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The Berlin Komische Oper salon
and the Ernst Schering Foundation

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Almost 200 years ago, the very quarter in which the Komische Oper Berlin now stands was a center of the so-called “literary salons”, and thus one of the most important meeting places of the up-and-coming middle class. Important salonnières such as Rahel Varnhagen and Henriette Herz invited interesting personalities from Society, Art and the Sciences to their homes for an informal exchange of ideas. The atmosphere was relaxed and stimulating ...
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