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Cottbus - the city in Lower Lusatia, in the very east of Germany, is known to many for its soccer club, FC Energie Cottbus.
The fact that the city on the edge of the Spreewald is also home to an architecturally extravagant state theater is probably not so well known.
Esther Schweins introduces the theater, which opened in 1908, and its exciting history in the bilingual city, which was shaped by Germans and Sorbs.
The style of the magnificent Cottbus theater, which was built by architect Bernhard Sehring, is the subject of much debate: Art Nouveau, say most.
Eclecticism, say the experts.
Cottbus citizens prevented the building, which had also served as an ammunition depot during the war, from being blown up in 1945.
An extensive six-year reconstruction in the 1980s repaired the damage that had occurred over time.
In the autumn of 1989, the Cottbus Theater became a political stage in the truest sense of the word.
The theater was the meeting and discussion point for the first Monday demonstration on 30.10.1989.
The Cottbus theater has been a state theater since 1992, the only one in the state of Brandenburg.
In the same year, Christoph Schroth took over the directorship and subsequently made a name for himself with his spectacles called "Zonenrandermutigung", a festival with a folk theater tradition.
After eleven years, there is a change this season: the new artistic director is Martin Schüler.
