Stage 1: The beginnings
Käthe Kollwitz and the theaters of Berlin around 1900
Max Halbe “Jugend” (Youth)
Gerhart Hauptmann “Die Weber” (The Weavers)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Faust. Part I of the Tragedy” and “Part II of the Tragedy”
Stage 2: Text and performance
“Gretchen”, “Germinal”, and “A Weaver’s Revolt”
Emile Zola “Germinal”
Gerhart Hauptmann “Die Weber” (The Weavers)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Faust. Part I of the Tragedy”
Stage 3: At the Theater
What Käthe Kollwitz watched and listened to on stage
William Shakespeare “Hamlet”
Friedrich Schiller “Die Räuber” (The Robber)
Georg Büchner “Dantons Tod” (Danton’s Death)
Ernst Toller und Ernst Barlach
Stage 4: Staging the masses
Theater in the Arena
Productions by Max Reinhardt at the Schumann Circus and, after its renovation, at the Großes Schauspielhaus: “Oedipus Rex” and “The Oresteia”
Stage 5: Käthe Kollwitz and dance
Grete Wiesenthal modernizes dance, the Ballets Russes perform in Berlin, and Käthe Kollwitz’s nieces dance on European stages.