A Replica Of Shakespeare’s Globe Theater For Sale On eBay
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It’s official, you can buy anything on the Internet.
I was a bit stunned to see Shakespeare’s Globe Theater for sale on eBay a while back. Not the real Globe Theater in England, but a full-size replica at the famous Babelsberg Studios just outside of Berlin.
The best part? It would’ve only cost you 11.50 Euro to buy it. The down side? It would’ve cost you about 50,000 Euro to have it dismantled and carried away.
You really didn’t think they’d ship it to you in Some Small Town, USA, did you?
Still, would you’ve been interested?
The Babelsberg’s Globe Theater can actually seat 700 people; and is worth an estimated half a million Euro (approx. $716,000 USD). I can just imagine what the neighbors would say if you tried to put this out in your backyard.
It was a gift to the Shakespeare Company Berlin from the German-born director Roland Emmerich (he directed Independence Day with Will Smith) after he made the movie Anonymous.
The studio where this Shakespeare’s Globe sits is pretty historical in its own right; it’s the oldest theater in the world, ready to celebrate its 100th birthday next year.
Did you know that The Blue Angel (the movie that catapulted Marlene Dietrich to stardom) was made here in 1930, and Fritz Lang’s movie Metropolis was also made in the studio’s lot in 1927.
More modern movies have been made at Babelsberg Studios (all under the watchful eye of the Globe), including Valkyrie, The Reader (with Academy Award winner Kate Winslet), The Pianist, Inglorious Basterds, and The Ghost Writer.
Not to mention, the approximately 1000 movies made by Joseph Goebbels between 1933 and 1945. OK, they were propaganda films, but in terms of number of movies that’s still a whole lot being made.
If amazing pieces of cinematic art like the Globe Theater (or the closest you’ll get to the real one) were for sale on eBay, I guess it is true; you can buy anything on the internet.
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6 Responses to “A Replica Of Shakespeare’s Globe Theater For Sale On eBay”
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I’ve seen ghosts for sale on ebay, spells to help you get a job or larger breasts or loose weight. it really IS true, you CAN buy anything on the internet. you know what they say, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” (not sure who ‘they’ are) anyway, i wonder why just 11.50Euros? what an odd price, lol!
Yeah, 11.50 EUR was really odd, though I guess it was just for the sake of having a deal since the cost for dismantlement and transport are what’s heavy.
for $11.50EUR i would buy it and just leave it there, lol, just to say i own it. hahahahaha!
:-D
I read that the head of the Shakespeare troupe in Berlin says he was *forced* to auction off the replica of the Globe Theatre , I don’t know the full story behind the auction though, anyone else?
Not sure either, though it sounds believable (well, what doesn’t…)