The first mention of German-language actors in Timișoara comes from 1746, and in 1753 the city administration authorizes performances by a touring German theatre troupe between May and October.

Under the supervision of the city judge Ignaz Koppauer, it was eventually converted into a real theatre building by 1795, with an opening ceremony taking place on 22 November.

The "waltz king" Johann Strauss II often made guest appearances in Timișoara, and in 1796 the first performance of the Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart took place here.

Since its foundation, more than 370 productions have been produced, and the theatre has played around 10,000 performances in front of around 2.5 million spectators in almost all German-speaking towns in Romania, as well as in the GDR, and after 1989 in the FRG, in Austria, Poland, Hungary, France, Croatia and Serbia.

The initiative proves to be auspicious, so that starting with 1992, the theater staff is enriched quantitatively and qualitatively, the institution now becoming one of the best performing theatres in the theatrical landscape of Romania.