Konzerthaus Berlin
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The Konzerthaus Berlin (once called the Schauspielhaus Berlin) is a concert hall situated in the Gendarmenmarkt square of central Berlin. Since 1994 it has been the seat of the major German orchestra Konzerthausorchester Berlin.
The building's predecessor, the National-Theater, was destroyed by fire in 1817. It had been designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans and inaugurated on January 1, 1802. The hall was redesigned by Karl Friedrich Schinkel between 1818 and 1821, and the new inauguration on June 18, 1821 featured the premier of Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz. Other works that have premiered at the Konzerthaus include Undine by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1816), Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist (1876), and Iphigenie in Delphi by Gerhart Hauptmann (1941).
The interior and exterior designs, including many of the sculptures of composers, are by Christian Friedrich Tieck and Balthasar Jacob Rathgeber.
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