Corona as a pretext.
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