- Schaubühne
The Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz is a famous theatre in the
Wilmersdorf district ofBerlin . It is a conversion of the Kino Universum, designed byErich Mendelsohn in 1926. This was perhaps the first Modernist cinema built in the world, as opposed to the Moorish, Egyptian and baroque styles that predominated. Mendelsohn wrote a short text on his cinema, declaring 'no baroque palaces forBuster Keaton '. The cinema would become very influential onStreamline Moderne cinema design in the 1930s. It is the centrepiece of a wider design by Mendelsohn for the WOGA housing complex.The building's current use as a theatre dates from the late 1970s, and the interiors have been completely changed. Located at almost the middle of the famous
Kurfürstendamm it recently changed its creative director. Today Thomas Ostermeier and Sasha Waltz are responsible for a quiet modern orientation - where tradition still has its place - of thePeter Stein 's former Theatre.References
* Bruno Zevi (1999) "E. Mendelsohn - The Complete Works". Birkhäuser Verlag ISBN 3-7643-5975-7
External links
* [http://www.schaubuehne.de/ Schaubühne Berlin]
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