Berlin—The Cultural Metropolis of Germany?

Abstract

Everyone will agree: There is no other German city providing a cultural offer comparable to that of Berlin. The numerous museums of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Foundation for Prussian Cultural Heritage) secure Berlin a position among the most outstanding museum-cities of the world. The orchestra of the Berliner Philharmoniker which, under its chief conductor Herbert von Karajan, in 1982, celebrated its centennial anniversary, is one of the best orchestras worldwide. In a review of the opening night of Kalldewey by Botho Strauß at the Schaubühne theater, a critic stated that presently, between New York and Moscow, no other theater could be compared to it. The Opera and the State Theater, now under new direction, again rank among the first of their métier within Germany and even within Europe.

Contribution to the periodical Europa-Archiv, published in number 23/1982. Almost identical to the contribution to the Boston Symposium in April 1983 of which no manuscript exists. English translation by Ursula Michels-Wenz and Gerhard Kirchhoff