An awards ceremony venue in Berlin, with the stage in the main hall

Winners and guests use the same door. The address is Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin, building 17, ground floor. The borough is Mitte and the locality is Gesundbrunnen. Wedding is the former borough name and a wayfinding cue, not the district. The invitation names the main hall and the stage, not an evening built around a brand.

S Humboldthain is about a ten-minute walk. From Hauptbahnhof the journey by train and on foot is about 30 minutes. U8 Voltastraße and Gesundbrunnen station are nearby. We do not invent walking minutes for them. The person receiving a prize needs the same station name as everyone else.

Parking on the grounds carries the vans for sound, light and camera. It does not replace the footpath when about 400 people arrive in the same minute. The card does not promise a parking bay as a seat. The winner uses the same footpath as the guests.

Dates for this awards ceremony are checked on the gala dinner page.

The ceremony is seated. The main hall, more than 600 square metres, holds about 400 guests seated, and from those places the stage has to be visible. Aisle and camera come out of that figure. They are not added on top. Standing, the same room holds about 600. That is a standing reception, not a row of chairs and not a store of extra seats.

A row or parliament layout in the main hall is on request only. Even then every place has to see the stage. The terrace, about 400 square metres, holds about 500 standing and about 300 at a banquet. It is not a second auditorium this evening. Philosophia, about 180 square metres, holds about 100 at a banquet and about 200 in a row, not as a second stage.

Open air on the AEG grounds goes to about 5,000 people across up to 5,000 square metres, outdoors only. That figure does not replace set places in front of the stage. Every figure is a guide, not a blanket clearance, and they are not added together.

Rehearsal first, then the doors, then the walk. The order of the prizes is written down, and so is the music cue, and the name of the person who hands the prize over. The return path goes past the camera, not through it. Practise that only once the guests are seated and you are practising on the wrong night.

The walk starts at a named table: stand up, aisle, a few steps to the stage, handover, back along the side. That width is part of the about 400 places, not an extra. An aisle that exists only on the drawing sends the winner into the chairs.

If there is food, service waits until the path is clear. A plate crossing the aisle while someone walks to the stage is a fault in the order. The kitchen receives the list of moments when it holds. Without that list it cooks against the prizes.

Pretty light outside is not a reason to put the ceremony on the terrace. Stage, camera and the view from every table live in the main hall. The terrace is not a second auditorium and not a store of chairs. Rain does not matter if outdoors was never promised.

A move outside would void the aisle, the camera and the rehearsal. About 500 standing on the terrace is another figure and is not laid onto the about 400 seated places. Open air for about 5,000 is further away still and applies only outdoors.

Catering, the bar, sound, light and the camera stay with Cantinerie. A second crew crossing the aisle with a build for a brand is not a plan. This text carries no brand names. A logo beside the lens is not a guest count and not an extra chair.

The host microphone and the microphone at the stage are tested before the door opens. The winner should hear the first sentence without turning aside. Radios stay behind the stage, not in the aisle people walk. The test belongs to the rehearsal.

The kitchen holds during the minutes of the walk. Ground-level delivery brings camera and light in before the chairs are set, or the build eats the width the winner needs. One producer holds rehearsal, sound and service together. There are not two clocks.

About 600 standing is not two hundred more chairs. Anyone who wants 600 people seated has left this figure. The seated ceremony stays at about 400, and stage, aisle and camera are already inside it. We do not publish a fixed seating count for the main hall.

Terrace, Philosophia and open air are not laid onto the 400. About 5,000 people applies only outdoors, across up to 5,000 square metres. Logos on the site are references. They are not winners and they are not occupied tables. A logo does not fill an aisle.

Building 17 is on the ground floor. The entrance is step-free and the venue is fully accessible. The aisle to the stage has to stay wide enough for the winner and for a wheelchair at the same time. That width comes off the about 400 places. It is not filled with chairs again after the rehearsal.

S Humboldthain is about a ten-minute walk. U8 Voltastraße and Gesundbrunnen station are close. We do not name minutes for them. Guests check railway lifts themselves. We do not promise a lift. When the doors open, many people arrive together. The footpath is the plan, and parking is for the build.

We walk a winner's path from a named table. Stand up, into the aisle, to the stage, take the prize, back past the camera. If the walk outlasts the music, the table is too far. The rehearsal happens before the doors open, with the person who hands the prize over, not as a chat in an office.

Then we sit at the worst table and look at the stage. If the camera is in the view, the camera moves or the table drops out of the about 400. A riser that hides a line of heads costs those places. About 600 standing would be the room without these tables, and it is not an offer to seat still more people.

The kitchen stands with us for this round and hears the minutes when it holds. A service pass through the winner's path counts as a fault, not as keenness. Sound tests both microphones in the empty hall. A second crew with a brand build in the aisle is taken out of the plan that afternoon. We do not write brand names down.

At the end the figures stay apart. Seated, about 400 in front of the stage, aisle and camera included. Standing, about 600 once the tables are gone, and that is not a larger evening with more chairs. The terrace, about 500, stays outside and is not added. Open air about 5,000 applies only on the AEG grounds, outdoors. The date, the place count and the length of the rehearsal are enough for a first answer.