Maxim Gorky Theatre
The Maxim Gorki Theatre, formally the Maxim-Gorki-Theater, occupies one of Berlin’s rare surviving stages from the city’s earliest music-hall culture: it is the oldest concert hall building in Berlin. The structure was built for the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, founded in 1791 by Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, and the hall’s classical design was executed by Carl Theodor Ottmer using plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, in the years 1825 to 1827. This room also hosted intellectual and musical milestones. Between 1827 and 1828, Alexander von Humboldt delivered his Cosmos lectures here. On 11 March 1829, the Sing Academy staged the first performance of a revival of J.S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion, directed by Felix Mendelssohn. In summer 1848, the building became the venue for the Prussian National Assembly. After serious Second World War damage, Soviet authorities confiscated the building and used it from 1947 as a theatre house. …
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