State Playhouse Dresden [Dresden]
type: Item
label: Schauspielhaus am Zwinger @nl
label: Státní divadlo v Drážďanech @cs
description: Theatre building in Dresden, Germany
description: bouwwerk in Dresden @nl
alternative label: State Playhouse Dresden
EUTA building identifier: 2630
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Germany
GPS: Point(13.7507 51.0614)
Wikidata source: Q870330
opening date: 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
Flanders Arts Institute venue ID: 135184
Web: www.staatsschauspiel-dresden.de
architect: Max Hans Kühne
architect: William Lossow
City: Dresden
Propertylabel: 57
Wikidata instance: Q811979
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Kunstenpunt Wiki Qid: Q190145
Carthalia ID: 1787
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built 1911-1913 as Neues Königliches Schauspielhaus by William Lossow and Max Hans Kühne for the Dresdner Theaterverein. Opened 13 September 1913 with Weber's Jubel-Ouverture, Kleist's Robert Guiskard, and Otto Ludwig's Die Torgauer Heide. Damaged by bombs on 13/14 February 1945. Rebuilt 1946-1948 by Emil Leibold. Re-opened 22 September 1948 with Beethoven's Fidelio as Großes Haus des Staatstheater, home of the Staatstheater's opera and drama ensembles. After the completion of the Semperoper rebuilding in 1985, restored, renamed to Schauspielhaus and subsequently used exlusively for drama performances by the Staatsschauspiel Dresden company. Ca. 1990-1994 interior renovations to the original 1913 plans. 909 seats.