Victoria Theater
The Victoria Theater, opened in 1859 at Münzstrasse 20 in Berlin-Mitte, was a unique architectural experiment in that it combined a summer and a winter theater (i.e. an auditorium open on the sides and a closed auditorium) with a common stage in between. The auditorium of the winter theater had three tiers with a gallery and a total of 1400 seats. The entire room could also be used for dance balls.
The theater was planned by the impresario and actor Rudolf Cerf (with the participation of the actor Robert Guthery senior ) and opened after he left the Wallner Theater . It was built by the Berlin theater builder Eduard Titz , based on plans by Carl Ferdinand Langhans . The first plans to have a kind of shopping center and a concert hall in front of the theater were not implemented for financial reasons.
August Conradi was Kapellmeister, and actors and singers such as Hermann Hendrichs , Emil Hahn (1871–1881, as conductor), Charlotte Wolter and Anna Müller-Lincke worked here. At this theater, pieces of equipment based on the Parisian model, operas and early forms of the revue were given. Angelo Neumann and his troupe designed the Berlin premiere of Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen here in 1881 . Since the 1870s, the summer theater has only been used as a backstage. After the double playability in summer and winter was no longer possible due to structural changes, the theater could no longer assert itself. It was closed and demolished in 1891.
literature
- Eberhard Dellé: Dramatic girls for everything. The Viktoria Theater in Berlin. , in: Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin "The Bear of Berlin", Berlin 1952.
- Langhans: The Victoria Theater in Berlin . In: Journal of Construction . Year 10 (1860), col. 315–342, 635, sheet O, plates 36–39. Digitized in the holdings of the Central and State Library Berlin .
- Hans-Rüdiger Merten: Forgotten theaters in old Berlin. A search for clues . Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89626-599-7 .
- New Theater-Almanach 3 (1892), p. 22.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '27 .4 " N , 13 ° 24' 30.4" E