Jean-Paul Sartre's The Condemned of Altona is set in Hamburg, but premiered in the Parisian theatre, Thtre de la Renaissance, over 100 years after the theatre opened.
The Condemned of Altona (French: Les Sequestres d'Altona) is a play written by Jean-Paul Sartre, known in Great Britain as Loser Wins. The action takes place in Altona, a borough of the German city-state of Hamburg. It was first produced in 1959 at the Theatre de la Renaissance in Paris. The first company to be called Theatre de la Renaissance opened its doors in 1838 under the sponsorship of Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, pere, who wanted to have a location for mounting their historical dramas. 
