Thalia Theater (Hamburg)

Thalia Theater

Thalia Theater front view.
Address Alstertor 2
City Hamburg
Country Germany
Owned by Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Opened 1843
http://www.thalia-theater.de/

The Thalia Theater is one of the three state-owned theatres in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded in 1843 by Charles Maurice Schwartzenberger and named after the muse Thalia. Today, it is home to one of Germany's most famous ensembles and stages around 9 new plays per season. Current theatre manager is Ulrich Khuon.

In addition to its main building, located in the street Raboisen in the quarter Hamburg-Alstadt near the Binnenalster in Hamburg's inner city, the theatre operates a smaller stage, used for experimental plays, the Thalia in der Gaußstraße, located in the borough of Altona.

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Plays

In October 1991 Ruth Berghaus directed Bertolt Brecht's In The Jungle of Cities (German: Im Dickicht der Städte) as part of a series of 'related texts', as she called them (which also included Büchner's Danton's Death).[1]

Performed by the ensemble in 2006

Thalia Theater
Thalia in der Gaußstraße

Performed by the theatre's ensemble in 2006

Notes

  1. ^ Meech (1994, 54).

References

  • Meech, Tony. 1994. "Brecht's Early Plays." In Thomson and Sacks (1994, 43–55).
    • Thomson, Peter and Glendyr Sacks, eds. 1994. The Cambridge Companion to Brecht. Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521414466.

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