Carltheater

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Carltheater around 1850
Carltheater (exterior view)
Carltheater (floor plan of the ground floor)
Carltheater before demolition, 1951

The Carl Theater was opened in 1847 follow-house Leopoldstadt Theater , a Viennese suburban theater in the Prater Street 31 (then Jägerzeile) in the 2nd Viennese district Leopoldstadt .

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After lengthy financial difficulties, the Leopoldstadt Theater was sold to the theater director Carl Carl in 1838 . In parallel to his Theater an der Wien , Carl ran it himself until 1845.

In 1847 the older building was partially demolished and rebuilt according to plans by the architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll , who later built the Vienna Court Opera .

The theater was opened by director Carl on December 10, 1847 under the new name, kk priv. (Ilegierter) Carltheater . The evening began with a festive overture (by the Stuttgart court conductor Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, who was a friend of Carl ). The highlight of the event was the premiere of Burlesque The bad boys at school by Johann Nestroy , with this in the lead role of "Willibald". Two thirds of the income went to the poor .

Many plays by Nestroy and the Alt-Wiener Volkstheater premiered here. From 1854 to 1860 Nestroy acted as both actor and director of the theater. In the years that followed, well-known Viennese stage poets wrote pieces for the Carltheater and continued its reputation as a popular house of Viennese folk plays and Viennese operetta .

From 1908 to 1922 Siegmund Eibenschütz , who was also the owner of the Carltheater, directed the stage and put very successful operettas on the program.

After frequent changes of directors, the theater ran into financial difficulties again. It was permanently closed on May 31, 1929 and was only used for filming in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

In a bomb attack in 1944, the theater's auditorium was almost completely destroyed. Even after the war, the artistically valuable facade, which is under monument protection, still looked surprisingly intact. However, due to the danger of collapse due to the environment, it was demolished in mid-1951, as was the neighboring building on the right, which remained undamaged during the war, and was not rebuilt. Today the Galaxy Tower stands at this point. Until a few years ago, a memorial plaque on Praterstrasse reminded of the traditional theater, but today it is missing.

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  1. ^ Rosner: Fifty Years of the Carl Theater , p. 6.
  2. The future of the Carl Theater. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt (No. 23243/1929), May 31, 1929, p. 8, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  3. VM: Faded game. The Carl Theater is being demolished . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 28, 1951, p. 3 , middle right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ^ Opening of the plays in the Carl Theater. In:  Arbeiter-Zeitung , (No. 265/1928), September 20, 1928, p. 17, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / aze

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 54 ″  N , 16 ° 23 ′ 4 ″  E