Bellevue Theater (Copenhagen)
The Bellevue Theater (Danish: Bellevue Teatret ) is a theater in Klampenborg in Gentofte commune , on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen . The Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen designed and built it in the 1930s in the style of functionalism . The theater on the coast of the Øresund Strait opened in 1936.
In the early 1930s, shortly after opening his office at the age of 32, Jacobsen began his first major project, the Bellavista settlement on the beach in Klampenborg. He began with a series of two- and three-story apartment buildings that were built in two L-shaped groups between 1934 and 1935 on the coastal road. To the north of the housing estate, Jacobsen planned a restaurant and the theater complex of the Bellvue Theater. Built from 1935 onwards, the interconnected structures were completed in 1936. A few years later, part of the restaurant was converted into apartments. In order to follow the character of a summer theater, Jacobsen constructed a roof that could be opened mechanically, so that an open-air theater was created. A large mosaic was built inside. The walls of the auditorium were partly lined with canvas and bamboo . Jacobsen then began building the Skovshoved petrol station , which is also on the coast south of the theater.
Three years after opening, the theater ceased operations in 1939 and was used as a cinema until 1979 . Since the takeover by Jes Køplin, both film and theater performances have been staged. The repertoire of the ensemble has been dominated by musicals since the reopening . The summer ballet has been an integral part of the program since 2003 . Around 125,000 visitors use the theater each year.
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- ↑ a b Christopher Woodward: Copenhagen - Buildings of Europe , Manchester University Press ND, 1998, ISBN 0719051932 , p. 88.
- ↑ Gennaro Postiglione: 100: one hundred houses for one hundred European architects of the twentieth century , 2004, ISBN 3822863122 , p. 188.
Coordinates: 55 ° 46 ′ 39 " N , 12 ° 35 ′ 23" E