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Deutsches Theater (Berlin)

Theater in Germany

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Theater in Germany

Field	Value
name	Deutsches Theater
image	Berlin Kammerspiele Deutsches Theater.jpg
image_size	250
caption	Theaters in Schumannstraße: Kammerspiele (left) and Deutsches Theater (right)
former_names	Friedrich-Wilhelm-Städtisches Theater
address	Schumannstraße 13A
city	Berlin
country	Germany
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mapframe-marker	theatre
elevation
type	Theater
built	1850
opened	1883
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The Deutsches Theater is a theater in Berlin, Germany. It was built in 1850 as Friedrich-Wilhelm-Städtisches Theater, after Frederick William IV of Prussia. Located on Schumann Street (Schumannstraße), the Deutsches Theater consists of two adjoining stages that share a common, classical facade. The main stage was built in 1850, originally for operettas.

Adolf L'Arronge founded the Deutsches Theater in 1883 with the ambition of providing Berliners with a high-quality ensemble-based repertory company on the model of the German court theater, the Meiningen Ensemble, which had been developed by Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and his colleagues to become "the most widely admired and imitated company in Europe", thanks to its historically accurate sets and costumes, vividly-realized crowd scenes, and meticulous directorial control.

Otto Brahm, the leading exponent of theatrical Naturalism in Germany, took over the direction of the theater in 1894, and applied that approach to a combination of classical productions and stagings of the work of the new realistic playwrights.

One of Brahm's ensemble, the legendary theater director Max Reinhardt, took over the directorship in 1904. Under his leadership, it acquired a reputation as one of the most significant theaters in the world. In 1905, he founded a theater school and built a chamber theater. Reinhardt remained the artistic director of the theater until he fled Nazi Germany in 1933.

The Deutsches Theater remains one of the most prominent companies in Berlin.

References

Cited references

Other references

Banham, Martin, ed. 1998a. "Deutsches Theater." In The Cambridge Guide to Theater. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . p. 294.
---. 1998b. "Meiningen company." In The Cambridge Guide to Theater. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . p. 718.
Willett, John and Ralph Manheim. 1970. Introduction. In Collected Plays: One by Bertolt Brecht. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. Bertolt Brecht: Plays, Poetry and Prose Ser. London: Methuen. . p.vii-xvii.

References

Banham (1998a) and (1998b).
Banham (1998a).
Noack, Bernd. (9 September 2023). "Max Reinhardt erfand im Theater die Regie und inszenierte sein eigenes Leben".
"[In 1924, Brecht] was about to go as a 'dramaturg', or literary advisor, to Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in Berlin, at that time one of the world's three or four leading theaters." (Willett and Manheim 1970, vii).

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