ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN
Casual elegance in the heart of Berlin
Alone the address is a classic: Nürnberger Straße 50-55. Everybody who was anybody in Berlin in the
twenties and thirties danced here in the best city location between Kurfürstendamm avenue, the zoo
and the KaDeWe department store — initially in the famous “Femina” ballroom with table telephones
and “tube mail” and then later in the “Badewanne”, the most fashionable jazz club in the city. In the
seventies the address eventually stood for the in-discotheque “Dschungel”, where stars such as Frank
Zappa, David Bowie, Carlos Santana, Iggy Pop or Barbra Streisand partied the nights away.
Now the ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN has been located behind the 185 metre long façade since March
2007. The building constructed in the New Objectivity architectural style was lovingly refurbished over
the course of months and today is still also reminiscent of the glitz and glamour of the past. Alone the
travertine-clad natural stone façade, the striking brass frames of the high windows, the rounded oriel
corners and the horizontally drawn lines along the extraordinary façade make the hotel a real eyecatcher. And many features which are reminiscent of the Golden twenties have been retained in the
interior. For instance, the original foyer with the high glass doors framed in brass still exists in parts.
Moreover, cream-white ceramic tiles with soft green lines on the walls are reminiscent of the magic of
old. The main staircase with its solid stone steps and the extravagantly shaped ceramic handrail the
stucco ornaments on the ceiling and the gold-plated lettering on the walls are also striking. Incidentally,
the Berlin architectural firm Reuter & Schoger were responsible for the entire reconstruction of the listed
building. The director of the design hotel belonging to the Streletzki Group is Tina Brack, who together
with more than 100 colleagues takes care of the well-being of the international guests every day.
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Rooms
The design hotel with a total of 285 rooms provides a generous room portfolio for Berlin visitors,
corporate clients and groups. All rooms impress with their light and modern interior. The en suite
bathroom integrated in the living room is the special eye-catcher. Moreover, an air-conditioning system,
direct-dial telephone, minibar and hair dryer as well as high-speed Internet access and television are a
matter of course. The two Tower Suites featuring nearly 50 square metres and a unique view of
Kurfürstendamm and the Gedächtniskirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) are located on the fifth
floor of the hotel. The hotel’s largest suites are the Executive Suites, each with 75 square metres and
separate bathroom. Family Rooms with 30 square metres and loft bed are also available for families.
Gastronomy
At the heart of our hotel is the DUKE Restaurant, which has been awarded 15 Gault & Millau points
(2016), provides space for 65 guests and features an open show kitchen. A refined bar arrangement
connects the restaurant with the DUKE Bar & Lounge as well as the unique ELLINGTON Summer
Garden. The separate Private Dining Room offers space for an additional twelve guests in a private
setting. Florian Glauert, who originally hails from Berlin, is ultimately responsible for the gastronomic
flair of the ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN. Chef de Cuisine and his Sous Chef Michael Schulz presents a
"Cuisine logique" which stands out due to its composition of exciting flavours, new horizons and
traditional French Haute Cuisine. Glauert prioritises the use of high quality regional products which he
combines on the table with keen attention to detail in an exquisitely refined and yet straightforward way.
The hosts of the DUKE restaurant are Jessica Kleinert and Andrea Sinner, who charmingly combines
the relaxed charm of the restaurant with the elegantly presented cuisine. The DUKE restaurant stands
for Casual Fine Dining at the highest of levels – but without a starchy 'shirt and tie only' vibe.
Seasonal specialities and creative dishes are served over the middle of the day at the DUKE lunch and
in the evenings which appeal to business guests, local residents and tourists from all over the world. For
those who like to enjoy a special brunch buffet at the weekend, every Sunday from 12.00 noon until
3.00 pm, the DUKE restaurant offers its Jazz Brunch, accompanied by live music.
Further information on the restaurant is available at www.duke-restaurant.com.
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Wine cellar
In the hotel's historic cellar, which is situated behind the steel doors of the former vaults of the regional
financial directorate, is the hotel's 35 square metre sized wine cellar. The cellar contains around 300
different wines from France, Italy, Spain, Germany and Austria. These include specialities such as the
Sassicaia series from 1976 – 2008 including the "Sassi 85" and a Barbaresco Angelo Gaja dating from
1969. The wine cellar also invites guests to trace the history of the hotel with superb food and the
perfect wine accompaniment – it is a special location with a unique atmosphere.
The ELLINGTON Summer Garden
With its comfy corner couches, cushions, parasols and luscious plant life, the peaceful ELLINGTON
Summer Garden invites guests to rest and relax. And this oasis of calm in the city is also a place that
the rain can't ruin: from January 2016 onwards, a flexible roof will provide guests with the necessary
shelter. In addition to light summer snacks from the DUKE Restaurant, cocktails, coffee and cake are
available to order from 11.30 am onwards. During the summer months the ELLINGTON Summer
Garden is also the perfect setting for jazz concerts and events.
Conference and Event Area
Thanks to the generous room portfolio, the central location and the high-quality gastronomy, the
ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN is particularly popular for the implementation of meetings, events, product
presentations, conferences and galas. The event area with ten different rooms provides space for up to
800 people for this purpose. The showpiece is the hall Femina, which is a modern event room featuring
634 square metres and space for up to 800 people. Connected to this hall is a spacious foyer flooded
with light in which coffee breaks, receptions or stand-up lunches can be held. Smaller breakout rooms
are also available in the immediate vicinity.
Guests who would like to hold their event in a very special ambience can also book the Private Dining
Room, Gallery or also the historic wine vault. In the summer, the beautiful Summer Garden invites
guests to enjoy a relaxed get-together, barbecues, family celebrations or also weddings.
The ELLINGTON HOTEL project on Nürnberger Straße was made possible through the successful
cooperation of the Streletzki Group with IDEAL Lebensversicherung a.G. “Perfect cooperation! We
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could not wish for anything better”, summed up the Streletzkis – Ekkehard Streletzki and his son Julian
– in unison. Rainer M. Jacobus, Chairman of the Executive Board of IDEAL Lebensversicherung a.G.,
emphasises the importance of hotel construction for the revival of Nürnberger Straße: “With the opening
of the ELLINGTON HOTEL we not only enhanced the street’s attractiveness, but also the entire area
around Tauentzienstraße. We assume that we have made a successful investment with the majority
stake in the real estate company.”
The ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN is located on Nürnberger Straße 50-55 in 10789 Berlin. More
information is available at www.ellington-hotel.com.
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HISTORY
It was here where Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington performed in the legendary
“Badewanne”, David Bowie, Romy Haag and Lou Reed partied in the no less legendary “Dschungel”,
and old UFA heroes and later television stars such as Günter Pfitzmann and Edith Hancke stood on the
stage of the “Berlin Theatre”. The building on Nürnberger Straße 50-55 – transformed via loving detail
work in 2007 into ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN – is an establishment with tradition.
The building known under the names “Haus Nürnberg”, “Femina or Tauentzien Palast” that emerged
from 1928 to 1931 under the impression of the pioneering buildings by Berlin architect Erich
Mendelsohn was designed by a very successful team of architects at that time, Richard Bielenberg and
Josef Moser. They designed one of the longest, most conspicuous and perhaps also one of the most
beautiful facades in Berlin: elongated ribbon windows across the continuous shop floor expose the four
upper floors. The wall areas are clad with lavish travertine and framed by small ribbons of dark bricks
below and above the strongly profiled windows. The 185 metre long façade is structured through
staircase towers and oriels. The entrances and display windows of the shop front are framed in brass.
This also contributes towards the elegant exterior of this commercial building.
But the domicile of the Ellington Hotel is not only listed because of the largely originally preserved
façade. The entrance rooms, staircases and a few halls inside also preserve the charm of the late
twenties and early thirties: in white and green wall tiles, brass staircase railings, stucco ornaments on
the ceilings and gold-plated lettering on the walls.
The original property developer, Märkische Bau- und Grundstücksverwertung-AG, spared neither efforts
nor expense. In 1932, the “Deutsche Bauhütte” magazine called the Femina Palast a “colossal capital
attraction”. The Femina Palast was introduced to German architects as the “newest entertainment site in
Berlin”. But this merely referred to a part of the building, namely the ground floor with the rearward, twostorey ballroom. Entertainment on the four upper floors of the front building may have been kept within
limits in these economically turbulent times: spaces were rented as offices. The interior arrangement of
the steel skeleton construction was flexibly adaptable to the tenant demand by means of lightweight
stone walls. In 1932, an office space of about 100 square metres on the second floor, “including
heating”, cost 270 Reichsmarks a month; a “small single office with waiting room” was available for a
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monthly rent starting at 56 Reichsmarks. The Reichs Monopoly Administration for Spirits (RMV)
occupied the offices in 1938.
The “Femina” was opened on 1 October 1929. “Berlin’s Ballroom” featured the self-assured subheadlines on the poster which advertised 2,000 seats, “two huge bars and three bands”, “daily tea
dance, 2.50 Marks cover charge” and “dance attractions”.
It was a bold venture that enterprising
hotelier and restaurant proprietor Heinrich Liemann got involved with, yet a whole slew of entertainment
sites all around the Memorial Church competed for the patronage of dance-loving Berliners. His
description of the dance palace was accordingly ostentatious: “Through a marble vestibule and a
second anteroom, one enters a gentlemen’s bar where one can hear mood singers. From the
cloakroom for more than 2,000 people, a lift that transports 16 people at the same time brings guests to
the dance bar on the first floor, where twenty young ladies serve guests and a top rate dance orchestra
performs. Opposite this bar is the main dance hall that rises up to the roof in two tiers. There are table
telephones and tube mail with an exchange centre from which young girls in uniform deliver the notes.
The dancing area can be completely or partially raised by half a metre in order to make shows generally
visible. Elegant dancing couples, grotesque dancers and complete ballets will be shown there in the
afternoons and evenings. First-rate bands have been engaged. The most modern lighting immerses the
hall in dazzling light. Beverages and meals will be served at prices that accommodate any purse!”
The press criticised that the interior was very reminiscent of the “Palais am Zoo”, but points could be
scored with the tube mail – which only one other Berlin ballroom had – and with the hydraulically
opening roof. Ten years later, in May 1939, the programme copywriter made it very poetic: “The glass
roof opens. A blue sky shines above the tables for the tea dance. The stars above the roofs of Berlin
shine in at night. The pleasant freshness of the evening floods the dance floor. The pleasantness of
sitting, chatting and dancing in the open air is combined here in such a beautiful, practical manner with
the festive, luxurious setting of the Femina.” The press attested to “highest top class” of the bands. After
all, “Tango King” Juan Llossas played there (“Whoever cannot forget their problems should listen to
Juan Llossas”).
Despite everything, the Femina Palast did not run smoothly. The operating company changed several
times. The Grand Café, which was located on the ground floor right underneath the ballroom, was
converted into Willi Schaeffer’s “Cabaret für Alle” in 1931. A grill restaurant and a beer cellar came into
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being a bit later in the basement. Yet none of this helped. The Nationalzeitung wrote the following on 13
April 1933: “As the ‘lady dinner partners’ in mink and Doberman rushed in front of the portals of the
Femina yesterday evening, they found the windows of the great dance hall were dark. No jazz
syncopation rang out through the night. The musicians stood melancholically in the doorway with their
violin cases. Femina will no longer be opening its doors. The creditors had all the chairs picked up by
the bailiff at noon.”
Life only returned to the hangout two and a half years later: the Texas Bar had become a “cosy” drinking
parlour, whereas the “Cabaret für Alle” had become the hearty Bavarian-style “Siechenbräu”. The new
operators were not embarrassed to concede to the spirit of the times. “Alternating bands should provide
concerts here for the Wehrmacht, SA and SS, National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) and pilots”. Yet
the success was limited. Instead of listening to nationalistic brass band music, the Femina guests
wanted to dance the Swing. The building on Nürnberger Straße with the large ballroom and its
numerous side bars and restaurants evolved in Berlin’s most popular Swing palace.
Teddy Stauffer, Heinz Wehner and other famous “bandmasters” performed here with their dance
orchestras. The ballroom was closed during the war, but people continued to dance in the remaining
localities — up to the bitter end.
While the front building survived the war fairly intact, the rearward ballroom was heavily damaged in the
war. Only the outer walls remained standing. The “Ulenspiegel” cabaret, in which Werner Finck
celebrated his return to Berlin and Gustaf Gründgens his return to cabaret, opened on the ground floor
in June 1946. The hall was converted into a cinema in 1948. In 1951 it became the venue of the
privately financed “Berlin Theatre”, whose list of performers reads like a who’s who of German
boulevard theatre. Many of the old UFA stars, from Lil Dagover to Olga Tschechowa and Grethe Weise
as well as younger stars such as Günter Pfitzmann and Edith Hancke were to be seen here, and
Wolfgang Spier – still active in Ku’damm theatres – learned how to enact comedies on this stage. The
young Klaus Kinski caused a sensation here in 1959 as he recited Villon, Rimbaud, Oscar Wilde and
Gerhart Hauptmann on ten days in succession.
The former “Pusztastube” in the basement became the “Badewanne” in 1949. Initiated by a group of
painters as a rustic artists’ club, the basement club soon evolved into Berlin’s most important jazz site.
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But the club was always also available for other razzmatazz such as rock & roll prize dances or Marlon
Brando lookalike contests. In addition to beer, Coca Cola was the most popular drink, and numerous
American GIs mingled with the audience to hear celebrities such as Lionel Hampton, Count Basie or
Dizzy Gillespie live. People veered to pop songs and disco in the seventies. The venue was reopened
as the “Sugar Shack” discotheque in 1978. But the novelty wore off, and the successor venue “Garage”
plodded along poorly. In contrast, things were really happening one door down. The stylish, chic
“Dschungel” became the scene discotheque par excellence, a Berlin counterpart to New York’s “Studio
54” (at Nürnberger Straße 53!), with the advent of the New Wave era at the end of the seventies.
Whoever was inside belonged there and with a bit of luck was able to experience Rio Reiser as DJ or
the intermittent Berliner Nick Cave at the next table.
Frank Zappa, Mick Jagger or David Bowie had wild parties after their concerts, Prince and Boy George
spent their nights in Berlin here. However, the in-disco became marginalised with the fall of the Berlin
Wall and techno music. It had to close in 1993. And even its successor, the noble restaurant
“Dschungel”, was never really successful.
At the end of the 90s, the venue finally fell into a deep sleep and was only rarely awakened by revival
parties. The fun in the old ballroom had already faded in 1973.
The former cabaret, cinema and theatre hall became the staff canteen for the Berlin Financial
Administration, which had procured the office floors in 1964. The Berlin Administrative Academy also
provided instruction at Haus Nürnberg. Incidentally, the hall where the finance senators gave their press
conferences is preserved. It is located on the upper floor of a second rearward part of the building.
In the meantime, the mustiness from decades of use by authorities and years of vacancy has been
thoroughly cast out of the building on Nürnberger Straße. But the charm has been retained. Tradition
obligates and inspires. A modern event room is now located in the walls of the old Femina Hall, and
nowadays the ELLINGTON HOTEL guests eat their breakfast where the cabaret and theatre stars of
the post-war era stood on the stage. Unfortunately, only the paternoster lift, with which the finance
senators rode up to their offices daily, no longer exists. The building authorities found it too dangerous
for a hotel enterprise.
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FIGURES, DATA, FACTS
Nürnberger Straße 50-55
10789 Berlin
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Hotel opening:
March 2007
Architect:
Johannes Reuter
Interior designers:
Wencke Katharina Schoger, Luigi Lanzi
Property developers:
IDEAL Lebensversicherung a.G. und Ekkehard Streletzki
Management:
Tina Brack und Thomas Brückner
Director:
Tina Brack
Employees:
about 100 permanent employees, additional external companies
Total floor space:
19,710 m²
Hotel floor space:
10,273 m²
Investment volumne:
40 million euros
Construction time:
1 year (Start of construction: February 2006)
Façade length:
185 metres
Rooms:
285 rooms and suites
Shops (mall):
6
Gastronomy:
2 restaurants, 1 bar
Event locations:
10
Parking spaces:
50
Features:
original maintained strong room, summer garden
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Room prices (As of January 2016)
Category
Single room
Double room
Standard (16 - 20 m²)
from EUR 118.00
from EUR 128.00
Superior (20 – 25 m²)
from EUR 143.00
from EUR 153.00
Deluxe (25 – 30 m²)
from EUR 148.00
from EUR 158.00
Suites (from 30 m²)
from EUR 188.00
from EUR 198.00
Tower Suites (40 m²)
from EUR 248.00
from EUR 259.00
Executive Suites (75 m²)
from EUR 298.00
from EUR 309.00
handicapped accessible room
from 118,00 €
Family room
from 158,00 €
Breakfast for 20,00 € per person extra.
Room amenities
Bright rooms with double-glazed windows
Rooms are to black out
Innerspring mattress (22 cm high)
Box-spring bed
costumized adjustable air conditioning
Minibar and TV
Highspeed Internet access and free WLAN (low bandwidth)
Conference Rooms
1.490 m² total event area for up to 800 person
ten event rooms (22 from 634 m²) with daylight
state-of-the-art technology
Air conditioning
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ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN - overview
Designhotel in top city location
285 rooms and suites
Restaurant DUKE
DUKE Bar & Lounge
Breakfast and buffet restaurant
ELLINGTON Smokers Lounge & Bar
ELLINGTON summer garden
10 event rooms with daylight
Walk-in wine cellar
Modern fitness area
Concierge Service
Mall with 6 exclusive shops
50 own parking spaces
Free bus parking areas in the immediate vicinity
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TINA BRACK – Managing Director
She has been her since “zero hour” and has therefore already been leading the approximately 100person team of ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN since the pre-opening phase in February 2006. The
person referred to is Hotel Director Tina Brack. She knows every corner of the traditional establishment
on Nürnberger Straße and has fallen for the 285-room design hotel with heart and soul. After all, the
combination of historic architectural fabric, contemporary design and an extraordinary concept for
events, catering and retail trade is unique in Berlin.
And Tina Brack should know. As a native of Berlin she knows the local market like the back of her hand.
Before her function at ELLINGTON HOTEL she was employed for a total of eleven years at ESTREL
Berlin, initially as Assistant Manager Convention Sales, later as Manager and ultimately as Director in
the same department. She was responsible for the planning, sales and implementation of events for up
to 5,000 people. This was a job which had a lasting impact and fully exploited her talent for organisation,
communication and service. Tina Brack proved that this talent accompanied her at an early stage in her
career from 1992 to 1997 in her position as Assistant to the General Manager at Restaurant Reinhard’s.
She had previously completed her studies and earned a State Certificate in Hospitality Management
Specialist at the Berlin Hotel Management School. Incidentally, she started in the industry during
training as a restaurant specialist at Restaurant Moskau, which she successfully completed after her
general qualification for university entrance.
As Director at ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN she is responsible for the overall management of the hotel
belonging to the Streletzki Group. Tina Brack is married and the mother of a son.
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FLORIAN GLAUERT – Chef de Cuisine
Florian Glauert is the Chef de Cuisine at the ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN. Glauert, who originally hails
from Berlin, is responsible for the DUKE Restaurant, which features 15 Gault&Millau points (2016), in
addition to the ELLINGTON Summer Garden, the breakfast and buffet restaurant and the complete
banqueting service at the design hotel. In addition to the creation of new dishes and gastronomic
concepts, the tasks also include the organization of the kitchen and its 20 employees with the
associated key areas of purchasing, staff management and the coordination of events. Glauert is
supported by Sous Chef Michael Schulz, who gained his initial professional experience at VAU
restaurant, Rutz wine bar and also with Frank Rosin in the TV series "Hell's kitchen".
The kitchen philosophy
Florian Glauert presents a “cuisine logique”. This stands out due to its composition of exciting flavors’,
new horizons and traditional French Haute Cuisine. Glauert prefers the use of high quality regional
products which he combines on the table with keen attention to detail in an exquisitely refined and yet
straightforward way. This makes his seasonal dishes innovative and relaxed – casual fine dining at the
highest of levels, but without a starchy 'shirt and tie only' vibe.
Background
After training as a chef at Hotel Esplanade in Berlin, Glauert worked for two years as a commis and
demi-chef de partie under the direction of Thomas Kammeier at restaurant “Zum Hugenotten”. The
talented young chef moved to the USA in 1999. He spent one year in the gourmet restaurants of the
Knowles family in New Jersey before enrolling at the Culinary Institute of America in 2000 and
immersing himself in the world of food styling. His career path led him back to the capital city in 2001,
and four years at restaurant “Vivaldi” followed, initially as demi-chef de partie and chef de partie under
the leadership of Paul Urchs and subsequently as sous chef under the leadership of today’s two-star
chef Christian Lohse. In addition to this period, a guest appearance at the three-star restaurant “El Raco
de can Fabes” in Barcelona is among the most formative experiences in his career. In 2004, Florian
Glauert assumed the position of executive chef for the first time and opened the Felix ClubRestaurant
on the south side of Hotel Adlon.
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Three years later, he moved to Berlin's newest culinary hotspot, the Grill Royal, where he was also
active as executive chef. With all this experience under his belt, in 2007 Glauert decided to branch out
on his own and threw himself into working as a consultant for culinary concepts. For example, he
advised Kochhaus and collaborated on its conceptional planning. As kitchen director and project
developer for the Einstein Stammhaus in Berlin, from 2008, he also developed a recipe book.
Furthermore, he showcased his restaurant expertise at various high-ranking cooking events such as
Gutsküche in Hamburg, at the Landhaus Stricker on Sylt island, in the Office of the Federal President
and at Fischers Fritz restaurant in Berlin. In 2011, he made the transition to executive chef for banquet
and catering at Hotel Palace Berlin. Since the beginning of 2012, Glauert has been active as Executive
Chef for ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN.
Awards (A-Z):
Feinschmecker 2015 – 2 points
Gault&Millau 2017 – 15 points
Gault&Millau 2016 – 15 points
Gault & Millau 2015 – 16 points
Gault&Millau 2014 – 15 points
Große Guide 2015 – 2 toques
Gusto 2017 – 6 pans
Gusto 2016 – 5 pans↑
Gusto 2015 – 5 pans
Schlemmeratlas 2015 – 3 cooking spoons
Varta-Führer 2015 – 2 diamonds
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EKKEHARD STRELETZKI
He have already realised many projects, but Ekkehard have fulfilled a common dream with the Ellington
Hotel Berlin. After the success of ESTREL Berlin, Germany’s largest convention, entertainment & hotel
complex, owner Ekkehard Streletzki always wanted to land another coup in the Berlin hotel scene.
“With the ELLINGTON HOTEL we have created a modern hotel in an absolute top location – and in a
market segment that is completely underrepresented in this quality in Berlin”, says Ekkehard Streletzki.
He purchased the large complex on Nürnberger Straße in 1997. Today Streletzki senior is no longer sad
that the original plans to build a five-star hotel there fell through. “Berlin does not need another five-star
establishment. On the other hand, we have accurately met the spirit of the times with the ELLINGTON
concept.” That is to say: modern design, lifestyle shops as well as a restaurant with integrated bar. And
this is at a fair price, which is not necessarily expected in the vicinity of Kurfürstendamm.
Son Julian Streletzki, who was involved in the conversion into a hotel since the purchase of the
complex, also invested considerable blood, sweat and tears in this project. “This hotel came into being
with so much love. We worked on many small details in order to develop a very special style”, he says
enthusiastically. And the ELLINGTON HOTEL does not merely involve a small 30-room boutique hotel,
but a 285-room establishment with a large event area. The successful blend of old architecture in the
style of New Objectivity and contemporary design “intrinsically make the hotel an attraction”.
With this concept the Streletzkis have also restored the historic building’s original purpose. “This
building was always a place to go out, for celebrating and for special events”, says Julian Streletzki, who
wanted to make Nürnberger Straße a top address again.
More than once Ekkehard Streletzki stays true his slogan, – “One always has to be a bit more creative
than others and also repeatedly dare something innovative” – and followed his visions. The origin was in
the construction industry, in which the entrepreneur born in 1940 entered. Exciting projects such as the
construction of energy-saving combined heat and power plants, the conversion of an environmentally
friendly brick factory in Moscow, the realisation of a tramway test track in Mittenwalde or a biological
power plant in Zittau followed. Yet the surely most spectacular vision made Streletzki switch to the hotel
business, where he achieved an exceptional success with the ESTREL Berlin. After all, since 2000
ESTREL has been the hotel with the highest turnover in Germany. Streletzki was distinguished as
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“Hotelier of the Year” for this success and for the concept. In addition, he was awarded the Cross of the
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2005 for his professional life’s work, his social
commitment and his work.
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RAINER M. JACOBUS
As Chairman of the Executive Board of IDEAL Lebensversicherung a.G., Rainer M. Jacobus is
accustomed to thinking in larger contexts and making strategic decisions for the future. This also always
includes a distinct vision as to how projects to be developed will actually look one day. This knack also
helped him with the decision for a majority stake in the real estate company involved with the property
on Nürnberger Straße. “I am very pleased that such a wonderful hotel has now emerged from the
building of the former Senate Financial Administration”, says Jacobus enthusiastically with regard to the
ELLINGTON HOTEL. And the IDEAL Chairman praises the partner: “The cooperation with the Streletzki
Group is truly ideal. With the operator of the largest and highest-turnover hotel in Germany we could not
have found a better partner.”
In the main business, IDEAL provides life, accident and indemnity insurances for individuals age 50 and
over. The forerunner to IDEAL was established as early as 1913 in Berlin. Since the accession of
Jacobus as Chairman in 2001, only insurances for older people will be sold, “the only truly growing
target group which there still is in the insurance market”. How successful this strategy is can be easily
shown in the rapid growth of premium income and new business figures of the past five years. Before
joining IDEAL Rainer M. Jacobus gained numerous experiences in the insurance industry. For instance,
he was chairman of the insurance broker network “CHARTA Börse für Versicherungen AG” in
Düsseldorf and of COR AG in Stuttgart, a software and consulting firm that specialises in life
insurances.
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JAZZ RADIO 106.8
Jazz feels at home in the ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN! The "Nuremberg House“, as the building was
once known, was very popular with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.
National and international artists continue to play jazz here to this day. In the relaxed setting of the
DUKE Lounge with its superb acoustics, and when the weather is good, the ELLINGTON Summer
Garden, regular jazz concerts attract guests from Berlin and the world over, all-year-around.
The ELLINGTON HOTEL is the host of Germany's only FM broadcaster of jazz music: Jazz Radio
106.8. From its glazed studio in the DUKE Lounge, Jazz radio broadcasts a wide variety of jazz music
live to a radio audience of 316,000 every day, with influences from Latin, soul, smooth, swing and
electronic. The prize-awarded broadcaster also has a growing number of international online listeners
(web radio) at www.jazzradio.net.
Every Sunday between 12.00 noon and 3.00 pm, together with the ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN
JazzRadio 106.8 invites guests to the traditional jazz brunch. Brunch guests are also spoilt with
seasonal and regional specialities at the buffet and live jazz music.
Further information on dates and events is available at www.ellington-hotel.com.
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