Stadttheater Magdeburg

The stage machinery was built by the E. Schwerdtfeger company from Darmstadt, which also worked for Wagner's Bayreuth Festspielhaus.

[1] The program of the first season was mostly conservative, playing Weber's Der Freischütz, Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, and Beethoven' Fidelio, among others, including a total of 19 operas.

The only risk-taking performance was Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's play En fallit, resulting in a financial fiasco.

Adolf Varena staged large productions including works by Wagner, exclusively with the company's own ensemble.

Arno Cabisius continued the theatre's artistic rise, presenting a production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle, and a cycle of Mozart operas, gaining national attention and positive press reviews.

Carl Coßmann met financial difficulties, and the theatre declined, partly due to the newly opened Centraltheater.

Heinrich Hagin succeeded as director, but never dropped his positions at both the Stadttheater in Karlsruhe and the Berlin Kroll Opera House, and stayed only for two years.

The same years, the town of Magdebuurg took over running the theatre, organised as the Städtische Bühnen Magdeburg, including the Viktoria-Theater and the Wilhelm-Theater.

When the town tried to cut its funding, Vogeler who was not ready to lower artistic standards, resigned on 22 January 1930.

Hellmuth Götze [de] was able to achieve a high artistic level in a few months, and also installed a pricing system leading to economic stability.

On the occasion of a performance of Kaiser's play Der Silbersee, Götze was accused by the Nazis of "Bolshevisation".

Fritz Landsittel was a NSDAP party member, who finished the season Götze had planned, but cancelling works by Jewish composer Jacques Offenbach, and forcing Kapellmeister Jean-Siegfried Blumann to leave.

The independent Erich Böhlke was a professional who developed the theatre to one of the most important music centres in Germany.

At the beginning of the Second World War, the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda announced that the Magdeburg theatre was considered to be of state importance, and that the 1939/40 season was to be held.