Staatstheater Stuttgart [Stuttgart]
Staatstheater Stuttgart
Teatro statale di Stoccarda
theatre building
theater in Stuttgart
After a competition in 1908, the Großes Haus and Kleines Haus of the new Königliche Hoftheater were built from 1909-1912 by Max Littmann for the Kingdom of Württemberg . Funded by state and communal subsidies, fire insurance of the old theatre, and the selling of nobility titles to rich sponsors. Ca. 1919 renamed Landestheater. Later renamed Staatstheater. For details and postcards of the respective theatre buildings, see: Großes Haus Kleines Haus (old) Kleines Haus (new) The Kleines Haus was destroyed by bombs in World War II. Its site is today occupied by a new Kleines Haus (built 1959-1962, opened 1962).