1945, the theater was able to give performances in replacement venues such as the auditorium of the university as the first theater in the British occupation zone again. In addition, a hall in the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Ubierring was expanded to "Kammerspielen" and used until 1994 accordingly. The 1902 theatre ruins were demolished in 1958. New building on the Offenbachplatz The new building opened on 14 October 1956, it opened with a gala performance of Paul Hindemith's opera Mathis der Maler. In 1957, the stages moved from their makeshift venue in the auditorium to a newly built so-called multi-storey building on , where opera and operetta, ballet and drama were performed. In 1962, the new Schauspielhaus, designed by Wilhelm Riphahn, was completed and opened with Schiller's Die Räuber in the staging of the later director Oscar Fritz Schuh with actor Klausjürgen Wussow as Karl Moor. Federal President Heinrich Lübke also attended this performance. In 1968, Hansgünther Heyme became the artistic director and dramaturge of the Schauspielhaus, which caused controversy with his unconventional implementations of plays. He also began a close collaboration with classical philologist Wolfgang Schadewaldt, whose translations of Greek dramas he brought to the stage in Cologne. Heyme was replaced in 1979 by Jürgen Flimm, and then in 1985 by Klaus Pierwoß. In 1989, Pierwoß was the first director, who brought the East German director Frank Castorf with a production of Hamlet to a West German theater. It was followed by the directors Torsten Fischer in 1990, Günter Krämer, Marc Günther and since 2007, Karin Beier. On 11 January 2013, Beier left before her move to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, with her last production of an antique drama, The Trojan Women by Euripides. It was based on the work of Jean-Paul Sartre. Current theatre As part of the opera renovation, the Schauspielhaus was again demolished and rebuilt between 2010 and 2013. Having withdrawn for reasons of cost of the new version so much that they hardly seemed to pay off, urged the citizens' initiative "Courage to culture. Contents in front of the facade "preserved the listed building and carried out a referendum, which was approved in April 2010 by the city council of Cologne. In June 2012, EXPO XXI was put into operation in the Agnesviertel on the Gladbacher Wall as an interim play stage during the renovation work. An information box, which was erected in October 2012, provided information