Deutsches Theater
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 Deutsches Theater facts

• It was built in 1850 as Friedrich-Wilhelm-Städtisches Theater, after Frederick William IV of Prussia
• Located on Schumann Street (Schumannstraße), the Deutsches Theater consists of two adjoining stages that share a common, classical facade
• The main stage was built in 1850, originally for operettas
• Adolf L'Arronge founded the Deutsches Theater in 1883 with the ambition of providing Berliners with a high-quality ensemble-based repertory company on the model of the German court theatre, the Meiningen Ensemble, which had been developed by Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and his colleagues to become "the most widely admired and imitated company in Europe", thanks to its historically accurate sets and costumes, vividly-realized crowd scenes, and meticulous directorial control
• Otto Brahm, the leading exponent of theatrical Naturalism in Germany, took over the direction of the theatre in 1894, and applied that approach to a combination of classical productions and stagings of the work of the new realistic playwrights
• One of Brahm's ensemble, the legendary theatre director Max Reinhardt, took over the directorship in 1904
• Under his leadership it acquired a reputation as one of the most significant theatres in the world
• In 1905 he founded a theatre-school and built a chamber theatre
• Reinhardt remained the artistic director of the theatre until he fled Nazi Germany in 1933
• The Deutsches Theater remains one of the most prominent companies in Berlin