Example sentences for: platz

How can you use “platz” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Under the GDR its name was changed to Marx-Engels-Platz, and it became a focus of Communist May Day military parades and rallies.

  • Von Menzel’s Eisenwalzwerk (The Iron Foundry, 1875) is a striking portrayal of industrial labor, and Oskar Kokoschka’s painting, Pariser Platz (1926), recalls the bustle around the Brandenburg Gate during the twenties.

  • Many buildings, including the Friedrichswerdersche Kirche (now home to the Schinkel-Museum, see page 58) and Schinkel’s Altes Museum (Old Museum; see page 76), were carefully restored by East Germany after air-raid bombing of World War II, and several quarters were rebuilt in the Old Berlin style, notably Gendarmenmarkt (formerly Platz der Akademie) and Museumsinsel (see page 76).

  • For the equivalents of Broadway or Shaftesbury Avenue musicals, operettas, and comedies, try the very professional Theater am Kurfürstendamm (Kurfürstendamm 209), the Komödie (Kurfürstendamm 206), the popular Theater des Westens (Kantstraße 12), and the new Stella Musical Theater (Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1).

  • The plays of Berlin’s best-known playwright, Bertolt Brecht, naturally dominate the repertory of the theater he founded, the world-renowned Berliner Ensemble (Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1), although it does expand to other, mostly modern, classics, and promises to further enhance its outstanding reputation under the new artistic director, Claus Peymann.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast