German Theater of Munich
In the German Theatre of Munich—Deutsches Theater München—something remarkable happened for nearly half a century: a house built for popular entertainment became a stage for politics, stars, and mass culture at a city scale. It opened in September 1896 on Schwanthalerstraße, designed in a neo-baroque style associated with a “fairy palace,” with Karl Stöhr among those responsible. The main auditorium held 1,679 seats, alongside a smaller “Silver Hall.” The theatre’s programming leaned toward musicals and operettas, but its history also ran through the upheavals of the Munich Soviet Republic, when workers’ and soldiers’ councils met there in 1918. Under Hans Gruß from 1918, performers ranged from Karl Valentin to Josephine Baker, whose appearance was later banned in 1929. …
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