Playhouse
A playhouse is a theater building that is mainly used for the performance of plays , i.e. spoken theater. The term Schauspielhaus is often used for the theater business (in the institutional sense) that is active there. This applies in particular to theaters that only offer acting and have no musical theater or dance division. Playhouse in this sense is often a company with several venues, so it does not refer to a specific building.
Well-known independent theaters in the German-speaking area, which are called "Schauspielhaus", were or are:
- Berlin: Schauspielhaus Berlin , Großes Schauspielhaus , Neues Schauspielhaus (Berlin-Schöneberg)
- Bochum: Schauspielhaus Bochum
- Dortmund: Playhouse of the Dortmund Theater
- Dresden: Theater of the Dresden State Theater
- Düsseldorf: Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
- Erfurt: Schauspielhaus (Erfurt)
- Essen: Grillo-Theater (the converted former city theater)
- Frankfurt am Main: Schauspielhaus (Frankfurt)
- Graz: Schauspielhaus Graz
- Hamburg: German theater
- Hanover: Hanover Theater
- Cologne: Schauspiel Köln
- Königsberg (Prussia): New theater (until 1945)
- Leipzig: Schauspielhaus Leipzig
- Munich: Münchner Schauspielhaus (until 1925)
- Munich: Münchner Kammerspiele - Schauspielhaus Munich
- Neubrandenburg: Schauspielhaus Neubrandenburg
- Potsdam: Royal Theater (Potsdam)
- Salzburg: Schauspielhaus Salzburg (formerly Elisabethbühne )
- Stuttgart: Altes Schauspielhaus Stuttgart , also the small house in Stuttgart
- Vienna: Schauspielhaus Wien , also Burgtheater , Akademietheater , Theater in der Josefstadt and Volkstheater (Vienna)
- Wuppertal: Schauspielhaus Wuppertal (until 2013)
- Zurich: Schauspielhaus Zurich
In addition, in many German-speaking municipal and state multi-party theaters, the theater's venue is called a playhouse (often also a small house ) in contrast to the opera house (often also a large house ). Schauspielhaus often referred to in this context, the used for the spectacle of theater space in a theater building, which has two or more theater spaces.
The Schauspielhaus on Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin has been operated as the Konzerthaus Berlin since 1984 . The large theater in Berlin, which opened in 1919 near Schiffbauerdamm, was renamed the Theater des Volkes in 1933 , operated as the Friedrichstadtpalast from 1947 and demolished in 1985.