Drama Theatre [Kaliningrad, RU]
type: Item
label: Kaliningradskiy oblastnoy dramatitsjeskiy teatr @nl
label: Teatro dramático regional de Kaliningrado @es
label: Drama Theatre
description: Theatre building in Kaliningrad, Russia
description: theater in Kaliningrad, Rusland @nl
EUTA building identifier: 1805
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Russia
City: Kaliningrad
GPS: Point(20.4926 54.7197)
Wikidata source: Q1255657
Burnt down date: 1940-01-01T00:00:00Z
opening date: 1960-04-22T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1927-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1940-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
Web: dramteatr39.ru
architect: Oskar Kaufmann
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Carthalia ID: 2173
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built by Wilhelm Kuckuck as Luisentheater. Opened 8 September 1910 with Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. 1923 renamed Komische Oper. 1925 bought by the city of Königsberg. 1927 major exterior and interior rebuilding by Oskar Kaufmann, with only parts the exterior walls remaining. Re-opened 29 Sep 1927 as Neues Schauspielhaus. 750 seats. 1944-1945 destroyed by bombs. Until 1960, rebuilding and addition of a portico by P. Kuckenkov. Re-opened as Kaliningradsky Oblastnoy Dramatichesky Teatr.