The Stralsund Theatre (german: Stralsunder Theater) in the German town of

Stralsund Stralsund (; Swedish: ''Strålsund''), officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German: ''Hansestadt Stralsund''), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, N ...

has a long tradition. Performances of theatre pieces on the ''

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'' are documented in the years 1553 (''"Tragedie van deme Daniel"'') and 1584 (''"De Tragedien van Susannen"''). The present building was designed by

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and opened in 1914. The tradition has continued since the merger of the theatres of the towns of Stralsund and Greifswald in 1994 into the Theatre of West Pomerania (').

External links

Official web presence of theatres in West Pomerania

Baltic Sea Festivals in Stralsund & Greifswald

Conversion of Stralsund Theatre
(photographs, construction history, drawings) Stralsund Theatre in Germany Culture of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Theatres completed in 1914 {{MecklenburgVorpommern-geo-stub