Theater landscapes

Between 1933 and 1945, it was instrumentalized by fascism.
When Gustaf Gründgens moved from Düsseldorf to Hamburg in 1955, he ushered in a new era at the Schauspielhaus with his directorship.
His 1957 production of Faust, with Will Quadflieg as Faust and Gründgens himself as Mephisto, became a milestone in German theater history.

From 1972, artistic director Ivan Nagel also attracted a young audience to the theater.
He put contemporary authors on the repertoire and brought directors such as Claus Peymann, Luc Bondy, Jérôme Savary and Peter Zadek to Hamburg.
Zadek's production of Shakespeare's "Othello" with Ullrich Wildgruber as Othello and Eva Mattes as Desdemona caused the biggest Hamburg theater scandal of the post-war period in 1976.
In the mid-1980s, Peter Zadek took over the Hamburg Schauspielhaus for four years.

From 1993, Frank Baumbauer turned the theater into an important stage for contemporary drama.
Numerous world premieres of works by Rainald Goetz, Elfriede Jelinek and Christoph Marthaler were successful with both audiences and critics.
On its 100.
On its 100th birthday in 2000, the theater was voted "Theater of the Year" for the fourth time under Baumbauer's directorship.
In the 2000/01 season, the former artistic director of the EXPO 2000 culture and events program, Tom Stromberg, took over the management of the Schauspielhaus.
Stromberg, whose innovative avant-garde projects at Frankfurt's Theater am Turm (TAT) gave groundbreaking impetus to the European theater scene in the 1990s, stands for experimental and international theater.