
Journal · Plenary
A staff meeting venue in Berlin, with the plenary in the main hall
A staff meeting counts when a question from the last row reaches the front. A microphone only on the stage leaves the house silent. Cantinerie is in Gesundbrunnen, Berlin-Mitte, on the AEG grounds. The plenary sits or stands in the main hall. A party in the same hour only if the plan says so.
In short
A staff meeting in Berlin-Mitte needs the floor to be heard. Cantinerie stands in Gesundbrunnen, in Mitte. The main hall holds about 400 guests seated or about 600 standing. About 600 is the standing reception, not a row of chairs. Microphones sit in the room, not only on stage. Questions need time in the running order. A party in the same hour only if the plan says so.
Place
Building 17 in Gesundbrunnen, borough of Mitte
Many people arrive for a plenary in the same minute. The address is building 17, Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin, ground floor. The borough is Mitte, the locality Gesundbrunnen. S Humboldthain is about a ten-minute walk. From Hauptbahnhof, train and foot take about 30 minutes. Wedding is only the former borough name.
U8 Voltastraße and Gesundbrunnen station are nearby. We invent no minutes for them. Parking exists, and it does not replace the footpath when several hundred people arrive in the same minute. The footpath is the plan for the whole house. The van is only the build.
The walk-through checks whether a question from the back arrives at the front, not whether the room looks large in a photograph. See only the stage and you have planned an address. A meeting needs the route to a microphone in the room.
The plenary and the questions are set out on the corporate event page.
Hall
Main hall: about 400 seated or about 600 standing
The main hall, more than 600 square metres, holds about 400 guests seated or about 600 standing. Not both at once. Seated, a question from the room needs a place. Standing, it is a short briefing, not a party. About 600 is the standing reception, not a row of chairs.
A platform and wheelchair places come off the figure of about 400. A row or a parliament layout in the main hall is on request only, from that build. Every figure is a guide, not a blanket clearance. Philosophia, about 180 square metres, is not a second plenary to add.
The terrace, about 400 square metres, holds about 500 standing and about 300 at a banquet. That is a reception after the meeting, not an extra on the hall. Open air, about 5,000 people, is outdoors only and is not a plenary.
Running order
Questions from the floor, time in the main hall order
The running order writes the minutes for questions before the first slide exists. An address that fills the hour is not a meeting of the house. Slides go before the questions go. Three people standing at once need an order, not three microphones at once.
Microphones stand in the room, not only on the stage. They are tested in the empty main hall, from the back toward the front. If the question cannot be heard, there is no meeting, however full the room. The room microphone has a place that leaves the aisle clear.
A party starts only when the plan says the meeting has ended. In the same hour the bar stays shut. Water may be there. A glass during a question is the wrong sound. The kitchen waits for that line.
Weather
A reception after only on its own plan, terrace kept apart
The plenary stays in the main hall, in rain and in sun. A reception afterwards on the terrace, about 500 standing, only if the plan splits the hour and the weather holds. Otherwise there is no party tacked on. The 500 is not laid onto the 400 or the 600.
In winter a later reception stays indoors, on the hall figure, not the terrace figure. About 300 banquet places outside are not a second plenary. Open air for about 5,000 people is not clipped onto a staff meeting. Two formats stay two clocks.
Production
Microphones in the room, sound across the main hall
Catering, the bar, sound and light stay with Cantinerie. One producer keeps the room microphone and the bar apart. The bar does not open over the last question. A second sound firm in the aisle crosses the route the question should travel.
Delivery is at ground level, the van clear of the entrance. Cables do not lie on the route to the microphone. Radios stay behind the line from the walk-through. The test of a question happens before the kitchen cooks a later reception.
People see a plenary and a microphone in the room. They do not see a second desk. Sound and the bar belong in one hand.
Limit
No party in the same hour in the main hall
A party in the same hour is not a plenary. If you want both, split the clock in the plan before the invitation goes out. The hall does not hold a party on top of the questions. About 400 seated and about 600 standing are not added.
We publish no fixed row count for the main hall. A row or a parliament layout is on request only. About 600 is the standing reception, not a row of chairs. Philosophia, about 100 at a banquet or about 200 in a row, is not counted into the hall.
Five hundred set places leave this hall. Open air, about 5,000 across up to 5,000 square metres, stops at the door. No firm is named here. Every figure is a guide, not a blanket clearance. Logos elsewhere are not a headcount.
Arrival
A surge in the same minute, Humboldthain, building 17
Building 17 is on the ground floor. The entrance is step-free and the venue is fully accessible. The route must stay clear to a microphone in the room, not only to the door. Width for a wheelchair comes off the seated figure of about 400.
S Humboldthain is about a ten-minute walk. U8 Voltastraße and Gesundbrunnen station are nearby. Guests check railway lifts themselves. We promise no lift. When several hundred arrive in the same minute, the footpath is the plan and parking is the build.
Walk-through
What the walk-through settles for the plenary in the main hall
Before the meeting we stand at the back of the empty main hall and ask a question in a normal voice. If it does not arrive at the front, the date is not ready. Microphones stand in the room, not only on the stage, and they are tested empty. The microphone place leaves the aisle clear. A platform that hides the last row moves. Skip this test and you invite the house and leave it silent.
Then we put the minutes into the running order, in ink. A speech that uses everything is not a meeting of the house. Slides go before the questions go. If three people stand, there is an order and one microphone that travels, not a muddle at the stage. The bar stays shut in that block. The kitchen knows the line and does not cook a reception into the question. Without the minutes on the page we do not confirm the date.
We choose one figure. About 400 seated or about 600 standing, not both, not as a sum. About 600 is the standing reception, not a row of chairs. If people sit, a row or a parliament layout stays on request, and the stage and wheelchairs come off the number. The route to a microphone stays step-free. Philosophia, about 180 square metres, about 100 at a banquet, is not a side meeting whose heads are added.
A party in the same hour only if the plan says the meeting has ended. The terrace, about 500 standing or about 300 at a banquet, is then a second figure, not a bonus. About 5,000 people in open air across up to 5,000 square metres applies only outdoors on the AEG grounds. One producer holds sound and the bar. Several hundred in the same minute use the footpath, not the car park. Every figure is a guide, not a blanket clearance. We confirm when the question arrives from the back and the minutes are real.
Checklist
What the first walk-through in Gesundbrunnen checks
A question from the back
A normal question from the last row has to arrive at the front. Otherwise it is not a meeting.
Microphones in the room
Not only on the stage. The test runs in the empty main hall, from the back toward the front.
A party only after
The same hour stays with the plenary. A reception needs its own line in the plan.
Before you enquire
Questions we hear first.
Short answers for a first shortlist. The final layout still depends on guest count, staging and the run of the day.
01Do we take 400 or 600?+
Seated, about 400. Standing, about 600. Not both, and not as a sum. About 600 is the standing reception, not a row of chairs.
02Is the stage microphone enough?+
No. Microphones stand in the room and are tested from the back in the empty main hall.
03May the party start in the same hour?+
Only if the plan says the meeting has ended. Otherwise the bar stays shut.
04Is there a published row count?+
No. A row or a parliament layout in the main hall is on request only. We do not publish a fixed count for it.
05Do you confirm a date if the back cannot hear?+
No. The walk-through tests exactly that. If the question does not arrive, we propose another figure or change the build.
Your event at Cantinerie
Date, seats or standing, and minutes for questions are enough for a first answer.
Name the date, whether the house sits or stands, and how many minutes the floor has for questions.
