Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg · 1945 — 1948

Repertoire, season by season

Stagings at the Schauspielhaus from its 1945 reopening through the end of Hellmer's Intendanz.

German and Austrian classics beside Shakespeare, Sophocles, Russian comedy and the first postwar German premieres of Giraudoux, O'Neill and Zuckmayer.(DEA = Deutsche Erstaufführung — German premiere.)

1945 — 1946

Opening season, from 6 October 1945 — the Schauspielhaus reopens just months after capitulation, alternating with the British 'Garrison Theater' use of the house.

  • 06 Oct 1945Der Revisor · Nikolai GogolOpening production, 6 Oct 1945
  • 1945–46Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung · William Shakespeare
  • 1945–46Jedermann · Hugo von Hofmannsthal
  • 1945–46JugendfreundeFriends of One's Youth · Ludwig Fulda
  • 1945–46Nathan der Weise · G. E. Lessing
  • 1945–46Iphigenie · J. W. von Goethe
  • 1945–46Das Glas WasserA Glass of Water · Eugène Scribe
  • 1945–46Weh dem, der lügtWoe to Him Who Lies · Franz Grillparzer
  • 1945–46Volpone · Ben Jonson
  • 1945–46Antigone · Sophocles
  • 1945–46Liliom · Ferenc Molnár
  • 1945–46Raub der Sabinerinnen · Franz von Schönthan
  • 1945–46Sodom und Gomorrha · Jean GiraudouxGerman premiere (DEA)
  • 1945–46Der Sturm · William Shakespeare
  • 1945–46Am hellichten Tage · Werner Helwig

1946 — 1947

Hellmer's first full season as Intendant — Büchner and Brecht beside Shakespeare, O'Neill, and a Russian comedy evening.

  • 1946–47Die Sündflut · Ernst Barlach
  • 1946–47Dantons Tod · Georg Büchner
  • 1946–47Die DreigroschenoperThe Threepenny Opera · Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill
  • 1946–47Pinkepunk · Buch
  • 1946–47Undine · Jean Giraudoux
  • 1946–47Zweierlei Maß · William Shakespeare
  • 1946–47Die WeberThe Weavers · Gerhart Hauptmann
  • 1946–47Lumpacivagabundus · Johann Nestroy
  • 1946–47Trauer muß Elektra tragen · Eugene O'NeillGerman premiere (DEA)
  • 1946–47Der Spieler · Nikolai GogolRussian comedy evening
  • 1946–47Er ist an allem schuldHe Is to Blame for Everything · Lev TolstoyRussian comedy evening
  • 1946–47Der Bär / Der Heiratsantrag · Anton TschechowRussian comedy evening

1947 — 1948

Hellmer's final season — capped by the German premiere of Zuckmayer's Des Teufels General.

  • 08 Nov 1947Des Teufels General · Carl ZuckmayerGerman premiere, 8 Nov 1947 — Robert Meyn as General Harras; the celebrated highlight of the Hellmer years