21 March 2026 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General, Berlin, Opera Houses, Theaters, Libraries
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The Berliner Ensemble is a German theatre company established by actress
Helene Weigel and her husband, playwright
Bertolt Brecht, in January 1949 in
East Berlin. In the time after Brecht’s exile, the company first worked at
Wolfgang Langhoff‘s
Deutsches Theater and in 1954 moved to the
Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, built in 1892, that was open for the 1928 premiere of
The Threepenny Opera (
Die Dreigroschenoper).
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