His diary on September 19th reads, “In the morning, Terumaro Kato and Chiyomatsu Ishikawa came to see me, learning of my return to the city. Went to Colosseum together.” Colosseum was located at Muellerstrasse 42 at the time. However, you do not see a single trace of the theatre, and an insipid office building stands on the address at the furthermost end from the street. Although there is a street called Kolosseumstrasse nearby, it only got its name around 1875 after the pub, Kolosseum, which was opened by Franz Kol in 1872, according to the book written by Dollinger. This pub seemed to have had a small stage for entertainment, but it is not clear if this is the theatre that Ogai visited. Since this street intersects Muellerstrasse, there might have been a house number reallocation and this pub may be indeed the very place.
Ogai's diary reads, "It's not worth watching. Simply bizarre." In spite of that, he repeatedly watched it. The Chinese character, "Sho", means an actress and ,"Yu", an actor. It might have been the gays that appealed to Ogai as they were catching attention at that time. The coliseum may have been a musical cafe (cafe conseil) which later turned to a music hall. When we look at old pictures many cafes are found in still attractive buildings. They used to be calm places where people gathered. During the transition period from the end of nineteenth century to the beginning of twentieth century, Munich used to be the center of arts in Germany and novelists, musicians, and intellectuals got together at various cafes in Schwabing area surrounding Englischer Garten (English Garden). Thomas Mann and Lenin were not yet the central figures. Wilhelm II with his bad taste oppressed artists (?), while patronizing court poets and painters. Severe criticism of Nietzsche who opposed to materialistic idea and influence of the festival, Fasching, which brought an opportunity of artistic renaissance to "liberate people from daily routine and provide a new perspective" led to the birth of Brecht. The time was in the preliminary stage which continued to the Elf Scharfrichter (Eleven Hangmen) and, then, opening of cabaret, after going through the antiestablishment movement by the liberal journal, Simplicissimus. Ogai may have got interested, already catching the signs of the time to come.