German Theater Museum

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The museum entrance in the Hofgartenarkaden in March 2007

The Deutsches Theatermuseum is a theater history museum in Munich that focuses on German-speaking theater . It is in the 1780 / 1781 by Charles Albert of Lespilliez built Chur Princely gallery in the gallery street 4a at Hofgarten housed. The director of the museum is currently (2020) the theater, art and literary scholar Claudia Blank, who also heads the photo collection.

History and collection

The museum was founded on June 24, 1910 in the house of the royal Bavarian court actress Clara Ziegler . From 1932 the Odyssey Halls in the Munich Residenz were used as exhibition space. In September 1979 the Clara Ziegler Foundation was elevated to a German Theater Museum with the rank of a state museum.

The theater museum does not have a permanent exhibition. In thematic special exhibitions z. B. stage sets, theater plans, props, costumes and masks, but also audiovisual documents are exhibited. The museum also houses the world's largest collection of theater photographs as well as an extensive archive and library with around 100,000 writings.

In 2019, the German Theater Museum took over the work of Jürgen Rose . It comprises more than 3,600 graphic sheets with drawings and costume sketches as well as 111 stage set models.

building

Hofgarten arcades on the building of the Deutsches Theatermuseum (2007)

With the opening of the court garden under Elector Karl Theodor , the population also had access to the electoral picture gallery , today's Alte Pinakothek . The early classical building designed Lespilliez as an empty commercial buildings. The structure is very narrow, but about 175 meters long. It covers almost the entire north side of the Hofgarten and extends from the bazaar building on Odeonsplatz to almost the court garden arcades from the Renaissance period at the State Chancellery. The facades show only a few of the original illusionistic architectural paintings. Inside there were seven gallery halls with adjoining rooms, and the light came through the high windows on both sides of the building. On the courtyard garden side is the arcade corridor on the ground floor, which encompasses the entire length of the building.

Special exhibitions

  • 2016: THEATER.BAU.EFFEKTE! The architect Max Littmann and Munich during the time of the Prince Regent
  • 2016: The History of Europe - told by its theaters (an EU exhibition project from 2015 to 2017 in Warsaw, Copenhagen, Vienna, Munich, Ljubljana and London)
  • 2017: Behind the Words - The actress Gisela Stein (curated by Birgit Pargner)
  • 2018: Faust Worlds. Goethe's drama on stage (curated by Claudia Blank and Katharina Keim)
  • 2019: "I don't think anything, I'm just saying it." Ödön von Horváth and the Theater (an exhibition of the Theater Museum Vienna )

literature

  • German Theater Museum. Discover what's behind it! Munich, edition text + kritik in Richard Boorberg Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86916-073-3 .

Web links

Commons : Deutsches Theatermuseum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Memmel: The Odysseezyklus by Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler for the Munich Residence (PDF 22.5 MB), Munich 2008, pp 90-93.
  2. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Theater Museum acquires Rose's work. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Simon Strauss: Faust exhibition: The shame of the magician before reality . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 10, 2020]).
  4. ↑ WELT: German Theater Museum shows a show about Ödön von Horváth . May 23, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed January 10, 2020]).


Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 37 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 49 ″  E