A large-format playbill of the West Berlin State Theatres displays the program for three houses: Municipal Opera, Schiller Theatre (Bismarckstraße), and Schlosspark Theatre. Works presented include Othello, The Tales of Hoffmann, Peer Gynt, La Bohème, Faust, and Caesar and Cleopatra for dates from the 27th through at least the 5th of the month. A person in the foreground points with his finger to individual entries on the playbill. The document attests to the vibrant cultural life of West Berlin in 1955 and the deliberate self-designation as ‘West Berlin Theatres’ — an expression of the political and cultural identity of the divided city. In the context of the Cold War, such a rich program schedule served as a visible signal of West Berlin’s cultural aspirations as the ‘showcase of the West’.