Waldbühne
The Waldbühne—German for “Woodland Stage”—is an open-air amphitheatre at Olympiapark Berlin, designed by architect Werner March and built between 1934 and 1936. It was created as the Dietrich-Eckart-Freilichtbühne, a Nazi “Thingplatz,” commissioned on the request of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and shaped to imitate ancient Greek theatres. March used a natural ravine and, to signal the ideology of “kinship” between ancient Greece and Germanic culture, the entrance is flanked by reliefs by Adolf Wamper representing the “Fatherland” and “artistic celebration.” On 2 August 1936, the day after the 1936 Summer Olympics officially opened, the Waldbühne premiered Eberhard Wolfgang Möller’s *Frankenburger Würfelspiel* to a crowd of 20,000; 1,200 extras came from the Reich Labour Service. …
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