Title

Sternheim's Burger Schippel and the Theatre Scene in Cologne

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1995

Comments

Published in WESTERN EUROPEAN STAGES VII No. 1 (1995): 99-102. Copyright © 1995 Center for the Advanced Study of the Theatre Arts, CUNY.

Abstract

Cologne has for centuries been one of the most important cities in Europe; wealth and comfort are nothing new here. Yet unlike other German cities with perhaps an equal amount of prosperity it has never had a theatre history to match its stature as a major metropolitan center on the Continent. It has indeed had a troublesome and complicated relationship with theatre despite the fact that it is the fourth largest city in Germany (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich).