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Theater Am Nollendorfplatz
The Metropol, formerly Neues Schauspielhaus ( en, New Theatre), at 5 Nollendorfplatz in the Schöneberg district of Berlin was built in 1905 as a theatre, with a separate concert hall (the Mozartsaal) above, in the then-fashionable Art Nouveau style. In 1911 the Mozartsaal was converted into a cinema with 925 seats. From the beginning of World War I the theatre turned into an operetta stage until in 1927, Erwin Piscator and Tilla Durieux opened their ''Theater am Nollendorfplatz'' in the building.There was cinema just across the road at number 4, called the Ufa-Theater am Nollendorfplatz from 1924 to 1927, with which it is sometimes confused. Piscator created critical performances by playwrights like Ernst Toller and Walter Mehring, with artists like Bertolt Brecht, George Grosz and John Heartfield at times working with him. Piscator's theater went bankrupt in 1929, and he emigrated in 1931. After the Nazi takeover the house became an operetta theatre once again, now under the di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Nollendorfplatz (colloquially called ''Nolle'' or ''Nolli'') is a square in the central Schöneberg district of Berlin, Germany. History The place was named on 27 November 1864 after the village of ''Nollendorf'' ( cs, Nakléřov) near Petrovice (Ústí nad Labem District), Petrovice in the present-day Czech Republic, a site of the 1813 Battle of Kulm where the united forces of the War of the Sixth Coalition, Sixth Coalition defeated a Second French Empire, French army under Dominique Vandamme. The victorious Prussian Army, Prussian troops were led by General Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf, Friedrich von Kleist, who in turn was elevated to a "Count of Nollendorf" by King Frederick William III of Prussia, Frederick William III. The adjacent Kleiststraße leads from Nollendorfplatz to Wittenbergplatz in the west. The extended square was laid out according to the Hobrecht-Plan of 1862, then part of a larger road link from Charlottenburg through Schöneberg to the Berlin distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
