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| Address | Raboisen 67 Hamburg, Germany |
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| Owner | Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg |
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| Opened | 1843 |
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| http://www.thalia-theater.de/ | |
TheThalia Theater is one of the three state-owned theatres inHamburg,Germany. It was founded in 1843 byCharles Maurice Schwartzenberger and named after themuseThalia. Today, it is home to one of Germany's most famous ensembles and stages around 9 new plays per season. Current theatre manager isJoachim Lux, who in 2009/10 succeededUlrich Khuon.
In addition to its main building, located in the streetRaboisen in theAltstadt quarter near theBinnenalster andGerhart-Hauptmann-Platz in Hamburg's inner city, the theatre operates a smaller stage, used for experimental plays, theThalia in der Gaußstraße, located in the borough ofAltona.
In October 1991Ruth Berghaus directedBertolt Brecht'sIn The Jungle of Cities (German:Im Dickicht der Städte) as part of a series of 'related texts', as she called them (which also includedBüchner'sDanton's Death).[1]
Performed by the theatre's ensemble in 2006
In 2022, during theRussian war against Ukraine, the theater drew strong criticism from the Ukrainian community of Germany for showing a play by the Russian playwright Kirill Serebrennikov which glamourizes the genocide, whitewashes Russian war crimes and equates the victims with the criminals.[2]
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