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Schauspielhaus

theater, Zürich, Switzerland
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  • Switzerland
    Switzerland
    / Theater

    …period in Germany (1933–45), Zürich’s Schauspielhaus (German: “Playhouse”) was an important center for theater, where many refugee writers, directors, and actors performed or staged productions. The country’s two most successful postwar dramatists, Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt, staged their debut works at the Schauspielhaus, and contemporary playwrights such as Maja…

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    …period in Germany (1933–45), Zürich’s Schauspielhaus (German: “Playhouse”) was an important center for theater, where many refugee writers, directors, and actors performed or staged productions. The country’s two most successful postwar dramatists, Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt, staged their debut works at the Schauspielhaus, and contemporary playwrights such as Maja…

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