State Theatre of Braunschweig

Highpoints in the history of Braunschweig's theatre certainly include the premier of Lessing's "Emilia Galotti" in 1772 and Goethe's "Faust I" in 1829. However the premiers were not held in the present building, but in the original opera house which was located on the Hagen Market (Hagenmarkt). It opened on February 4, 1690 with J. Kusser's "Cleopatra" and was, after Hamburg, the second freely accessible opera house in Germany.

From 1818-1826, the house was managed as a National Theatre in the form of a stock company and then as a Court Theatre. In 1861, the old opera house on the Hagen Market was closed (demolished in 1864) and the new theatre on Steinweg was opened. In 1918 it became the Braunschweigische Landestheater and in 1938 the Braunschweigische Staatstheater (State Theatre of Braunschweig). Architects Carl Wolf and Heinrich Ahlburg used the Baroque style structure and palmette decorations on the parapets to model the building according to the Classicistic structures of the first half of the 19th century. He modeled the fa

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