Theater Stuttgart

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The Stuttgart drama theaters consist of the Altes Schauspielhaus and Komödie im Marquardt in Stuttgart and, with 12,000 subscribers and over 200,000 visitors annually, are the theaters with the highest audience numbers in Baden-Württemberg . From 2009 to 2018 Manfred Rolf Langner was director of the theater, who took over as director of the Trier Theater from the 2018/19 season . Axel Preuß , who was previously acting director at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe , has been the new director of the theater since the 2018/2019 season.

Old playhouse

Altes Schauspielhaus, June 2012

The Alte Schauspielhaus is located in an Art Nouveau building on Kleine Königstrasse in the center of Stuttgart, which was built in 1909 by the architects Albert Eitel and Eugen Steigleder .

On November 6, 1909, the old theater was opened on the historic site of a former legation barracks. The characteristic semicircular Art Nouveau facade from then still shapes its exterior today. The Alte Schauspielhaus experienced its heyday under its director Claudius Kraushaar , who, however, was unable to continue operating under the National Socialists because of his Jewish descent. In the 1960s, the legendary ensemble around Elisabeth Flickenschildt , Edith Heerdegen and Erich Ponto could be seen in the Altes Schauspielhaus . When the State Theater's theater moved into the newly opened Little House in 1962, the Old Playhouse was initially left to decay. In 1984 it was reopened after an extensive renovation (including by Roland Ostertag ). Elert Bode , who had directed the comedy at the Marquardt since 1976, took over the management . He gave the old theater its current name and made it famous again.

Since its reopening in the 1980s, the theater has been characterized by a demanding acting program. Classical plays as well as contemporary theater and musical productions are on the program. The Alte Schauspielhaus is played every day from September to July, except on Sundays.

Comedy in the Marquardt

Marquardtbau
Entrance to the Comedy in the Marquardt

The comedy in Marquardt was founded in 1951 by Berthold Sakmann in the Marquardtbau on Stuttgart's Schloßplatz . In the early years many stars of the post-war period appeared, among them Heinz Erhardt , Conny Froboess and Harald Juhnke . In 1976 Elert Bode took over the management of the comedy at the Marquardt and from 1984 ran it together with the Alten Schauspielhaus Stuttgart . When Carl Philip von Maldeghem took over the management of the comedy in the Marquardt and the Altes Schauspielhaus in August 2002, the comedy theater was renovated.

The program covers the entire range of comedic stage entertainment, from tabloids and romantic comedies to Swabian dialect pieces to classical comedy with previous guest appearances by artists such as Walter Schultheiß , Joerg Adae and Monika Hirschle .

Other venues

International Theater

The International Theater was founded in 2007. For the first time, the interest in foreign language performances is met with own, international productions, which are initially held in English and are occasionally supplemented by selected guest performances.

Theater under the roof

In the theater under the roof , one to two-person pieces are presented under the dome of the old theater. In January 2007 the series “Utopia Workshop” started with the stage adaptation of Jules Verne's adventure novel “ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ”. Productions will be presented which can all be summarized under the brackets realization and failure of utopias and visions. There are currently no demonstrations at this venue.

Theater above the clouds

Under the title Theater above the Clouds , the Alte Schauspielhaus has been presenting theater productions since 2006 at a height of 140 meters on the former restaurant floor of the tower basket of the Stuttgart television tower .

From March 28, 2013, the television tower was closed to visitors for fire protection reasons and thus also to the theater above the clouds. The tower has now reopened and the theater has started operations again.

additional offers

management by shakespeare

Under the motto management by shakespeare , seminars are held for managers in personality and communication training.

Youth theater club

Since 2006 there has been a youth theater club at the Alte Schauspielhaus , which gives young people the opportunity to sniff the theater , attend workshops and do theater themselves.

literature

  • Rudolph Bernhard: The old theater. Gem in the heart of Stuttgart. Gerlingen 1984.
  • Norbert Bongartz: The theater. In: Three theaters in Stuttgart. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 11/12. Year 1982/1983, pages 145–153.
  • The Stuttgart theater. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 44, 1910, No. 51 (from June 25, 1910), pages 393–396, table in front of 393. ( Download of issues 44–52 as PDF document)
  • Sigrid Brüggemann, Roland Maier: On the trail of Jewish life - seven forays through Stuttgart. Butterfly Verlag Stuttgart 2019. ISBN 3-89657-144-3 . Pages 171–175 (Altes Schauspielhaus).
  • Gisela Fechner: A Century of Theater History. 100 years old Schauspielhaus Stuttgart. Stuttgart 2009.
  • Albert Glück (editor): State capital Stuttgart, buildings 1970/85. Munich 1984, pages 29-30 (Altes Schauspielhaus).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Venues ( Memento from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Schauspielbühnen in Stuttgart, accessed on April 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ Ingrid Bauz, Sigrid Brüggemann, Roland Maier: “You don't need to come any more!” The suppression of artists of Jewish faith and of Jewish descent from the Stuttgart theater and music scene by the National Socialists. Stuttgart 2008.
  3. ↑ Plays in the Theater above the Clouds ( Memento from April 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Schauspielbühnen in Stuttgart, accessed on April 20, 2017.

Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 47 "  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 42"  E