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ellington hotel berlin - the concept

The address alone is a classic: Nürnberger Strasse 50-55. It was here in the twenties and thirties that everyone who was anyone in Berlin danced in the famous Femina Palast, with its table telephones, pneumatic mail room, and roof hydraulics system which even allowed dancing in the open air. After the war, jazz fans met here at the "Badewanne“, the hottest jazz club in the city. In the seventies, the address was home to the legendary "Dschungel“ disco, where stars such as Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Carlos Santana, Iggy Pop and Barbra Streisand partied the night away...