No Komische Oper Berlin without the Schillertheater! Opened in 1907, the Schillertheater was home to the second venue of the Prussian State Theater Berlin from 1921. Walter Felsenstein staged productions here in the 1930s under artistic director Heinrich George. Destroyed by bombs in 1944, the artists of the Schiller Theater continued their work at the Hebbel Theater.
Felsenstein's legendary production of Jacques Offenbach's Parisian Life was created there - the production that brought him the directorship of the former Metropol Theater in Behrenstraße. Here he founded the theater, which is considered the cradle
of modern music theater - the Komische Oper Berlin. The Schillertheater was rebuilt in 1950/51 after the war and has served as the Komische Oper Berlin's venue since the 2023/24 season.