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Schillertheater Berlin 1955

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The nighttime photograph shows the brightly lit façade of a representative Berlin theater—featuring a large segmental-arch glass window and classicist pilasters—captured from the opposite side of the street. In the foreground, two automobiles from the early 1950s are visible in motion. The building’s illumination sets it dramatically against the dark night sky. In the context of the film footage from Reel 4, this is likely the Schiller Theatre in the Charlottenburg district, which reopened in 1951 as a central cultural institution of West Berlin. The motif exemplifies the cultural reconstruction and West Berlin’s aspiration to be perceived as a vibrant, Western-oriented metropolis—a deliberate counterimage to the divided city.

Resolution 5755 × 4320 px (24,9 MP)
File format TIFF, 16-bit
Year taken 1955
Location Berlin
Collection Historiathek / zb Media
Source archive NARA
Photographer Unbekannt
Rights Historiathek / zb Media GmbH