Hans poelzig theatre in berlin
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Großes Schauspielhaus
Defunct theatre
The Großes Schauspielhaus (Great Theater) was a large opera house in principal Berlin, Frg. Often described as peter out example provision expressionist framework, it was designed beside Hans Poelzig for opera house impresario Feature Reinhardt.
History
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Hans Poelzig (April 30th, - June 14th, ) was a German architect, painter and set designer. He was born in Berlin to the countess Clara Henrietta Maria Poelzig. The countess' husband did not recognize him as his son and he was raised by the family of a choirmaster and organist near Berlin. He studied architecture at the TH Berlin from to
After his military service, he took up a training post with the Prussian Ministry for Public Works in , and he remained from that point on in the civil service until his death. In he completed his second set of civil service examinations and in became a teacher of architectonic drawing and cabinet-making at the Kunst und Kunstgewerbeschule in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland). He was made director of the school in The institution was raised to the status of academy in and came to be considered ground-breaking for its teaching system. In the period Poelzig worked in Dresden as an advisor on urban planning and simultaneously as a professor at the academy.
Berlin Years
Poelzig moved back to Berlin on being awarded the status of master craftsman of the Akademie der Kunste (Academy of Arts) in He became professor of architecture at the TH Berlin in His teaching there focussed main
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Project website
This sub-project is dedicated to the challenge of making theatre heritage visible and finding new virtual forms of mediation that do justice to »theatre« as an immaterial art form in its entirety. For in the many and varied collection sites for theatre history(s), such as private artists&#; estates, theatre houses, city museums, museums of local history or technology, the objects are numerous, but often organised in a decentralised manner and insufficiently connected. The artefacts of »theatrical memory« are often removed from their context and are difficult to access for the public. In addition, the ephemeral nature of the theatre as an »ephemeral art form« and the complexity of the theatre as a »Gesamtkunstwerk« cannot or can only partially be reflected in the collection structures. There is also much more to the immaterial cultural heritage of theatre: the stories and the diversity of its participants, the interplay of artistic and technical forces and the atmosphere in the room.
Under the motto »Sharing Heritage« of the European Cultural Heritage Year, we are asking ourselves here how accessibility to »theatre objects« in archives and museums can be improved through the use of digital tools.
As an exemplary application case, one of the most important