Alte Komische Oper Berlin

This central location resulted in a high price for the land even at the time of construction, which in turn made it necessary to erect the building on a relatively small site of 1,370 m², which was actually too cramped for a music theatre.

The auditorium, galleries and foyer were lavishly decorated, the sculptural ornamentation executed by the Berlin Bildhauerwerkstatt für Stuck- und Antragearbeiten Albert Kretzschmar could be classified stylistically between Neobaroque and Jugendstil.

In the external appearance of the theatre, the neo-baroque features came to the fore through the colossal pilasters and the curves (roof, building edges and gable field), while the façades were made of light-coloured Cotta sandstone.

In 1929, the Berlin architect Martin Punitzer undertook a design modernisation reflecting the changing musical tastes, in which the plastic decorations inside the building, which were by then perceived as overloaded and old-fashioned, were removed.

[6] Hanns Bosenius, Paul Heidemann, Martin Hellberg, Erik Ode, Ewald Wenck, Blandine Ebinger, Hilde Gebühr, Ida Perry, Fee von Reichlin, Grethe Weiser