Effective period / Period of releases: 1949 - 2005

Members: Hans Lemke, Dietmar Schwalke, Olaf Ott, Maurice André, Gerhard Schröder, Felix Schröder, Wolfgang Meyer (2), André Lardrot, Roger Bourdin, Günther Passin, Rolf-Julius Koch, Winfried Rotzoll, Connie Gantsweg, Leonard Hokanson, Gerhart Hetzel, Kurt Blank, Siegfried Gahlbeck, Koji Toyoda, Egon Melziarek, Frithjof Fest, Herbert Neumann, Georg Donderer, Günter Zorn, Rainer Mehne, Georg Lohmann, Heidrun Ganz, Karl-Bernhard Sebon, Wolfgang Nestle, Radovan Vlatković, Manfred Preis, Johann Nowak, Thomas Turner (4), Rudolf Gleißner, Christoph Wyneken, René Forest, Heinz Ortleb, Manfred Rotzoll, Siegfried Häusler, Jörg Fadle, Agnes Malich, Vladlen Chernomor

For recording years 1946–1956 please use RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
For recording years 1956–1993 please use Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
This orchestra was founded as RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in West-Berlin in 1946. It was affiliated the American broadcasting station RIAS Berlin (Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor / Radio in the American Sector). In 1956 the name was changed to Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. After the German reunion the name changed again to Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in 1993. This was done to prevent mix-ups with the East-Berlin based Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
Principal conductors:
Ferenc Fricsay (1948–1954 and 1959–1963)
Lorin Maazel (1964–1975)
Riccardo Chailly (1982–1989)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (1989–2000)