Eva Lichtspiele

Wilmersdorf's oldest cinema opened in 1913 as Roland Lichtspiele and survived the war almost unscathed. What remains is a single auditorium with 250 seats, a colorful facade from the fifties, and the neon sign above it. For a marriage proposal, a cinema has a tangible advantage: you know exactly when it will get dark beforehand.

Eva Lichtspiele: Marriage Proposal in Row Eight

There are cinemas in Berlin with more auditoriums, with better seats, and with more expensive projectors. But there is hardly one that looks as if it has been waiting for you. The Eva Lichtspiele in Wilmersdorf opened in 1913 as Roland Lichtspiele, survived the war almost unscathed, and has never stopped showing films since. What remains is a single auditorium with 250 seats, the colorful facade from the fifties, and the neon sign above it, which lights up in the evening just as it did sixty years ago.

No multiplex, no twenty minutes of commercials, no popcorn rustling from four directions. Instead, an art-house cinema where the lights slowly dim and the film simply begins. Seats can be reserved in advance for the respective screening, which is worthwhile if it’s meant to be a specific seat – and for a marriage proposal, it usually is.

Why Timing is Easier at the Cinema

A cinema auditorium takes away the hardest decision: you know exactly beforehand when it will get dark and when it will get light again. The credits are the moment when everyone else stands up and you remain seated. If you want the setting to be even more fitting, choose the series with old German black-and-white films that the cinema regularly shows – a time when kissing on screen was different from today. And if you want to extend the moment, slip in a voucher from the cinema beforehand, available from 10 Euros.