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Great theatrical aesthetic innovations have taken place on its stage, it has been home to entire generations of famous actors and perhaps like no other German stage, this house is a burning mirror of Germany's eventful history over the last century and a half: the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.
The Deutsches Theater was built in 1850 in the middle of Berlin's Latin Quarter, near a railroad factory.
In 1883, Adolph L'Arronge founded a theater stock corporation based on the model of the Comédie Française and bought the stage.
The Deutsches Theater earned its reputation as the "Olympus" of all German theatres under Max Reinhardt at the latest.
The soon-to-be world-famous director ran it from 1905 until shortly before his emigration in 1933, had the modern Kammerspiele built on the neighboring site and gathered famous actors around him: Werner Krauss, Alexander Moissi, Gertrud Eysoldt, Tilla Durieux and Elisabeth Bergner.
Reinhardt's former assistant Heinz Hilpert managed to preserve the theater's independence during the Nazi dictatorship.
After the war, under the directorship of Wolfgang Langhoff, Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel founded their Berlin ensemble at the Deutsches Theater.
In the GDR, the Deutsches Theater was a mirror of its time.
In the 1990s, the Deutsches Theater was twice named German-language "Theater of the Year" by the critics.
Bernd Wilms has managed the theater since 2001.
Esther Schweins introduces the Deutsches Theater, shows that Max Reinhardt was already a shrewd marketing expert, and the artistic directors Thomas Langhoff, Dieter Mann and Bernd Wilms explain the special significance of the theater through the ages.
The actors Ulrich Matthes, Inge Keller and Nina Hoss have their say and numerous archive recordings give an impression of trend-setting productions.
