Theater im Zentrum, Performance venue in First District, Vienna, Austria.
Theater im Zentrum is a performance venue in Vienna's First District with a hall that seats around 230 people. The space is equipped with technical facilities that support theatrical productions and musical performances.
The hall opened in 1913 as Grand Gala, designed by Eduard Prandl, with an advertised international dance and song programme. During World War I it served as an afternoon home for convalescent soldiers. From April 1920 it took the name Moulin Rouge, and from 1929 Carl Witzmann remodelled it, removing the hall staircase and raising the auditorium by about two metres. It joined Theater der Jugend in 1964 and was renamed TdJ Liliengasse in September 2026.
The name Moulin Rouge, adopted in April 1920, came from a pre-war establishment in the neighbouring building. From 1939 to 1944 the Wiener Werkel played here under Adolf Müller-Reitzner, with about half the ensemble NSDAP members while the pieces were written by left-liberal authors, some covered by other names. Goebbels threatened the director and ensemble with internment in March 1941.
The theater is located at Liliengasse 3 in Vienna's First District and offers wheelchair accessibility. You can reserve seats by phone at +43 1 521 10-230 or simply arrive and see what is being performed.
The hall opened in 1913 as Grand Gala, with Eduard Prandl as architect of the hall. From 1929 Carl Witzmann remodelled it, raising the auditorium by about two metres and moving the entrance from Weihburggasse 9 to Liliengasse 3.
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