Wiener Bürgerertheater
The Bürgerertheater was a theater in Vienna's 3rd district, Landstrasse, at Vordere Zollamtsstrasse 13 .
Playhouse
The Vienna Citizens' Theater was built in 1905 at the instigation of the actor and writer Oskar Fronz senior according to plans by the architects Franz von Krauss and Josef Tölk in the 3rd district of Vienna . The wall paintings were by Eduard Veith . The theater had seating for 1144 people. The official opening as a theater took place on December 7, 1905 with the play The Old Lord by Beatrice Dvorsky in the presence of the Mayor of Vienna Karl Lueger . The dress rehearsal on December 6, 1905 was attended by invited guests, among them the actors Katharina Schratt and Adolf von Sonnenthal . Richard Fronz, a brother of the director and student of Anton Bruckner , conducted the Rosamunden Overture by Franz Schubert . The first director was Oskar Fronz until his death in 1925. The Wiener Volksstück 's Katherl by Burgtheater director Max Burckhard was performed in February 1907 with the famous folk actress Hansi Niese and was a great success. The successful play Die Katakomben by Gustav Davis , an author who became important for the repertoire of the town theater, was performed in 1907.
Operetta and Revue
In 1910 the Bürgerertheater was converted into an operetta stage due to its waning success , with Edmund Eysler working as the house composer. Eysler composed the operetta Der immortliche Lump (Libretto by Felix Dörmann ) for the Bürgerertheater . The first performance took place on October 14, 1910. The success was overwhelming, the press comments said that this operetta by Eysler signals a change of genre ( silver operetta era ). The great success contributed to the fact that Eysler remained the resident composer of the Vienna Citizens' Theater.
His latest operetta, Der Frauenfresser , was performed on December 23, 1911 , and it was also a great success. The world premiere of The Laughing Husband followed in March 1913 . This Eysler work was to see performances until 1921. In the years of the First World War, the Bürgerertheater also brought out several Eysler operettas per season as usual, such as Der laughing husband (March 19, 1913), A Day in Paradise (December 23, 1913), Spring on the Rhine (1914) , The - or not! (October 9, 1915) and The Dark Treasure (1918).
Other important premieres of this operetta era were: Oscar Straus : Liebes-Zauber (January 28, 1916), Robert Stolz : The jumping jack (November 9, 1923), Franz Lehár : Clo-Clo (March 6, 1924), Robert Stolz: The Midnight Waltz (1926) and Edmund Eysler: The Land of Love (August 27, 1926). The Italian opera composer Pietro Mascagni himself conducted the world premiere of his operetta Yes , the Story of a Girl from the Folies Bergères on January 24, 1925 . In 1925 Ernst Arnold played in the 400th performance of the operetta idyll on the orders of the Duchess von Bruno Granichstaedten .
The era of revue operettas began in 1926, especially with Karl Farkas and his congenial partner Fritz Grünbaum . During a guest performance of the Ernst Marischka -Ausstattungsrevue Wien laughs again by Ralph Benatzky , which began on October 1, 1927, Farkas and Grünbaum performed a hit revue in 30 pictures with music by Ralph Benatzky, in which no fewer than 120 participants and 900 costumes in Use were. On May 15, 1928, Princess Ti-Ti-Pa was made by Robert Stolz, on December 21, 1931 the operetta Mädel aus Wien by Heinrich Strecker was premiered , and on May 1, 1932, the operetta Der Jolly Joker by the Austrian composer Egon Neumann was performed premiered at the Bürgerertheater. In 1935 the avant-garde "Group Ernst Lönner " performed Johann Nestroy's Der Talisman in its own version as Salome and Feuerfuchs with Marianne Gerzner and Fritz Schrecker . The Exl-stage brought 1,935 Brandner Kaspar looks into paradise by Josef Maria Lutz with Ferdinand Exl and Eduard Köck as Boanlkramer performed.
time of the nationalsocialism
Mostly closed in the first years of World War II , the house was reopened in April 1942. The director was Robert Valberg , formerly head of the Reichstheaterkammer and cultural advisory board of the City of Vienna. When the house was leased to NSDAP member Valberg, the theater was put into private hands. The management phase of Valberg showed a game plan geared towards entertainment and distraction from everyday war life. On April 17, 1942, the opening night of the revue Ringstrasse Melodie by Rudolf Weys and Hanns Schott-Schöbinger took place . Seven composers were responsible for the music, Josef Carl Knaflitsch , Hans Lang , Karl Loubé , Heinz Sandauer , Alexander Steinbrecher , Bruno Uher and Ferry Wunsch, the well-known Boheme quartet played. Gustav Manker designed the 16 revue sets . The author Schott-Schöbinger played the main role, with audience favorites like Hans Olden , Mimi Shorp and Lia Lange playing next to him . Despite negative reviews, the piece enjoyed great popularity; in September 1942 the press reported almost 200 en-suite performances. On July 2, 1943, even came to the premiere of '' Only bold! '' By Johann Nestroy , which was not mentioned during his lifetime Nestroy. The piece had 355 performances in 1943/44.
Pressburger Bahn
From 1914 to 1945 the loop of the Pressburger Bahn , which corresponds to a tram operation and which had its terminus in Vienna , ran around the theater . Due to the war damage to the city line, the railway was no longer run from here at street level to the east after 1945, but instead on existing railway tracks such as the neighboring, low-lying station at Wien Mitte / Landstrasse.
Theater in the Josefstadt
In September 1945 Franz Stoss took over the management and the citizens' theater became a popular branch of the theater in the Josefstadt . Stoss opened its first season on September 13, 1945 with the Parisian folk play "On the sixth floor" by Pitoëff dramaturge Alfred Gehri, with Annie Rosar , OW Fischer and Guido Wieland playing . Shock himself staged, Gustav Manker designed the stage design. During Franz Stoss's time as director, the Bürgerertheater employed two of its own house poets, Martin Costa and Kurt Nachmann , who premiered the Biedermeier poses "The Ghost on the Bastion" by Karl Meisl in the summer of 1946 using authors from the Wiener Vormärz . In 1950 the musical comedy "Das Glücksrezept" by Robert Stolz (with Maria Eis in the leading role) was premiered . The Bürgerertheater experienced one of the last great theatrical successes with the “ Farewell Waltz ”, an operetta by Hubert Marischka and music by Ludwig Schmidseder . Performances of “Wedding Night in Paradise” or “Fireworks” brought prominent actors such as Fritz Imhoff , Heinz Conrads , Waltraud Haas and Harry Fuß to the stage of the Citizens' Theater. In January 1953 Gustav Manker directed Sidney Kingsley's American medical drama "People in White" ( Pulitzer Prize 1934) with Kurt Heintel , Anton Edthofer and Ernst Waldbrunn .
In 1953, the attempt of the new director Harald Röbbeling to give the town theater a new direction under the name Broadway stage and with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ended in a financial fiasco, and the theater business had to cease after only six days. After that, the building was used, among other things, as a studio for the Red-White-Red transmitter of the American occupation forces. A sales exhibition, which was previously located on the Vienna Stock Exchange, also found a temporary home here. (She later moved on to the newly opened AEZ ).
Theater dying and re-use
During the great death of the Viennese theater in 1959–1961, which also affected the Vienna City Theater (Laudongasse) and the Scala , the former Johann Strauss Theater , the Citizens' Theater was demolished in 1960. In its place, the new main institution of the Central Savings Bank of the Municipality of Vienna ( Z ) was built , with a side lane being bridged . Architects were Artur Perotti and Anton Potyka . The for Bank Austria has become Z moved in 1994 out of the building, the media group led by the Viennese daily after several modernizations 2013 The standard and the main office of Austria Advertising , the national tourism marketing organization hosts.
literature
- Dieter Klein , Martin Kupf , Robert Schediwy : Stadtbildverluste Wien - A look back at five decades . Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7754-X
Web links
- Picture and article on the occasion of the opening in 1905
- detailed history of the citizen theater and photography around 1940
- Wiener Bürgerertheater im Lehmann online 1942
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Zentralsparkasse is a modern building . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 31, 1960, p. 7 , column 1 f ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 26 ″ N , 16 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E