Schiller Theater

The Schiller Theater is a Berlin theater building and has long been a Playhouse. It is located in the Charlottenburg district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district near the Ernst- Reuter -Platz in the Bismarck Road 110 (formerly No. 117-120 ). During the 1920s and 1930s, it served the Prussian State Theater in Berlin, from 1951 to 1993 the State Drama Theatres in Berlin. In 1993, the state Schauspielbühnen were closed by decision of the Berlin Senate because of the poor financial situation of the city after a long struggle to preserve.

The building is now temporarily rented as a venue and venue; since the autumn of 2010, it serves the Staatsoper Unter den Linden as a replacement venue.

History

The Schiller Theater was built in 1905-1906 to designs by the Munich theater architect Max Littmann for the Schiller- Theater AG and the city of Charlottenburg. The sculptural decoration was designed by the sculptors Düll and Pezold, the painting of the auditorium and the painted curtain comes from Julius Moessel. The complex consisted of three wings: a theater building, a restaurant and a multi-purpose hall building. The 1194 seat theater was theater opened on 1 January 1907, Friedrich Schiller's The Robbers and henceforth operated by the Schiller Theater AG with its own theater company. Was the founding director of the Slavic Professor Raphael Lowenfeld. The Schiller Theater AG, founded in 1894 had been the Wallner Theatre, and as Schiller Theatre of Northern used as the Schiller Theatre East Woltersdorff Theatre.

From June 1921 to July 1, 1932, the house was the second venue of the Prussian State Theatre in Berlin, which had its main venue at the Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt. In May 1933, it was assumed as a Prussian Youth Theatre in association of the Prussian State Theatre in the Prime Minister Hermann Göring, however, already been released on December 2, 1933, a ceremony and a performance of Schiller's Wilhelm Tell in the possession of the city of Berlin.

From 1937 to 1938, the house of Paul Baumgarten was extensively remodeled for the city of Berlin. Baumgarten simplified the facade and the auditorium considerably and so changed the face of theater with reference to the New Objectivity of the 1920s, but also in line with the prevailing monumental architecture taste of National Socialism. It was built in a " Regierungsloge ". On conversion, the sculptor Paul Scheurich and Karl cam and the painter Albert Birkle were involved. From the reopening of Schiller's Kabale und Liebe, 1938, the house was operated as Schiller Theatre of the capital Berlin. Director was under the pseudonym Heinrich Schmitz, the actor Heinrich George. The theater was destroyed in an air raid on 23 November 1943.

Between 1950 and 1951 the theater, designed by Heinz peoples and Rolf Grosse was built new for the city of Berlin. Some parts of the ruins of the old theater were re-used for new construction. The Glass wall of the main foyer (25 m × 5.20 m ) was created by the painter Ludwig Peter Kowalski, the relief wall of Entrées (hard stucco, length 28 m ) comes from the sculptor Bernhard Heiliger. The opening on September 6, 1951 Schiller's Wilhelm Tell was shown. The Schiller Theater was the main venue of the State Drama Theatres in Berlin, which used them as Small house with 1067 seats as Large house next to the Castle Park Theatre in Steglitz. Other venues were the Schiller Theater Werkstatt in the building of the Schiller Theater (now the secondary stage of the GRIPS Theatre ) and the Ballhaus Rixdorf.

Well-known director of the State Theatre stages were Heinrich George, Boleslaw Barlog Hans Lietzau, Boy Gobert and Heribert Sasse.

Major directors such as Gustaf, Jürgen Fehling, Samuel Beckett, Fritz Kortner, Boleslaw Barlog Hans Lietzau, Karl Paryla, George Tabori, Hans New Rock, Hans Hollmann and Peter Zadek have successfully worked in this house.

In 1993, the Schiller Theater was closed by decision of the Senate of Berlin due to the financial distress of Berlin and all firmly committed staff and artists ( including Bernhard Minetti, Erich Schellow and Sabine Sinjen ) dismissed. The last performance of the state theaters, there was the premiere of the piece White Everything and thickness Stupid of Coline Serreau with Katharina Thalbach.

The closure of the largest German -speaking stages sparked protest and resentment and brought the then cultural Senator Ulrich Roloff - Momin reputation " Schiller killer" one. After that, it was used as a musical and Gastspieltheater. From January to October 2000 used the Maxim Gorki Theater, the stage of the Schiller Theater.

Replacement venue for the State Opera

After the end of gaming operations at the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden 31 May 2010 the ensemble and the Staatskapelle for the duration of the renovation work are housed at the Schiller Theater. Which began on 5 June 2010 remodeling quantify expected to 239 million euros. For five years, the State Opera House will stay in the Schiller Theater. The first opera premiere in the transitional venue took place on October 3, 2010.

Ensemble

Selection of actors who appeared in leading roles at the Schiller Theater:

  • Rolf Henniger
  • Lucie Politely
  • Thomas Holtzmann
  • Klaus chamber
  • Sebastian Koch
  • Hans Peter Korff
  • Hermione grains
  • Werner Krauss
  • Regina Lemnitz
  • Christiane light man
  • Wolfgang Liebeneiner
  • Heinz Lieven
  • Peter Lohmeyer
  • Joseph Lorenz
  • Erika My Guest
  • Bernhard Minetti
  • Sabine Orléans

Significant premieres

  • Max Frisch: Don Juan or The love of geometry (May 5, 1953 simultaneously at the Schauspielhaus Zurich )
  • Martin Walser: Oak and Angora (23 September 1962)
  • Günter Grass: The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (15 January 1966)
  • Günter Grass: Davor (14 February 1969)
  • Conor Cruise O'Brien: Murderous Angels (10 January 1971)
  • Thomas Bernhard: Simply complicated (28 February 1986)
  • Pavel Kohout: Patt (29 August 1987)
  • Thomas Bernhard: Elizabeth II (5 November 1989)
  • Volker Braun: Bohemia on the Sea ( March 11, 1992 )
William Tell (play) New Objectivity (architecture) Nazi architecture Intrigue and Love Grips-Theater Intendant Hans Neuenfels Maxim Gorki Theatre Staatskapelle Berlin Claus Clausen (actor) Arbeiter-Zeitung (Vienna) Neues Deutschland Admiralspalast Deutsches Theater Friedrichstadt-Palast Lessing Theater
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