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The New Theater in Berlin (c. 1825)
in: From Vormärz to Prussian Dominance (1815–1866)

Johann Nepomuk Nestroy (left) in The Evil Spirit of Lumpacivagabundus or the Slovenly Threesome (1834)
in: From Vormärz to Prussian Dominance (1815–1866)

Ernst Dronke on Popular Theater, Bourgeois Theater, and Court Theater in Berlin (1846)
in: From Vormärz to Prussian Dominance (1815–1866)

Still from the Fassbinder Film “Kamikaze 1989” (1982)
in: Two Germanies (1961–1989)

Shakespeare in the Park in Berlin-Schöneberg (August 1, 1945)
in: Occupation and the Emergence of Two States (1945–1961)

Writer and Playwright Wolfgang Borchert (1946)
in: Occupation and the Emergence of Two States (1945–1961)

Cultural Diversions in Postwar Berlin (Summer 1945)
in: Occupation and the Emergence of Two States (1945–1961)

Theodor Fontane on Changing Public Tastes in the Theater (1878–89)
in: Forging an Empire: Bismarckian Germany (1866–1890)

Gerhart Hauptmann, Before Daybreak, First Performed to a Scandalized Audience (October 20, 1889)
in: Forging an Empire: Bismarckian Germany (1866–1890)

Oskar Panizza, The Council of Love (1895)
in: Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890–1918)

Otto Brahm, “The People’s Free Stage” (1890)
in: Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890–1918)

Poster for Ernst von Wolzogen’s “Buntes Theater” (“Überbrettl”) (1901)
in: Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890–1918)

The “Buntes Theater” (“Überbrettl”) on Köpenicker Strasse (1901)
in: Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890–1918)

Poster Advertising a Performance by the Dancer Saharet at the Wintergarten (1902)
in: Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890–1918)

Friedrich Schiller, Die Räuber (1781)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648–1815)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Excerpts from Faust (1808)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648–1815)

August Wilhelm Schlegel, Excerpt from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature (1808)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648–1815)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (1772-1775)
in: The Holy Roman Empire (1648–1815)

Ludwig Thoma, Der erste August [The First of August] (1915)
in: Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890–1918)

German Theaters and Orchestras (2018)
in: A New Germany (1990–2023)

Title Page of the Drama, Peace-Wishing Germany by Johann Rist (1647)
in: From the Reformations to the Thirty Years’ War (1500–1648)

Max Reinhardt (1924)
in: Weimar Germany (1918/19–1933)

Elisabeth Bergner (1920s)
in: Weimar Germany (1918/19–1933)

Bertolt Brecht (right) with Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya (1930)
in: Weimar Germany (1918/19–1933)

László Moholy-Nagy, Book Cover for Erwin Piscator’s Das politische Theater (1929)
in: Weimar Germany (1918/19–1933)