Berlin Theater (Schöneberg)

The Berliner Theater was a private boulevard theater in the Femina-Palast on Nürnberger Strasse , which was founded in 1958. The hall held around 500 spectators.

Tabloids such as the crime comedy No corpse without Lily (1967) by Jack Popplewell with Grete Weiser and Heinz Engelmann were performed , which, recorded on television , are still available on video portals and data carriers . Have occurred in the Berlin theater also Willy Birgel , Karin Jacobsen , Carl-Heinz Schroth , Gisela Trowe , Tilla Durieux , Paul Henckels and Inge Meysel .

In the fall of 1971, the Berlin State Administration canceled the lease contract with the theater. The reason given was a “considerable additional space requirement” for the Senate Department for Finance , which is located in the same building . An eviction date on September 30, 1972 passed. Instead, the director of the theater, Hela Gerber, announced new productions for the following season. Several authors, including Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Max Frisch , appealed in a letter to the then Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt to avert the closure.

Following several legal proceedings, the premises became the canteen of the Senate Department for Finance in 1973 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Without an author: For the time being, continue . In: DER SPIEGEL , No. 7/1973, pp. 109–112.
↑ Berliner Theater in the Internet Movie Database (English)

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↑ Programs from 1958 are available in antiquarian versions.
↑ ^a ^b Willi Kinnigkeit: Berlin dramaturgy of the savings commissioners . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 12, 1972, p. 3.
↑ Without an author: Authors against the closure of the “Berlin Theater” . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 8, 1973, p. 25.
^ Benny Krüger: From Femina to Ellington Hotel - A short biography of Nürnberger Strasse 50-55 . In: Jazzradio.net, September 2, 2016. Accessed August 28, 2020.
↑ "Until the 1970s, the hall in the courtyard of the Femina-Palast still housed the Berlin Theater, a popular theater with light entertainment from the Berlin milieu. Then it became the canteen of the Senator for Finance. ”(Without author: Die Location-Historie . In: https://www.dschungelberlin.de/history.html . Accessed on August 28, 2020). A photographic label is located on the side of the history of the hotel Ellington .

[Der_Spiegel-1] Without an author: For the time being, continue . In: DER SPIEGEL , No. 7/1973, pp. 109–112.

[2] Berliner Theater in the Internet Movie Database (English)

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[3] Programs from 1958 are available in antiquarian versions.

[SZ1972-4] Willi Kinnigkeit: Berlin dramaturgy of the savings commissioners . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 12, 1972, p. 3.

[5] Without an author: Authors against the closure of the “Berlin Theater” . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 8, 1973, p. 25.

[6] Benny Krüger: From Femina to Ellington Hotel - A short biography of Nürnberger Strasse 50-55 . In: Jazzradio.net, September 2, 2016. Accessed August 28, 2020.

[7] "Until the 1970s, the hall in the courtyard of the Femina-Palast still housed the Berlin Theater, a popular theater with light entertainment from the Berlin milieu. Then it became the canteen of the Senator for Finance. ”(Without author: Die Location-Historie . In: https://www.dschungelberlin.de/history.html . Accessed on August 28, 2020). A photographic label is located on the side of the history of the hotel Ellington .