Blancheteatern
Blancheteatern (also Blanche-teatern , before 1915 Blanchs teater and at times also Vaudevilleteatern ) was a private theater in Västra Trädgardsgatan in Stockholm .
history
The theater was on Västra Trädgardsgatan in downtown Stockholm. It was founded by the restaurateur Theodor Blanch , who used rooms that bordered the Blanchs Café that he ran. The opening took place on March 31, 1879 with an instructive soiré , for which the German physicist August Böttcher (1825–1900) was won over. He had previously given similar popular science lectures with great success at the Königliches Schauspielhaus in Berlin. After that, the theater was referred to as the Vaudeville Theater until 1882, based on Parisian models . During this time, guest performances by the Danish theater company of August Rasmussen and the Swedish companies of the actors Knut Tivander and August Sandberg were on the program. After financial failures, Theodor Blanch converted the theater into a gallery in 1883, which, as Blanchs konstsalong, exhibited international and Swedish art. The rooms were then used by the Stockholm Art Association from 1889 to 1899. After 1900 the building was home to one of the first movie theaters in Stockholm.
From 1915 the building was used again as a theater and was called the Blancheteatern. The namesake was not Theodor Blanch, who died in 1911, but the Swedish playwright August Theodor Blanche . At first the actor Bror Öbergson ran the house, who performed plays such as The Bear by Anton Chekhov , Don't Leave Me by Gaston Leroux or works by August Theodor Blanche, Leo Fall and John Bauer . After that, actress Hilda Borgström was responsible for game operations for about a year . During their time, the theater played, for example, Unter Vier Augen by Ludwig Fulda , The little relatives by Ludwig Thoma and Nora or A Puppet House by Henrik Ibsen . From 1917 to 1926 Ernst Eklund led the Blancheteatern. Under his direction, classical theater plays were just as much a part of the program as entertainment revues and discussion evenings. Pieces such as Geographie und Liebe by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson , Miss Hobbs by Jerome K. Jerome , Der Friedlose by August Strindberg , Paracelsus by Arthur Schnitzler , The Living Corpse by Leo Tolstoy and Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas were played .
Harry Roeck-Hansen celebrated great success in the theater, who ran the house from 1927 to 1955. The repertoire during his tenure included classics and modern pieces by Swedish and international authors. These included Easter from August Strindberg, The fateful letter from William Somerset Maugham , Tell me the truth from Leslie Howard , Fallen Angels from Noël Coward , What you want from William Shakespeare , Professor Mamlock (drama) from Friedrich Wolf , Les Parents terribles from Jean Cocteau , The Gentle People by Irwin Shaw , Candida by George Bernard Shaw , The Moon went down by John Steinbeck and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde .
In the following period, under the direction of Gösta Bernhard , there were mainly guest performances by other theaters. For example, Blick zurück im Zorn by John Osborne and Die Mausefalle by Agatha Christie were performed . From 1958 to 1961, the Royal Opera used the Blancheteatern as an additional venue. In 1958 the premiere of the opera Tranfjorden by Sven-Erik Bäck took place in the house. Other pieces were The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten , La cambiale di matrimonio by Gioachino Rossini and Le cinesi by Christoph Willibald Gluck . The theater was closed in 1961 and the building was demolished in 1965. In the course of the renovation of Norrmalm , the Sverigehuset was built on the site of the theater until 1969, based on plans by the architect Sven Markelius .
literature
- Per Sundström: Blancheteatern: den lilla ambitiösa scenes vid Västra Trädgårdsgatan: 1879-1961 . Stockholms universitet, Institutions för teater- och filmvetenskap, Stockholm 1995.
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Coordinates: 59 ° 19 ′ 57 ″ N , 18 ° 4 ′ 12 ″ E