After water damage
Berliner Ensemble is planning its first performances again
View into the empty auditorium of the Berliner Ensemble Theater (BE). photo
© Jens Kalaene/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa
The famous theater where Bertolt Brecht once worked is working on an emergency performance plan after an accident.
“In order to make theater operations possible again, all departments of the theater are working hard to create an emergency performance plan piece by piece. External technology must be rented for the performances,” it continued. “The Tin Drum” is based on the novel of the same name by Günter Grass.
Last Friday, the sprinkler system sprayed 15,000 liters of water onto the stage and the room below for an initially unknown reason. The Berlin ensemble, where playwright and director Bertolt Brecht once worked, assumes that many of the devices were destroyed beyond repair. The damage is estimated at seven figures.
The director of the Berliner Ensemble, Oliver Reese, described every sold-out performance as a “financial catastrophe”.