The Konzerthaus Berlin is a concert hall in Berlin, the home of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin . Situated on the Gendarmenmarkt square in the central Mitte district of the city, it was originally built as a theater . It initially operated from 1818 to 1821 under the name of the Schauspielhaus Berlin , then as the Theater am Gendarmenmarkt and Komödie . It became a concert hall after the Second World War, and its name changed to its present one in 1994.
12-618: The Konzerthausorchester Berlin is the resident orchestra of the Konzerthaus Berlin. The concert hall also hosts Young Euro Classic every summer, an international festival of youth orchestras . The building's predecessor, the National-Theater in the Friedrichstadt suburb, was destroyed by fire in 1817. It had been designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans , and was inaugurated on 1 January 1802. The new hall
24-639: The Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester . During its East German years it was recorded by the state classical recording company Eterna Records . After German reunification in 1989, the orchestra was threatened with dissolution, but subscriber action maintained the ensemble. The orchestra acquired its current name in 2006. (This orchestra is separate from the West-Berlin based Berliner Symphoniker , founded in 1967.) The Konzerthausorchester Berlin currently has, as its sister chamber orchestra,
36-520: The Konzerthaus Kammerorchester . Kurt Sanderling was the longest-serving chief conductor of the orchestra, from 1960 to 1977. Subsequent chief conductors have been Günther Herbig , Claus Peter Flor , Michael Schønwandt (1992–1998), Eliahu Inbal (2001–2006), Lothar Zagrosek , and Iván Fischer . In November 2017, the orchestra announced the appointment of Christoph Eschenbach as its next chief conductor, effective with
48-469: The 2019–2020 season, with an initial contract of 3 years. In July 2021, the orchestra announced the extension of Eschenbach's contract through the 2022–2023 season. He stood down as chief conductor at the close of the 2022–2023 season. Principal guest conductors of the orchestra have included Dmitri Kitayenko . With the 2017–2018 season, Juraj Valčuha became principal guest conductor of the orchestra, following his initial guest-conducting appearance with
60-636: The Gendarmenmarkt a major arena of political events. Notable premieres during this period included Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist in 1876, and The Assumption of Hannele by Gerhart Hauptmann in 1893. After World War I the Schauspielhaus reopened under the name of Preußisches Staatstheater Berlin in October 1919. Under the direction of noted German Expressionist producer and director Leopold Jessner , it soon became one of
72-543: The concert hall of the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester in 1984 with a gala concert. The exterior, including many of the sculptures of composers by Christian Friedrich Tieck and Balthasar Jacob Rathgeber , is a faithful reconstruction of Schinkel's designs, while the interior was adapted in a Neoclassical style meeting the conditions of the altered use. The great hall is equipped with a notable four-manual pipe organ built by Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden in 1984. The organ has four manuals and pedal, 74 stops and 5,811 pipes. In 1994
84-521: The first female conductor to be named chief conductor of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. The current Intendant (managing director) of the orchestra is Sebastian Nordmann. Nordmann is scheduled to stand down from the post in the summer of 2025. In May 2024, the orchestra announced the appointment of Tobias Rempe as its next Intendant , effective in 2025. Eterna Records Too Many Requests If you report this error to
96-635: The leading theaters of the Weimar Republic , a tradition ambivalently continued by his successor Gustaf Gründgens after the Nazi takeover in 1933. Gründgens directed a famous staging of Goethe's Faust and the premiere of Gerhart Hauptmann 's tragedy Iphigenie in Delphi in 1941. Severely damaged by Allied bombing and the Battle of Berlin , the building was rebuilt from 1977 onwards and reopened as
108-401: The orchestra in the 2014–2015 season, and his subsequent return guest-conducting engagement 2 years later. Joana Mallwitz first guest-conducted the orchestra during the 2020–2021 season. In August 2021, the orchestra announced the appointment of Mallwitz as its next chief conductor and artistic director, effective with the 2023–2024 season, with an initial contract of five seasons. Mallwitz is
120-630: The venue was renamed the "Konzerthaus Berlin". As of 2004, the hall's acoustics were considered to be among the five best concert venues in the world for music and/or opera. Konzerthausorchester Berlin The Konzerthausorchester Berlin is a German symphony orchestra based in Berlin . The orchestra is resident at the Konzerthaus Berlin , designed by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The building
132-574: Was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel between 1818 and 1821. The new Königliches Schauspielhaus was inaugurated on 18 June 1821 with the acclaimed premiere of Carl Maria von Weber 's opera Der Freischütz . Other works that have premiered at this theater include Undine by E. T. A. Hoffmann in 1816. During the 1848 Revolution its main auditorium housed the Prussian National Assembly for several weeks in September, with
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#1732781033522144-707: Was destroyed during World War II , and was rebuilt from 1979 to 1984. The orchestra was founded in 1952 as the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester (Berlin Symphony Orchestra) in what was then East Berlin , as a rival ensemble to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra based in West Berlin . The first chief conductor was Hermann Hildebrandt. In 1974, the Berlin Sinfonietta was founded to serve as the sister chamber orchestra of
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