Volksbühne

The Volksbühne is a theater located in Berlin’s city center Mitte on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.

The Volksbühne was built during the years 1913 to 1914 and was designed by Oskar Kaufmann, with integrated sculpture by Franz Metzner. It opened on December 30, 1914 and has its origin in an organization known as the “Freie Volksbühne” (“Free People’s Theater”) which sketched out the vision for a theater “of the people” in 1892. The goal of the organization was to promote the naturalist plays of the day at prices accessible to the common worker. The original slogan inscribed on the edifice was “Die Kunst dem Volke” (“Art to the people”). During World War II, the theatre was heavily damaged like much of the rest of Berlin. From 1950 to 1954, it was rebuilt according to the design of architect Hans Richter.

Frank Castorf became director in 1992. In 2015 the City of Berlin announced that Castorf will be replaced by Chris Dercon in 2017. The theater was named the most exciting stage in Germany („aufregendste Bühne Deutschlands“), attracting much press attention and establishing a reputation as one of the most provocative and experimental major theaters in contemporary Germany.

Photo shoot in Volksbühne, Berlin

To celebrate its 10^th anniversary, ZOO Magazine has dedicated itself to its roots. The international magazine for fashion and art just released a Berlin Issue.

For this special issue, co-publisher Bryan Adams photographed Rammstein at the Volksbühne in Berlin, for what can be considered as one of their best photo shoot of the last decade.

More photo’s of this shoot can be seen in the Zoo Magazin gallery of RammsteinWorld.Com

Book release “Spannung, Leistung, Widerstand”

On september 22nd 2006 an evening celebration took place at Volksbühne in Berlin. It was all about the release of a new book called “Spannung, Leistung, Widerstand (Thrill, Performance, Resistance)”, which shows the musical history of the GDR (Democratic German Republic). The work is accompanied by two CDs containing songs from this era. In some of them Paul and Flake are playing (they belonged to the group “Feeling B.”)

Some of the compositions were played during the evening, and Flake participated in 3 songs (as a singer!).