Großes Schauspielhaus

Outline
Originally a steel-framed market hall built in 1867, it was later converted into a 5,000-seat circus theater. Peltzig rebuilt the theater in Berlin immediately after World War I. He designed an acoustically sensitive dome with numerous stalactite-like ornaments suspended from the ceiling. This innovation, combined with the avant-garde performing arts of Max Reinhardt and others, opened up the history of German theater.
Location
  • Germany
Journal
Shinkenchiku 2025:08
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Category
Ornament and Form
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Evolution of New Forms
Decade
pre 1920
Thema