In association with German dealer Lightpower and its customers and clients, ETC has seen its products installed in three German venues this summer - Friedrichstadt Palast, Theatre Annaberg and Forum Norderstedt. Germany's principal revue theatre, Friedrichstadt Palast in Berlin has the widest stage in Europe and seats an audience of 2000. The venue's stage lighting, comprising over 600 dimmers and 100 colour changers, is being controlled by an Obsession II DPS system with two consoles and various ETCNet2 nodes. The Theatre Annaberg in eastern Germany was completely refurbished this year. Its exisiting analogue dimming system in separate racks around the building was replaced by central Sensor dimmer racks controlled by an Expression 3 console, monitoring feedback as given by the Sensor Advanced Features dimmer modules. Finally, Forum Norderstedt, a modern convention centre in northern Germany, now has houselights controlled by an ETC Unison architectural processor. This is also acting as backup for the centre's Expression 3 console, which is used for stage lighting.
