Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
The Volksbühne—Berlin’s “People’s Theatre”—was built for “Die Kunst dem Volke,” a slogan that captured its founding ambition: art at prices accessible to the common worker. Before the building rose, the Freie Volksbühne was established in 1890 by Bruno Wille and Wilhelm Bölsche, sketching a theatre “of the people” in 1892. The theatre you see here opened on December 30, 1914. Its design was by Oskar Kaufmann, with integrated sculpture by Franz Metzner—both coming from a collaboration that also included the Ufa-Pavillon cinema at Nollendorfplatz in 1912–1913. Early artistic direction shaped its reputation: Max Reinhardt led from 1915 to 1918, and later Erwin Piscator carried out socio-political reform from 1924 to 1927. World War II left the Volksbühne heavily damaged, but it reopened in a rebuilt form from 1950 to 1954 under architect Hans Richter. …
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