The program includes further productions of the Niederdeutsche Bühne (Low German stage), guest performances, lectures and exhibitions.

Elements such as spiral stairs and thin supports were supposed to add to a sensitive elegance, in opposition to traditional theatre building.

[1] When it opened on 4 February 1956 it was regarded as the first new theatre building in the Bundesrepublik and received international attention.

[2] On the site, the war had left only remnants of former buildings: a municipal hall, music school and a theatre.

Some ruins of the Romberger Hof, the former music school, were integrated in the new structure, also two sycamore trees that had survived were made part of the new courtyard.