![Schauspielhaus Zurich programme for the 1934/35 season.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titel-schauspielhaus-300x225.jpg)
The theatre that stood up to fascism
Just a few months after Adolf Hitler came to power, Schauspielhaus Zurich theatre began to evolve into a bastion against racial fanaticism and antisemitism.
![Leopold Lindtberg was also a film director. Landammann Stauffacher from 1941 was one of his films.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/leopold-lindtberg-300x300.jpg)
![Therese Giehse in front of the Chesa Salis in Segl, 1936. She was taken in by Annemarie Schwarzenbach.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/therese-giehse-300x300.jpg)
![Schauspielhaus Zurich became very successful under the influence of its German staff during the 1930s.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/schauspielhaus-300x210.jpg)
![NZZ article from 10 November 1934.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/nzz-artikel-300x237.jpg)
![Rolf Henne, leader of the National Front from 1934 to 1938.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/Henne-284x300.jpg)
![Professor Mannheim, production still with Wolfgang Langhoff, November 1934.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/professor-mannheim-216x300.jpg)
![Programme flyer for the 1934/35 season.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/flyer-schauspielhaus-213x300.jpg)
Close-up. Making Swiss film history
Praesens-Film AG celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2024. Switzerland’s oldest surviving film company has an eventful past that has taken it all the way to Hollywood. The exhibition shines a spotlight on the people who wrote Swiss film history in front of and behind the camera and shows the extent to which the silver screen has always reflected the zeitgeist.