The publication draws on numerous historical sources but also over 60 theater photographs, programs, cast lists, scores and posters to highlight the previously little-known history of the theater housed in what was the territorial arm canteen (and is today the Museum of Photography). The "Neues Theater am Zoo" opened in 1921 and offered a highly varied entertainment program of music theater, straight theater and dance theater. Already in the early 1930s the theater was abandoned as a fallout from the Great Depression. With its quick succession of managers, name changes, great successes but also failures the theater in the territorial army canteen is typical for Berlins theater life in the Golden Twenties.

Text by: Justine Tutmann