Theater on Potsdamer Platz

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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '25.2 "  N , 13 ° 22'19.3"  E

The theater during the Berlinale 2017

The Theater am Potsdamer Platz is a musical theater in the Tiergarten district of Berlin .

history

Front view of the theater on Potsdamer Platz
Foyer of the theater on Potsdamer Platz

The theater building by the architect Renzo Piano on Marlene-Dietrich-Platz was completed on October 2nd, 1998 near Potsdamer Platz and opened as a musical theater on June 5th, 1999. With 1754 seats, the theater is one of the largest theaters in Germany.

Until the end of June 2002, The Hunchback of Notre Dame was a musical that was also premiered here. It was a novelty that a Disney musical was not premiered either on Broadway or in London's West End , but in Berlin. After the bankruptcy of the musical organizer Stella Entertainment AG, the theater was taken over by Stage Entertainment in July 2002 . After an interlude with Andrew Lloyd Webber's Musical Cats , the profile was expanded in May 2004 with the European premiere of the New York show troupe Blue Man Group for performance theater , a mixture of rock show, comedy , percussion spectacle and action painting. After the Blue Man Group moved to the BlueMax Theater on the other side of Marlene-Dietrich-Platz in February 2007, the musical Beauty and the Beast was performed in the Theater am Potsdamer Platz from March to September 2007 . On October 21, 2007 the ABBA musical Mamma Mia! Premiere in the presence of the former band members Björn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . The show ran until January 26, 2009. On April 7, 2009, Dirty Dancing premiered in the Theater am Potsdamer Platz, where it could be seen until November 2010. From the world premiere on January 13, 2011 to August 28, 2016, the musical Hinterm Horizont was performed with songs by Udo Lindenberg .

Since the Berlinale 2000 , the Theater am Potsdamer Platz has been the main venue for the Berlin International Film Festival every February . During this time the theater was called the Berlinale Palast . In addition to the premieres of the competition films, the opening film and the award ceremony will also take place here. For this reason, the entire set of the current musical production is being expanded and the theater is being transformed into a cinema.

From 2011 to 2013 the Golden Hen was awarded in the Theater am Potsdamer Platz . The award ceremony moved from the Friedrichstadtpalast , where the award ceremony took place from 1995 to 2010, to Potsdamer Platz.

The last performance of the musical Hinterm Horizont was on August 28, 2016 . Although the lease will continue to run until 2022 with three million euros per year, no follow-up musical is planned because, according to the current tenants, Stage Entertainment, temporarily subletting the theater is more profitable in this case than a new production.

In October 2019 it was announced that the previous investor and landlord Brookfield Properties and the tenant Stage Entertainment had reached an agreement with the new interested party Live Nation from Frankfurt am Main to replace the lease from May 2020. A production by Cirque du Soleil is planned there from winter 2020 - adapted for Berlin .

Musicals and shows in the theater at Potsdamer Platz Berlin
Beginning The End musical genre organizer Remarks
June 5, 1999 June 30, 2002 The Hunchback of Notre Dame musical Stella Entertainment AG World premiere
November 12, 2001 January 31, 2002 Emil and the detectives
October 20, 2002 January 30, 2004 Cats Revue musical Stage entertainment
May 9, 2004 January 31, 2007 Blue Man Group show European premiere
March 9, 2007 September 10, 2007 Beauty and the Beast musical
October 21, 2007 January 26, 2009 Mamma Mia! Jukebox musical
April 7, 2009 November 14, 2010 Dirty Dancing show
January 13, 2011 August 28, 2016 Beyond the horizon Jukebox musical World premiere

Web links

Commons : Theater am Potsdamer Platz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ One last look behind the horizon. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Accessed January 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Cirque du Soleil moves to Potsdamer Platz. Accessed January 1, 2020 .