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4 unusual facts about Berliner Ensemble


Berliner Ensemble

In that same year, the internationally renowned conductor Alexander Frey was appointed Music Director of the Berliner Ensemble.

After Müller had died in December 1995, the difficult decision about who would manage this highly symbolic cultural institution was now exacerbated by another problem: the theatre building itself was in the process of being bought by a nonprofit foundation in the hands of dramatist Rolf Hochhuth, who seemed to have his own plans for the theatre.

In the time after Brecht's exile, the company first worked at Wolfgang Langhoff's Deutsches Theater and in 1954 moved to the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, built in 1892, that was open for the 1928 premiere of The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper).

Ruth Maleczech

Soon she left for New York, and eventually to Europe, where, at the Berliner Ensemble, she came into contact with the avant-garde.


Franziska Troegner

Starting in 1976, Troegner was part of the theatre company Berliner Ensemble where she played in Brecht plays, e.g. Mother Courage and Her Children, The Threepenny Opera, The Caucasian Chalk Circle.


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