Komödienhaus (Berlin)

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The Komödienhaus in Berlin-Mitte at Schiffbauerdamm 25 was an event building for Berliners and tourists. The culture house was built around 1907/1908 and was opened on March 6, 1908 as the New Operetta Theater . Allied air raids on Berlin destroyed the house in November 1943. The magistrate of Berlin was the ruins after the end of World War II enttrümmern .

Description and history

The cultural company was a GmbH at Schiffbauerdamm 25 and was opened in a new building. Because of the similarity of names ( Neues Theater under Alfred Schmidtgen ) it was easy to confuse them in close proximity (Schiffbauerdamm 4–6). (From the latter, the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm emerged and from this the Berliner Ensemble (Brecht Theater) emerged in 1949. )

The building with its front facing the Spree was four floors high and had a loft. In the middle of the facade there was a wide balcony that extended over the second and third floors and was decorated with columns . Above it ran the tape with the name of the theater on the fourth floor. Also in the middle of the building, but on the roof, the architect erected an open lantern with a small round dome.

Auditorium of the New Operetta Theater in 1912, divided into three floors and decorated in an Art Nouveau style

The bass singer Max Marx gave a part at the New Operetta Theater as early as 1908.

In 1910, visitors could see the operetta in 3 acts The Count of Luxembourg by Alfred Maria Willner and Robert Bodanzky with music by Franz Lehár .

The first director of the house was Victor Palfi . Palfi, who was also an actor, had moved from the Lustspielhaus on Friedrichstrasse to the new venue in 1907 .

The operetta theater soon changed its play repertoire according to the taste of the time to the performance of comedies and was henceforth called Komödienhaus or Komödienhaus Berlin .

In the 1912/13 season, the actor Heinz Sarnow appeared in the Komödienhaus Berlin . Friedrich Siems was senior director at the Komödienhaus in 1935/36 and Detlef Sierck was the director of this theater from 1936–1938. Lotte Stein also appeared in the Komödienhaus in 1932/33, Karel Štěpánek also had engagements here between 1927 and 1939. Finally, appearances by Hans von Zedlitz at the Berliner Komödienhaus in the seasons 1933/34 and 1935/36 are also documented.

1929 took place in the Comedy House Berlin premiere of comedy Scribbys soups are the best place. In the film also seemed Curt Bois and Paul Hörbiger with.

On January 17, 1932, the piece was here the mother of Bertolt Brecht premiered.

The Berlin address book showed, among other things, in 1922 the auditorium of the Komödienhaus on Schiffbauerdamm with two tiers and four side boxes. There was space for around 1000 spectators.

Despite the destruction, the comedy house can still be found in the address book in 1943. It usually took several months from the reporting time and the printing of the work to its delivery. After the war, the address disappeared from the books. In 2020 there will be no new building at Schiffbauerdamm 25. However, some government buildings were built nearby, including the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Operetten-Theater GmbH . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1911, I, p. 2056.
  2. ↑ a b c d Komödienhaus Berlin on a private homepage, accessed on January 30, 2020.
  3. ^ View from 1913 and brief information on the new operetta theater on pastvu.com, accessed on January 30, 2020.
  4. ^ Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Large Singer Lexicon , Volume 4; Page 2967.
  5. ↑ a b Program booklet Neues Operettentheater Berlin, 1910 , accessed on January 30, 2020.
  6. ^ Program booklet Der Graf von Luxemburg , 1910 , on oldthings.de; accessed on January 30, 2020.
  7. ↑ 1907. Neuer Theateralmach , accessed on January 30, 2020.
  8. ↑ Frithjof Trapp, Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß (all ed.): Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists , Verlag Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2013; ISBN 3-598-11375-7 ; P. 821; 869; 870; 898; 906; 1047.
  9. ^ John M. Spalek, Joseph Strelka: German-language exile literature since 1933 , Verlag Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2018,
  10. ↑ picture Curt Dubois and Paul Hörbiger in Scribbys Soups are the best (1929). Accessed January 30, 2020.
  11. ↑ Ads . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1922, I, p. 21 (at the top right it says that the theater can hold around 1000 people).
  12. ↑ Theater directory . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, II.

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 11.7 "  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 51.8"  E