Komödienhaus [Biberach]
type: Item
description: Theatre building in Biberach, Germany
alternative label: Komödienhaus
EUTA building identifier: 5054
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Germany
City: Biberach
Wikidata source: Q61715402
GPS: Point(9.791 48.0975)
Web: saal
opening date: 1656-01-01T00:00:00Z
Wikidata instance: Q385557
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Carthalia ID: 3518
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built as municipal slaughterhouse (Schlachtmetzig). Used as a theatre from 1656 until 1858 (named Komödienhaus), and again since the late 20th century. Site of the first recroded Shakespeare performance in German language in September 1761, when Christoph Martin Wieland directed a performance of Der Sturm (The Tempest).