Theater of the West

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The Theater des Westens in Berlin's Kantstrasse
Theater of the West, around 1900
Interior view with seating, 1912

The Theater des Westens (since 2011: Stage Theater des Westens ) is one of the most famous musical and operetta stages in Berlin . It is located at Kantstrasse 10-12 in the Charlottenburg district ( City West ).

history

founding

Share over 1000  marks in the Große Volksoper Berlin non-profit corporation from July 15, 1922

The theater was built in 1895/1896 in the style of Wilhelmine historicism by Bernhard Sehring on the former coal field of the C. Bolle dairy . Work on Kantstrasse began in August 1895 and the foundation stone was laid on September 4, 1895. The first operator of the theater was Theater des Westens GmbH , a company owned by Bernhard Sehring and Paul Blumenreich. The theater was opened on October 1, 1896 with Holger Drachmann's fairytale play Thousand and One Nights . In the autumn of 1897 Alois Prasch took over the management, which he had to give up again in 1898. From 1903 to 1906 he ran the theater again. After the desired success of the theater initially failed to materialize, the house was then used as an opera stage from 1898 and as an operetta theater from 1908 .

A fire severely damaged the house on August 25, 1912, after which it was restored. In 1922 the opera moved into the theater and a non-profit public limited company was founded (not to be confused with the older Volksoper on Belle-Alliance-Straße).

The consequences of hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic and a lack of shareholders forced the stock corporation to close the theater in 1925.

Roaring Twenties

Admission ticket to the operetta Friederike , 1929
Mistinguett during her stay in Berlin in 1931 for the Mistinguett revue in the Theater des Westens

In the " golden twenties " Carl Richter became the new director. Constantly changing lease agreements left an unmanageable labyrinth of directors and artistic directors and as a result a very changeable game plan emerged in the later years. The guest performances of the dance group Mary Wigman and Anna Pawlowa in 1926 triggered storms of applause. The performances in the Theater des Westens increasingly came into competition with the furnishing revues in the Admiralspalast and the Großes Schauspielhaus .

Emil Schwarz became the new tenant and artistic director. His new revues The Train to the West and Do you already know ...? did not find a great response.

Hans Lüpschütz took over the theater and mixed traditional plays, including Die Fledermaus or Alt Heidelberg , with modern performances and cast them with prominent personalities of the time, such as Fritzi Massary in Eine Frau von Format 1927, Max Adalbert in Das Ekel 1928 and Josephine Baker in Please Boarding 1928.

From 1929 Alfred Rotter and Fritz Rotter leased the theater on Kantstrasse with the Deutsche Schauspiel-Betriebs-Aktiengesellschaft ; Hans Lüpschütz remained the director. The Rotter brothers were also general directors in the Metropol-Theater in Behrenstrasse and owners of the Lessing-Theater . The theater was with the staging Friedericke of Franz Lehár reopened, taken directly from the Metropol Theater, there were Kathe Dorsch and Richard Tauber on the Cast list. This was followed by Marietta , Hotel Stadt Lemberg and, in April 1930, The Land of Smiles, alternating with Paganini . In the 1930/1931 season, the Rotter brothers sub - leased the Theater des Westens and the Lessing Theater to Heinz Saltenburg and the Saltenburg Theaters were founded.

In 1931 the Mistinguett made a successful guest appearance in the Mistinguett Revue in the Theater des Westens.

In the basement of the theater was located from 1921 to 1923, the Wilde stage of Trude Hesterberg , from 1931 Tingel-Tangel Theater , directed by Friedrich Hollaender .

The Rotter brothers got caught up in a financial scandal and were hated by the press as the “ Jewish financial hassardur ”. In 1932 a Mr. Spitz was appointed as the new director in the person of the director and planned a popular operetta program.

time of the nationalsocialism

Program leaflet for the Volksoper in the Theater des Westens zu Hänsel and Gretel , 1935

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists on January 30, 1933, the light muse continued to be shown in the Theater des Westens under the direction of Karl Jöken together with his wife Edith Schollwer . The performances were called Everything for Eva , Young Wine , Alluring Flame and So Twittering the Boys . On December 29, 1933, all theater directors were asked to live up to the slogan Kraft durch Freude (KdF).

It was not until December 23, 1934 that the theater became part of the National Socialist program Kraft durch Freude with Albert Lortzing's Der Waffenschmied . reopened and was named Volksoper . In the Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1936 , as with many other theaters, the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda was named as the operator and a subsidy from the German Labor Front is shown. Head of the former was established in July 1935 Danziger general director and general music director Erich Orthmann appointed. The new season began on October 1, 1935 with the opera Fidelio .

After a major air raid during the Second World War , some Berlin theaters were able to play again at the end of 1943, but not the Volksoper. Folk opera concerts took place in the Plaza and the Philharmonie and a guest performance on April 25, 1944 in Hirschberg (today: Jelenia Góra ). Damage from bomb hits could be repaired by June 7, 1944. On July 14, 1944, the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger wrote the article Die Theaters unter dem Luftterror . In particular, the roof as well as the foyer and administration area were badly damaged.

Municipal Opera

Artistic director Michael Bohnen during the dress rehearsal for Fidelio 1945 together with Wilhelm Schirp, Irma Beilke, Karina Kutz and Günther Treptow

After the provisional restoration of the roof for the auditorium, Heinz Tietjen was appointed head of all opera theaters in Berlin on May 14, 1945 by the city commandant Nikolai Erastowitsch Bersarin . Heinz Tietjen then commissioned Michael Bohnen as artistic director of the municipal opera. From May 15, 1945, the house was now the home of the Städtische Oper Berlin (German Opera House) because the auditorium of the opera house on Bismarckstrasse had been destroyed during the war. In the German Opera House, Beethoven's Fidelio took place on September 2, 1945, the first opera performance in Berlin after the Second World War. The production was carried out by the director of the opera, Hans Wenzel (1904–1966).

Director of the Municipal Opera
Surname time
Michael beans 1945-1947
Heinz Tietjen 1948-1954
Carl Ebert 1954-1961

With the completion of the new Deutsche Oper , the opera ensemble moved back to Bismarckstrasse in 1961.

Important ensemble members and guests: Mathieu Ahlersmeyer , Sari Barabas , Hans Beirer , Johanna Blatter , Inge Borkh , Maria Callas , Lisa della Casa , Marcel Cordes , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Gottlob Frick , Josef Greindl , Boris Greverus , Elisabeth Grümmer , Margarete Klose , Rober Koffmane , Sándor Kónya , Erika Köth , Ernst Krukowski , Vera Little , Josef Metternich , Martha Mödl , Mario del Monaco , Martha Musial , Tomislav Neralic , Hans-Heinz Nissen , Lisa Otto , Hermann Prey , Nadar Puttar , Anneliese Rothenberger , Leonie Rysanek , Tatjana Sais , Wilhelm Schirp , Rudolf Schock , Gisela Settgast , Giuseppe Di Stefano , Rita Streich , Ludwig Suthaus , Renata Tebaldi , Elfride Trötschel , Sieglinde Wagner .

Ballet: Klaus Beelitz , Erwin Bredow , Marion Cito , Heinz Egner , Michael Egner , Jürgen Feindt , Konstanze Herzfeld , Rudolf Holz , Benno Kaminski , Rainer Köchermann , Wolfgang Leistner , Gert Reinholm , Hans-Joachim Stahl , Manfred Taubert , Carl Jaeger, Gisela Deege , Lieselotte Herbeth , Friedel Herfurth , Tana Herzberg , Suse Preisser , Ingeborg Settgast , Margo Ufer , Lieselotte Köster-Stahl , Horst Stibbe , Konstanze Vernon .

Operetta and musical theater 1961–1978

Program sheet for My Fair Lady , 1961, beginning of the musical in the Theater des Westens

Since then, the Theater des Westens has been used primarily for operettas and musicals. The first performance on October 1, 1961, was Frederick Loewe's musical My Fair Lady .

Karl-Heinz Stracke became director in 1964 and ran the theater very successfully. In order to prevent a financial gap in good time, Stracke gave up the management of the theater and Siegfried Wölffer became the new tenant. The Wölffer brothers had already directed the theater from 1961 and could no longer build on the success of the musical My Fair Lady . In 1974 Vincent and Eynar Grabowsky became sub-tenants. From 1976 the Grabowsky brothers also got caught up in a financial scandal; Missing fees, fraudulent subsidies and evaded taxes up to an arrest warrant also brought the Grabowsky era to an end.

Operetta and musical theater 1978–2003

Götz Friedrich , director from 1984 to 1994 at the Theater des Westens

In 1978 the entire theater was modernized, in the same year Karl Vibach took over the management of the house. In the 1980s, the building was repeatedly renovated and modernized, both inside and out. In 1984 Götz Friedrich became director of the house, Helmut Baumann its artistic director. The first two great successes of this time were Guys and Dolls and La Cage aux Folles .

In 1988 Götz Friedrich directed Porgy and Bess, the first new production of an "all black opera" in Europe and enjoyed a sensational worldwide success. He and his chief dramaturge Valerie Hennecke, who built up production for two years, including head PR and marketing between Berlin and New York , received the “Audience Award”. The multiple cast was cast in New York ( Harlem ) and Berlin .

At that time the Theater des Westens GmbH was one of the most modern musical stages in Europe with sophisticated technical equipment and inventions. There was a cooperation with all embassies in Berlin, the Berliner Festspiele for the Berliner Festwochen, the International Film Festival regarding the annual International Film Awards, the RIAS , the SOB and the Deutsche Oper Berlin (as a replacement stage due to renovation work). that the "Alte Oper Charlottenburg" has excellent acoustics for classical music, which can also be used without microphones.

The management under Götz Friedrich and Helmut Baumann with selected top employees was exemplary and innovative. There was the first marketing director and the first event marketing in Germany. The GmbH was fully booked for several years and had a permanent occupancy rate of over 98 percent.

Important ensemble members and guests: Donnie Ray Albert , Albert Bonnema , Helmut Baumann , Terry Cook , Clamma Dale , Ute Lemper , Wilhelmenia Fernandez , Hildegard Knef , Angelika Milster , Helen Schneider , Caterina Valente , Daniel Washington , Elisabeth Werres , Charles Williams and Queen Yahna . Johannes Heesters was an honorary member .

Helmut Baumann also became director of the Theater des Westens in 1993 and in 1994 caused the house to be sold out for months with the 1950s revue Blue Jeans . In 1996 the 100th birthday of the theater was celebrated, but times became more difficult: The assignment to offer a varied program with four premieres or revivals per year was difficult to implement in view of the lower public subsidies and recruitment freeze, so that Helmut Baumann in the Summer 1999 left the house.

In 1999 Elmar Ottenthal became the new director. The non-profit operating GmbH, which belonged to the state of Berlin, got deeper and deeper into the red; with the exception of Falco meets Amadeus in 2000, the company could no longer build on the successes of the Baumann era.

In the 2001/2002 season, Georg Vierthaler was appointed artistic director and managing director of Theater des Westens GmbH by the supervisory board. He was also the managing director of the State Opera Unter den Linden .

In 2002 the Berlin Senate was able to implement the resolution passed in 1990 to sell the GmbH.

Stage entertainment

The organizer's logo

On September 24, 2002, the Berlin Senate decided to sell the Theater des Westens to the Dutch musical group Stage Entertainment ; the building itself remains in state ownership. Renovation work started in January 2003. According to the company, the renovation cost ten million euros.

On September 26, 2003, the theater reopened with the musical Les Misérables by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg .

Since then, Stage Entertainment no longer employs a permanent ensemble and shows long-term performances with Stage Entertainment productions, which can be seen alternately on various German and international stages.

In 2011 the theater was renamed Stage Theater des Westens .

building

top, roof

On the west side of Max Kruse's messenger of victory from Marathon . In 1987 the roof lanterns created by Gustav Eberlein were reconstructed.

stage

The stage width is 20 meters and is 16.75 meters deep, together with the front and back stages it is 24.5 meters deep, portal width 11.5 meters, portal height 8.2 meters. The upper machinery has 24 electric winches and 33 manual counter-hoists.

foyer

The total area is 1673 square meters. In the parquet there is a coffered ceiling with 800 flower rosettes with light bulbs, with a coat of arms in between. Foyer first tier (high parquet): 1200 rosettes with light bulbs.

Auditorium

Indication of the respective year with the corresponding number of places

  • 1896: 1710 seats and around 100 standing places
  • 1907: 1,271 seats and 98 standing places
  • 1937: 1592 seats
  • 1950: 1514 seats
  • 1978: 1354 seats
  • 1984: 1401 seats
  • 2009: 1712 seats
  • 2012: 1600 seats

facade

The main facade of the theater shows clear parallels to the Opéra Garnier in Paris, which was completed 20 years earlier .

Dimensions of the facade:

  • 40.58 meters long, 22 meters high, balcony 28 meters long, arched window 9 meters high.

  • Evening shot of the theater

  • Auditorium , redesigned since 2003

  • View of the building in August 1963

  • View of the stage tower from the east side of the site

  • Entrance (imperial staircase) from the Delphi Filmpalast garden restaurant to the theater

  • Figure on the corner tower , cast aluminum, reconstructed in 1988

  • Perseusgruppe on the south side to Kantstrasse

  • Dancer with robe in the foyer
    Sculptor: Fritz Heinemann

  • Figure group at the main entrance

Productions

Productions at the Stage Theater des Westens Berlin since 2003
Beginning The End title genre Remarks  
September 26, 2003 December 31, 2004 Les Misérables musical
0April 6, 2005 June 25, 2006 The three musketeers German premiere
0August 5, 2006 November 18, 2006 Aida
December 10, 2006 March 30, 2008 dance of the Vampires
April 20, 2008 September 27, 2008 Elisabeth
0December 7, 2008 May 30, 2010 Manitou's shoe World premiere
October 21, 2010 October 21, 2011 We will rock you Jukebox musical
November 14, 2011 August 25, 2013 dance of the Vampires musical Resumption
20th October 2013 September 28, 2014 Companions Play German premiere
October 26, 2014 February 14, 2015 Mamma Mia! Jukebox musical
March 25, 2015 September 27, 2015 I have never been to New York
October 11, 2015 17th January 2016 Chicago musical Resumption
January 24, 2016 April 10, 2016 I have never been to New York Jukebox musical
April 24, 2016 September 25, 2016 dance of the Vampires musical
0October 9, 2016 February 25, 2017 Sister Act
0April 9, 2017 04th November 2017 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
07th December 2017 0October 7, 2018 Ghost
October 21, 2018 17th March 2019 dance of the Vampires Resumption
April 11, 2019 15th September 2019 The band German premiere
22nd September 2019 March 12, 2020 Mamma Mia! Jukebox musical Resumption
Productions in the Theater des Westens Berlin 1978 up to the takeover by Stage Entertainment in 2003
Beginning The End title genre Remarks
0 May 1978 0 May 1978 I Was Sitting on My Patio This Guy Appeared I Thought I Was Hallucinating - Robert Wilson Play
0 December 1978 0 May 1979 Cabaret musical
0 May 1979 0 October 1979 Like once in May operetta
0 October 1979 0 December 1979 Showboat musical
0 January 1980 0 April 1980 applause
0 April 1980 0 May 1980 Kiss me Kate
0 May 1980 0 June 1980 Robert Stolz and his world revue
0 October 1980 0 November 1980 Cinderella ballet Guest performance
0 November 1980 0 January 1981 The valiant dressmaker Opera
0 January 1981 0 January 1981 Cinderella ballet Guest performance
0 February 1981 0 May 1981 West Side Story musical
0 May 1981 0 June 1981 The firework
0 June 1981 0 August 1981 West Side Story
0 August 1981 0 August 1981 Hooray we're dying
0 October 1981 0 November 1981 Mrs. Luna operetta
0 December 1981 0 December 1981 The firework musical
0 November 1981 0 December 1981 Snow white Opera
0 December 1981 0 December 1981 The Nutcracker ballet
0 January 1982 0 January 1982 Bubbling Brown Sugar musical
0 January 1982 0 May 1982 Oklahoma
0 April 1982 0 May 1982 The Merry Widow operetta
0 May 1982 0 May 1982 Anachnu Kan - We are here Guest performance
0 May 1982 0 May 1982 Marcel Marceau mime
0 May 1982 0 May 1982 Julia Migenes concert
0 May 1982 0 June 1982 No, no, Nanette musical
0 July 1982 0 August 1982 Mrs. Luna operetta
0 September 1982 0 November 1982 Evita musical
0 November 1982 0 January 1983 Puss in Boots Opera
0 December 1982 0 January 1983 The Merry Widow operetta
0 January 1983 0 January 1983 Marcel Marceau mime
0 January 1983 0 January 1983 Ultravox concert
0 February 1983 0 February 1983 Dalida
0 January 1983 0 February 1983 Ain't misbehavin ' musical
0 May 1983 0 May 1983 Teatro Gitano Andaluz flamenco
0 July 1983 0 August 1983 Bubbling Brown Sugar musical
0 August 1983 0 September 1983 Countess Mariza operetta
0 September 1983 0 October 1983 Anatevka musical
0 October 1983 0 December 1983 The man from La Mancha
0 November 1983 0 December 1983 Pinocchio
0 December 1983 0 April 1984 My fair lady
0 September 1984 0 November 1984 Jesus Christ superstar
0 December 1984 0 February 1985 Guys and Dolls
0 December 1984 0 February 1985 Peter Pan
0 February 1985 0 March 1985 The gypsy baron operetta
0 April 1985 0 May 1985 Kurt Weill Review musical
0 April 1985 0 August 1985 The rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny Opera
0 July 1985 0 August 1985 Irma la Douce musical
0 August 1985 0 August 1985 Rock and poetry festival
0 September 1985 0 September 1985 Mummenschanz mask theater mime
0 October 1985 0 September 1985 The rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny Opera
0 December 1985 0 December 1985 The little Prince musical
0 December 1985 0 December 1985 Klaus Hoffmann concert
0 October 1985 0 January 1986 La Cage aux Folles musical
0 January 1986 0 March 1986 The Gypsy Princess operetta
0 March 1986 0 April 1987 Company musical
0 April 1986 0 May 1986 Under the rainbow
0 June 1986 0 July 1986 Viennese blood operetta
0 June 1986 0 June 1986 German film award Special event
0 July 1986 0 July 1986 Spell spell revue
0 August 1986 0 November 1986 La Cage aux Folles musical
0 November 1986 0 March 1987 Peter Pan
0 April 1987 0 May 1987 Schlemihl operetta
0 May 1987 0 May 1987 Transit - presentation by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld Gala
0 May 1987 0 May 1987 peace play Guest performance
0 June 1987 0 June 1987 German film award Special event
0 August 1987 0 August 1987 The Threepenny Opera Acting with music
0 July 1987 0 July 1987 A chorus line musical Guest performance
0 August 1987 0 August 1987 Spell spell revue
0 September 1987 0 September 1987 The tower of Josef Tal Opera Guest performance
0 September 1987 0 September 1987 Troades by Aribert Reimann
0 November 1987 0 December 1987 Oliver! musical
0 October 1987 0 December 1987 Cabaret
0 December 1987 0 December 1987 Chrismas Time Opera revue "With stars" of the opera stage
0 December 1987 0 January 1988 Caterina Valente : I'm still here! show
0 January 1988 0 March 1988 The land of smiles operetta
0 March 1988 0 April 1988 Chicago musical
0 May 1988 0 June 1988 Porgy and Bess Opera
0 June 1988 0 June 1988 German film award Special event
0 August 1988 0 August 1988 Camacho's wedding Opera Guest performance
0 August 1988 0 November 1988 La Cage aux Folles musical
0 December 1988 0 February 1989 Cabaret
0 March 1988 0 April 1989 Porgy and Bess Opera
0 April 1989 0 June 1989 The love potion ballet Guest performance
0 April 1989 0 June 1989 Reineke Fuchs musical
0 June 1989 0 June 1989 In a dream the sky is blue Special event
0 April 1989 0 June 1989 Swan Lake ballet Guest performance
0 April 1989 0 June 1989 The blue Angel
0 April 1989 0 June 1989 Java for ever
0 April 1989 0 June 1989 Les Intermittences du Coeur
0 April 1989 0 June 1989 Giselle
0 April 1989 0 June 1989 So fan tutte Opera
0 April 1989 0 June 1989 Maria Stuarda
0 April 1989 0 June 1989 Candide
0 June 1989 0 June 1989 German film award Special event
0 July 1989 0 July 1989 Rigoletto Opera Guest performance
0 July 1989 0 October 1989 The Threepenny Opera Acting with music
October 7, 1989 October 8, 1989 Opera choirs gala and charity event for the reunification of West and East Berlin Special event
0 November 1989 0 March 1990 One two Three musical
0 February 1990 0 February 1990 La Grand Scena Opera CO Opera parodies Guest performance from New York City
0 April 1990 0 May 1990 Porgy and Bess Opera
0 June 1990 0 June 1990 German film award Special event
0 May 1990 0 June 1990 Sophisticated ladies musical
0 June 1990 0 October 1990 In the white Rößl Singspiel
0 October 1990 0 November 1990 Sarafina musical
0 November 1990 0 November 1990 Reinhard Mey concert
0 November 1990 0 December 1990 La Cage aux Folles musical
0 January 1991 0 May 1991 Grand Hotel
0 May 1991 0 May 1991 Ring around the ring ballet Guest performance
0 May 1991 0 May 1991 Five tangos Dance piece
0 May 1991 0 May 1991 Carmen Opera
0 May 1991 0 May 1991 Whos Cares ballet
0 June 1991 0 June 1991 German film award Special event
0 June 1991 0 June 1991 Allez hops revue
0 July 1991 0 September 1991 Kurt Weill Review musical
0 September 1991 0 December 1991 Follies
0 January 1992 0 April 1992 Sweet Charity
0 April 1992 0 May 1992 Josephine Guest performance
0 March 1992 0 April 1992 Porgy and Bess Opera
0 May 1992 0 September 1992 The blue Angel musical
0 September 1992 0 December 1992 UFA-Revue - Bomb atmosphere
0 January 1993 0 April 1993 Anything Goes
0 May 1993 0 June 1993 Porgy and Bess
0 September 1993 0 November 1993 Cabaret
0 November 1993 0 December 1993 UFA-Revue - Bomb atmosphere
0 January 1994 0 April 1994 My fair lady
0 May 1994 0 July 1994 Anything Goes
0 June 1994 0 June 1994 Federal Film Prize Special event
0 July 1994 0 August 1994 My One And Only musical
0 September 1994 0 November 1994 Cyrano
0 November 1994 0 December 1994 Blue jeans
0 April 1994 0 April 1994 Nero imperial child Art opera
0 January 1995 0 March 1995 Street scene musical
0 February 1995 0 February 1995 KAMA transmits SOS Special event
0 March 1995 0 June 1995 La Cage aux Folles musical
0 June 1995 0 October 1995 Blue jeans
0 October 1995 0 December 1995 Hello Dolly
0 January 1996 0 February 1996 Johnny Johnson
0 March 1996 0 June 1996 Damn Yankees
0 June 1996 0 December 1996 Pirates of Penzances
0 January 1997 0 March 1997 Conditions like in ancient Rome
0 April 1997 0 June 1997 Let's pop
0 June 1997 0 July 1997 Stomp Guest performance
0 October 1997 0 December 1997 Gypsy musical
0 December 1997 0 December 1997 Rosenstolz : Nymphomaniac under the Christmas tree concert
0 February 1998 0 April 1998 Dream girls musical
0 May 1998 0 August 1998 30/60/90 Open all day
0 January 1999 0 February 1999 Tap dogs Guest performance
0 February 1999 0 June 1999 Nine musical
0 September 1999 0 July 2000 Chicago
September 23, 2000 April 20, 2001 Falco meets Amadeus Jukebox musical
0 April 2001 0 April 2001 Peter Ustinov birthday party Special event
May 19, 2001 July 22, 2001 Schwejk it easy! musical
September 11, 2001 March 10, 2002 Falco meets Amadeus Jukebox musical
March 14, 2002 May 12, 2002 Grease musical
June 12, 2002 June 23, 2002 Evita
August 6, 2002 August 25, 2002 Stomp Guest performance
September 10, 2002 October 6, 2002 Evita musical
November 14, 2002 January 31, 2003 From the spirit of Christmas
April 8, 2003 May 12, 2003 Mayumana Special event Guest performance
May 15, 2003 May 28, 2003 Ballet for Life - Maurice Béjart ballet
May 31, 2003 July 29, 2003 Porgy and Bess Opera Guest performance

World premieres

Open-door day

The theater opens its gates at regular intervals to allow a look behind the scenes. Depending on the production, the costume tailoring and mask department of the theater can be visited, as well as the stage with the original backdrop of the current performance.

documentation

  • Les Misérables - a musical for Berlin. The theater of the west in a new rhythm. Documentation, Germany, 2003, 43 min., First broadcast on RBB on September 26, 2003, teaser on youtube , script & direction: Jeremy JP Fekete , production: RBB

Web links

Commons : Theater des Westens  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German Poets and Proseists from the Beginning of the 19th Century to the Present , Vol. 5, 6th Edition Leipzig 1913, p. 335
  2. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1925. Published by the Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnenangehöriger , Berlin W 62, vol. 36, p. 287.
  3. ^ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1926. Published by the Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnenangehöriger, Berlin W 62, volume 37.
  4. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1927. Published by the Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnenangehöriger, Berlin W 62, vol. 38.
  5. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1928 and 1929. Published by the Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnenangehöriger, Berlin W 62, vol. 38/39.
  6. ↑ Program sheet for The Disgust. Publisher: Bepa-Verlag Benzki & Pakuscher, Berlin W 35, p. 1.
  7. ↑ Program leaflet for Please get in , publisher: KABA-Verlag, printing: Fischer-Druck GmbH, Berlin SO 16, p. 1.
  8. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1930. Published by the Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnenangehöriger, Berlin W 62, vol. 41, p. 295.
  9. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1930. Published by the Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnenangehöriger, Berlin W 62, year 41, p. 288.
  10. ↑ Program sheet for Friedericke , publisher: KABA-Verlag, printing: Fischer-Druck GmbH, Berlin SO 16, p. 8.
  11. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1931. Published by the Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnenangehöriger, Berlin W 62, vol. 42, p. 292.
  12. ↑ Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger (morning edition), April 25, 1931.
  13. ↑ Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger (morning edition), September 6, 1932.
  14. ↑ Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger (morning edition), December 29, 1933.
  15. ↑ Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger (evening edition), December 20, 1934.
  16. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1936. Publisher: Fachschaft Bühne in the Reichstheaterkammer Berlin W 62, p. 245.
  17. ↑ Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger , November 27, 1943.
  18. ↑ Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger of December 17, 1944
  19. ^ Building archive of the Berlin-Charlottenburg district office, revision files 1928–1944.
  20. ^ The Charlottenburg Opera House from 1912 to 1961. Dissertation by Detlef Meyer zu Heringsdorf, publisher: Deutsche Oper Berlin 1988, p. 72. ISBN 3-926412-07-0 .
  21. ^ The Charlottenburg Opera House from 1912 to 1961. Dissertation by Detlef Meyer zu Heringsdorf, publisher: Deutsche Oper Berlin 1988, p. 75. ISBN 3-926412-07-0 .
  22. ^ A b Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1973. Published by the Cooperative of German Theater Members: Verlag Bühnenschriften-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft mbH, Hamburg, p. 181.
  23. ↑ The daily mirror. Issued June 17, 1976.
  24. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , February 18, 1999.
  25. ^ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 2000. Published by the Cooperative of German Theater Members: Bühnenschriften-Vertriebs-GmbH, Hamburg, 1999/2000 season.
  26. ↑ Birgit Walter: Among plunderers . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 19, 2002.
  27. ^ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 2002. Published by the Cooperative of German Theater Members: Bühnenschriften-Vertriebs-GmbH, Hamburg, 2001/2002 season.
  28. ^ Der Tagesspiegel , September 25, 2002.
  29. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , July 24, 2003.
  30. ↑ a b Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 2009. Published by the Cooperative of German Theater Members: Bühnenschriften-Vertriebs-GmbH, Hamburg, season 2008/2009, p. 59.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 21.4 "  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 44.6"  E