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Theaterpreis Berlin

German theatre award

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ2416261 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Theaterpreis Berlin is a German theatre award, created in 1988 by the Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung in Berlin. It is awarded annually at the Berliner Theatertreffen to a person in German-language theatre. The prize sum is €20,000.

Editorial summary

“Theaterpreis Berlin” enters the record as german theatre award. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Theaterpreis, Berlin and German can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Theaterpreis, Berlin and German.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Theaterpreis Berlin” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Theaterpreis, Berlin and German provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2416261. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1988.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “Theaterpreis Berlin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.