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GRIPS Theatre

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Altonaer Straße, Berlin (OSM)

The GRIPS Theatre was the first emancipatory (in U.S. terms probably “communist”) children’s theatre in post-WWII Berlin. It certainly was a child of its time – Berlin still in its rebuilding stage, governed by Social Democratic Mayors, but still distressed by not only the ghosts of the Third Reich – and offered new perspectives to…