Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
White, wave-like modernist playhouse of stacked curves, restored after a long fight over its future.
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This guide to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf starts on a January night in nineteen seventy, when Bernhard Pfau's white, curving theatre was finally ready to open its doors. It follows the money, the guest list and the play chosen for the occasion, and later reaches into the decades when the building's future was openly in doubt. Best heard standing on the square, with the dark glass tower beside it in view.
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