Schauspielhaus Bad Godesberg

[3] Although Bad Godesberg had hardly been destroyed in the Second World War, the provision of housing for refugees and federal employees who had moved there placed a considerable burden on the budget of the town, which had not yet been incorporated into Bonn at the time, in the post-war period.

It was built according to plans by the Düsseldorf[5] architect Ernst Huhn under the direction of the municipal building authority within eight months in 1951/52.

[2] Federal President Theodor Heuss was present and had the building's modern stage and cinema technology explained to him during a tour.

[4] The picture and sound system had been supplied by the Düsseldorf UFA trading company; the other equipment included two Ernemann [de]-X projectors of right-hand design with attached slide equipment, arc lamp rectifiers of 75 amps each and a sound film rack amplifier system of type MX with reserve amplifier.

Thanks to the efforts of the members of the Bundestag Hugo Hauser [de] and Horst Ehmke, the federal subsidy for the maintenance costs was even increased to 70 % in 1980.

[7] In 1986, structural adjustments were made to the building as part of its incorporation into the umbrella organisation Theater Bonn – since then known as Kammerspiele.

In 2014, Lord Mayor Jürgen Nimptsch [de] pleaded for the abandonment of the Bad Godesberg theatre as a municipal venue.

It had to leave the Beueler Halle to make room there for the performances of the Pantheon-Theater, which was not financed by the city and which in turn had to move out of the Bonn-Center [de] to be demolished.