following the fall of the berlin wall and reunification, the editors elected martin linzer as their new editor-in-chief. practical relevance continued to be the main aim of the magazine, with "theater der zeit" slowly opening itself up to the theatre scene in the old states of the former west germany. nevertheless, a drastic drop in the number of copies printed could not be prevented. even a reduction in personnel, an increase in the cover price, and a new layout could not offset the subsidies that had once been paid by the gdr ministry for culture. with no alternative for the henschelverlag than to stop production, the last magazine appeared in march 1992.