There is now a new Wikidata property for Carthalia pages:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5652

It's fun to play around with the possibilities of Wikidata. Here's a world map of theatres on Carthalia:

https://tinyurl.com/ya9x4n6n

It will not be complete before I haven't entered all theatres with postcards in my collection into Wikidata - however, there are already around 1.900 items there that feature the Carthalia ID. Furthermore, not all Wikidata items on theatres have geographical coordinates. I will try to add those, too.

In the last weeks, I worked on the collection of Italian theatres and have put everything Italian online now.

From Abano to Volterra:

http://www.andreas-praefcke.de/carthalia/id/2245

There are surprisingly few postcard collectors' sites that focus on a certain type of building (as opposed to topographical collections or sites on other topics).

Here's one about another type of cultural building: Joachim Hassel's collection of postcards of libraries at

https://bibliothekspostkarten.wordpress.com/

(organized as a wordpress blog, but easily navigated by categories)

Here's the only theatre within a library that I could find in my own collection – the Washington Folger Shakespeare Library:

http://www.andreas-praefcke.de/carthalia/id/1578

After many years of construction, the stunning new Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg will be opened tonight with a gala concert.

Here are some postcards: Hamburg: Elbphilharmonie

Its predecessor, the Laeiszhalle (a. k. a. Musikhalle) will still be used for concerts: Hamburg: Laeiszhalle

My postcard of the Sun Theatre, in Yarraville, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, isn't very old, but it has an interesting history. You can watch it being painted on an iPad by the artist, Greg Ure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNnnNiQKNE

(Cologne, Germany)

Cabaret and variety theatres:
“Willkommen, Bienvenue,Welcome...“ Politische Revue – Kabarett – Varieté in Köln 1928 –1938
http://www.museenkoeln.de/ausstellungen/nsd_0802_kabarett/

-Note: the morons responsible for the Cologne museums have removed this useful resource from the web (not found on 24 July 2018) -

Cinemas:
Köln im Film
http://www.koeln-im-film.de/kinos.html

A comprehensive and richly illustrated site on ancient Greek and Roman theatres (in German only):

http://www.theatrum.de/

There is also a sister site on amphitheatres: http://amphi-theatrum.de/

A comprehensive database of performance history and theatre venues in Australia:

https://www.ausstage.edu.au/

I added links to this database from all my pages on Australian theatres (where applicable).

A 1906 card sent from Regensburg to Santa Monica (California) is perhaps the one postcard in my collection that holds the most incredible wealth of pictorial information. It's the first card on the Regensburg: Stadttheater page.





At first glance the card may seem quite unsuspicious, but since it is mounted on light wood that is almost 5 mm thick , it surely stands out from any stack of postcards. With one Bavarian and no less than six American red stamps the address side it is also quite impressive.

In the middle of the picture side, there is a little leporello that can be taken out. Folded out, it is 176 cm long and contains photographed portraits of 44 members of the ensemble of Theater Regensburg.

This image shows them arranged in groups of six:



For the single portraits, see a new Wikimedia Commons category.

Scanning the card and its leporello also helped to illustrate some Wikidata items and three German Wikipeda articles:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Cortolezis
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Jungk
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_von_Bukovics

Most names of the portraited ladies and gentlemen can be found in the "Neuer Theater-Almanach" of 1906 that is available at the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/stream/deutschesbhnen1906genouoft#page/516/mode/2up

While all ensemble members of 1906 have passed away long ago, the theatre itself is still alive and kicking:

http://www.theater-regensburg.de/

Too many to be listed here, actually.

For a start, have a look at the cards from Albania, Angola, Australia, Barbados, Bosnia, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Montenegro, Oman, Papua New Guinea. Plus, the new opera houses of Oslo (Norway) and Göteborg (Sweden) finally got their pages.

I also added lots of cards from Germany, notably from Heidelberg, Hof, Kassel, Köln, Mainz, München (Gasteig), Münster, Neuburg, Norderney, Putbus, Rathenow, Ravensburg, Rüsselsheim, Schwetzingen, Sindelfingen, Sommerhausen, Stuttgart (Wilhelma), Trossingen, Walsrode, Weingarten, Wolfsburg, Worms, Würzburg.

New additions from the Czech Republic:

• Cheb: Kino Apollo
• Doksy: Kino
• Holice: Kulturní dum
• Horice na Sumave: Passionsspielhaus
• Jiríkov : Kino
• Kromeríz: Dum kultury
• Most: Mestské Divadlo (new)
• Nový Bydzov: Mestské Jirâskovo divadlo
• Nový Jicín: Kino Kveten
• Nýrsko: Lesní divadlo
• Olomouc: Moravské divadlo
• Ostrava: Divadlo Jiriho Myrona
• Pelhrimov: Divadlo L. Lipského
• Praha: Divadlo Kolowrat
• Praha: Palác Kultury
• Praha: Prazské jaro locations
• Prostejov: Národní Dum
• Rýmarov: Divadlo
• Semily: Kino Jitrenka
• Teplice: Kino Capitol
• Ústí nad Orlicí: Roskotovo divadlo
• Veselí nad Moravou: Kulturní dum
• Zdar nad Sázavou: Kino Vysocina
• Zlín: Kino Bata
• Zlín: Mestské divadlo

Additions of new postcards to existing pages:

• Brno: Janáckova Opera
• Brno: Mahenovo Divadlo
• Ceský Krumlov: Zámecké Divadlo
• Cheb: Západoceské Divadlo
• Frantiskovy Lázne: Mestské Divadlo (new)
• Jablonec nad Nisou: Mestské Divadlo
• Karlovy Vary: Metské Divadlo
• Liberec: Divadlo F. X. Saldy
• Loket nad Ohri: Prirodní divadlo
• Mladá Boleslav: Mestské Divadlo
• Opava: Slezské Divadlo
• Ostrava: Divadlo Antonína Dvorák
• Praha: Národní Divadlo
• Praha: Rudolfinum
• Praha: Státní Opera
• Praha: Stavovské Divadlo
• Teplice: Nové Divadlo

Theater in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien /(2013), free online:

http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/6999-4inhalt?frames=yes

Otto von Weddigen's monumental two-volume "Geschichte der Theater Deutschlands" (1904) is available at the Internet Archive:

Vol. 1: http://archive.org/details/geschichtederthe01wedd

Vol. 2: http://archive.org/details/geschichtederth02wedd

Thanks to the University of Toronto for this most welcome scan.

Theatre Finder is supposed to become "a comprehensive, web-based, world-wide guide to theatres over 100 years old"

http://mith.umd.edu/theatrefinder/

See slate.com

"The Stunning Grandeur of the World’s Great Opera Houses"