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of the day at prices accessible to the common worker. The original slogan inscribed on the edifice was "Die Kunst dem Volke" ("The art of the people"). Two of the earlier artistic directors were the innovative
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became director in 1992. During his 25-year tenure, through mid 2017, the theater's ambitious, experimental productions, brought it worldwide recognition as a leading European venue.
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cinema in 1912–1913. It opened on December 30, 1914 and has its origin in an organization known as the "Freie Volksbühne" ("Free People's Theater") founded in 1890 by
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in 2017, who himself resigned in April 2018 after what was considered by many to have been a commercially and artistically weak period for the theater.
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The Volksbühne was built during the years 1913 to 1914 and was designed by
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In 2015 the City of Berlin announced that Castorf would be replaced by
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In Berlin, an Iconic Theater Gets a New Leader. Cue the Protests
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Left-wing activists occupied the theater in September 2017.
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Index

Volksbuehne
Folksbiene


theater
Berlin
Mitte
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
GDR
Oskar Kaufmann
Franz Metzner
Ufa-Pavillon am Nollendorfplatz
Bruno Wille
Wilhelm Bölsche
naturalist
plays
Max Reinhardt
Weimar Republic
Erwin Piscator
World War II
Hans Richter
de
Frank Castorf
Chris Dercon
René Pollesch


"An escalating row over the future of Berlin's most iconic theatre"
The Economist
"Das Kinotheater "Cines" am Nollendorfplatz von Architekt Oskar Kaufmann, Berlin"

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