A press conference venue in Berlin, with sightlines in the main hall

Crews with cases and journalists use one address: Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin, building 17, 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 the former borough name and a wayfinding cue, not the borough of this address.

U8 Voltastraße and Gesundbrunnen station are nearby. We name no walking time for either. Parking carries the technical van. It does not replace the footpath when several hundred people arrive in the same minute. The invitation needs the station, not only the street.

The walk-through checks the route from the gate to the camera, not a picture of an empty hall. Forget the path for the cases and you have planned a set. The route stays step-free.

Dates for a press call are checked on the product launch page.

For the press, the seated main hall is the figure. More than 600 square metres holds about 400 guests seated. A stage or a camera platform comes off that number. About 600 is the standing reception, not a row of chairs. We do not set a press conference on the standing figure.

Philosophia, about 180 square metres, is the interview room. About 100 at banquet tables, or about 200 in a row, is a guide for that room alone. It is not a second press hall, and it is not added to the main hall.

A row or a parliament layout in the main hall is on request only, from the actual build. Every figure is a guide, not a blanket clearance. Five hundred set places leave this hall.

The running order is short and moves in one direction. A statement from a fixed place, then questions from the room, then interviews in Philosophia. The camera stays on the face. Bring the interview back while the next question runs and you disturb both.

A back wall may carry the occasion name the client brings. An embargo is a clock on paper, not a reveal built for a client this page invents. No firm is named here. The lectern does not hide the mouth, and the light stays put once questions start.

Water and a short coffee sit at the edge, not between camera and face. A meal of courses is another format. Philosophia opens when the hall questions are finished, not during them.

Sight and sound want a roof and still air. The press conference stays in the main hall even in clear weather. Wind on a microphone is a reason to stay inside. The terrace, about 400 square metres and about 500 standing, is not a camera fallback.

About 5,000 people across up to 5,000 square metres applies only to open air on the AEG grounds, and only as its own booking. A press conference does not become an outdoor premiere on the side. Rain or not, the plan is the hall.

Catering, the bar, sound and light stay with Cantinerie. One producer keeps camera paths and the kitchen apart. The microphone is tested in the empty main hall until the last row can follow a sentence. A second sound firm crosses cables and responsibility.

Philosophia needs a door that does not cross the shot, and quiet enough that hall sound stays out of the interview. Delivery is at ground level. The van stops clear of the step-free route. Radios stay behind the line set on the walk-through.

Guests see faces, chairs and a lectern. They do not see a second control desk. Water comes from the same kitchen as the coffee.

The main hall does not hold a press conference above about 400 seated guests. We publish no fixed row count for the main hall. Adding hall, terrace and Philosophia makes a false plan. About 600 standing is not a press layout.

Open air for about 5,000 people is its own format on the AEG grounds and stops at the door. Indoors, the hall figures apply. Book an outdoor premiere as open air, or do not book it here.

No firm is named here. Logos elsewhere are references, not a headcount and not a script. An embargo played as theatre is not this venue. The terrace banquet, about 300, is a separate figure.

Building 17 is on the ground floor. The entrance is step-free and the venue is fully accessible. Cases, a wheelchair and a camera stand share one route. Width to the stage and a clear aisle come off the raw chair count.

S Humboldthain is about a ten-minute walk. U8 Voltastraße and Gesundbrunnen station are nearby, with no invented minutes. Guests check railway lifts themselves. We do not promise a lift that day. Parking is for the build. People use the footpath.

Before the date we walk the press conference in the empty main hall, not in a brochure. We stand in the last row and beside the side camera and check that both see the same face. A lectern that cuts the mouth moves before any chair is set. The aisle stays wide enough that a case does not enter the shot. The microphone is tested toward the back, not only the front. The rehearsal is short and decides whether the sentence lands.

Then we open Philosophia and walk there from the hall without crossing the camera. People waiting do not stand in the shot. The room is about 180 square metres. About 100 banquet places are a table conversation, about 200 in a row a briefing, not a second press hall. Hall sound must not keep running in there. The door opens after the last question. Two rooms stay two figures.

On the same round we check the path for the cases. Building 17 is on the ground floor, step-free and fully accessible. The van stops so a wheelchair and a stand share the floor. Cables stay off that route. Parking carries the van and does not replace the footpath when several hundred people arrive in the same minute. We do not promise railway lifts. Guests check them themselves.

The limit is stated in the hall, not in a leaflet. More than about 400 seated places leave the main hall once a stage or a platform takes room. About 600 is the standing reception, not a row of chairs and not the press layout. About 5,000 people across up to 5,000 square metres applies only to open air on the AEG grounds, with its own booking. A row or a parliament layout in the main hall is on request only. Every figure is a guide, not a blanket clearance. We confirm a date when sight, the interview room and the case path are clear. This hour needs no firm name and no invented embargo.