Orpheum, Event hall in a former cinema in Nuremberg, Germany

The Orpheum is a former cinema and current event hall at Johannisstraße 32a in Nuremberg's St. Johannis district, on the nearly pointed corner plot facing Burgschmietstraße. The 1949 head building by architect Fritz Loesch, who lived opposite at Burgschmietstraße 50, is a idiosyncratic example of German architecture between traditionalism and early postwar modernism. It replaced a destroyed apartment and commercial building and originally had 600 seats and air conditioning.

The Orpheum-Lichtspiele were run from 1910 by owner Frida Stehr in the ground floor of a tenement on Johannisstraße 32a. Leonhard Scharf bought the cinema in 1912; it had 190 seats by 1918 and 186 in 1940. The building was destroyed in a 1943 air raid, and Scharf had a new 600-seat cinema with air conditioning built on the site, completed and reopened in 1949 to designs by architect Fritz Loesch.

Locals nicknamed the cinema "Orpherla". After the family sold it in 1964, the hall served as a supermarket, a mattress shop and a furniture store before films returned: in 2010 the association Mobiles Kino Nürnberg screened movies there again, and since 2014 a private organiser has rented the hall for events.

The building sits near public transportation stops and is easy to reach. Several parking options are available in the surrounding area for those arriving by car.

The building's architect, Fritz Loesch, lived directly opposite at Burgschmietstraße 50, so he could watch his own 1949 cinema go up across the street. Locals nicknamed the house "Orpherla". After the family sold it, the former 600-seat auditorium served as a supermarket, a mattress shop and a furniture store.