Proletarian Theatre, Stage of the Revolutionary Workers of Greater Berlin

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The Proletarian Theatre, Stage of the Revolutionary Workers of Greater Berlin was a radical theatre project which was set up in Berlin in October 1920 during the revolutionary period following the November Revolution. It was founded by Hermann Schüller and Erwin Piscator.[1] It was a membership organization with around 5,000 to 6,000 workers as members before it was banned in April 1921. The theatre staged over 50 performances.[2]

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  1. ^ Braun, Edward (1986). The Director & The Stage: From Naturalism to Grotowski. London: A & C Black. ISBN 978-1-4081-4924-9.
  2. ^ Śliwińska, Katarzyna (2000). "Theorien und Organisation proletarisch-revolutionärer Literatur in der Weimarer Republik 1919-1923". Orbis Linguarum. 15. Archived from the original on 2007-08-12.


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