Stadttheater Königsberg

In 1552, Conquest of Rome by Georg Sabinus was performed in the courtyard, and in 1573 The Fall of Man by the schoolmaster Roll.

Arranged by director Hilferding, the Schönemann company played Dr. Faustus, Molière's Tartuffe and Gottsched's The Dying Cato.

[1] In 1768 Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder wrote the first theatre reviews in Johann Jakob Kanter's Königsberg Scholars and Political Newspapers.

Director Steinberg brought Zacharias Werner's Consecration of Power, Wallenstein and Mary Stuart in 1803, Nathan the Wise in 1804 and The Bride of Messina in 1807.

[1] The foundation stone for the municipal theatre was laid in 1806 by the Minister for East Prussia of the German Empire Friedrich von Schrötter on Paradeplatz (Königsberg)).

On 9 March 1808, director Carl Steinberg opened it in the presence of the court with the opera La clemenza di Tito.

They had to make sure that only students who had been designated by the Albertus pin [de] were allowed to enter the ground floor for 6 Silbergroschen.

Among other things, a hero tenor Wild was a welcome guest at Masovia, and the meeting with Karl Helmerding was a highlight.

Franz Wallner [de], previously director of the German theatre in Poznan, had once taken over it, helped it to gain a good reputation and later even to give it its name.

He liked it there so much that he invited all the young corps brothers to a big cab and coffee table ride to Hufen, which was in front of the fortress belt at that time.

The return of the many carriages that made their way through the city to the theatre, roused with songs, only increased the artist's evening success.In 1879, under the direction of Max Staegemann and conducted by Emil Paur, the German premiere of Bizet's Carmen began, with which it began its global triumph.

Reopened on 27 August 1918 as a pure opera house, in 1924 it was merged with the New Playhouse to form the East Prussian State Theatre.