Theater Magdeburg

The Theater Magdeburg (TM) is a four-division theatre with its own ensembles for music theatre, ballet, concert and drama in Magdeburg. It emerged in 2004 from the merger of the theatre of the state capital and the Freie Kammerspiele. With an opera house and a playhouse, it has two locations in Magdeburg. In 2025 the Theater Magdeburg was named, for the first time, Theatre of the Year in the German-speaking world by Theater heute. The history of the Magdeburg theatre goes back to the National Theatre opened in 1794, succeeded from 1876 by the city theatre, which remained Magdeburg's most important theatre until 1944. The present opera house was opened in 1907 as the Centraltheater. Initially used as a variety theatre, from 1922 it was a pure operetta stage. After destruction in the Second World War, it reopened on 21 December 1950 under the name Maxim Gorki Theatre. After a fire — presumably arson — destroyed much of the stage area on 20 May 1990, it was renovated for 120 million DM and reopened on 4 October 1997 as the theatre of the state capital.