Blick über den Schillerplatz auf des Schauspielhaus

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The playhouse listed in 1818-21 according to designs Karl Friedrich Schinkel is the center of the symmetrical facility of the Gendarmenmarkt. In accordance with the task of creating a small theater, a concert and ballroom as well as rehearsal, magazine and adjoining rooms instead of the National Theater burned down in 1817, the architect develops a three-part division of the building: the increased theater in the middle, with iaonic portico and empire Designed gable aligned with the gendarmen market on the left wing of the concert hall and the technical rooms in the right. The sculpture jewelry at the Schauspielhaus is carried out according to models by Christian Daniel Rauch and Christian Friedrich Tieck. On the gablefeld of the pillar porch, the fate of the Niobe is shown as a symbol of the tragedy, above it on the main facade of the winged Eros with symbols of the mourning and comedy. The central building is crowned by a plastic of the Apollon music tension.