Jean-Paul Sartre's The Condemned of Altona is set in Hamburg, but premiered in a French theatre over 100 years after the theatre opened.
1959 Theatre de la Renaissance, Paris Home of the von Gerlachs, in the Altona borough of Hamburg, Germany. 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. 
