Ufa-Pavillon am Nollendorfplatz

The Ufa-Pavillon am Nollendorfplatz was a cinema located at 4 Nollendorfplatz, Schöneberg, Berlin. The chief architect was Oskar Kaufmann. Built in 1912–13 and decorated by leading artistic practitioners of the day, it was the German capital's first purpose-built, free-standing cinema Described as "historically, [...] the most important cinema in Berlin", it incorporated a number of technical innovations such as an opening roof and a daylight projection screen, and opened as the Nollendorf-Theater in March 1913.

The cinema was built by a group of US investors allied with the Italian film company Cines (Società Italiana Cines) which included the American millionaire Joe Goldsoll (a high-class con-man and swindler); A. H. Woods, a Hungarian theatrical producer based in New York to whom Goldsoll was related by marriage; and Edward B. Kinsila, later a film studio architect. The Nollendorf-Theater was rumoured to have been "paid for by the Pope's money." One of the directors of the parent company of Cines in Rome, was Ernesto Pacelli, President of the Banco di Roma, who was in the confidence of Pope Leo XIII and the cousin of Pope Pius XII.

Goldsoll and Woods acquired the German rights to Cines films, and formed Cines-Theater AG, a Berlin-based, partly-owned subsidiary of Cines in Rome. They also controlled a number of other important film venues in Berlin and elsewhere, including what became the Ufa-Palast am Zoo.

The cinema was renamed the Cines Nollendorf-Theater in 1914, but the Berlin subsidiary of Cines (Cines AG) collapsed in late 1915 after the Banco di Roma, one of its main investors, fell into financial difficulties. The building was acquired by the Union-Theater Lichtspiele (U.-T.) chain of cinemas, part of Paul Davidson's PAGU company. Although PAGU was consolidated in late 1917 into the Universum-Film AG (Ufa), the cinema continued to be known as the Union-Theater Nollendorfplatz until 1923. It was renamed as Ufa-Theater Nollendorfplatz in 1924 and finally as the Ufa-Pavillon in 1927. It was badly damaged during World War II in an RAF bombing raid in late 1943, and was not rebuilt.