Carltheater
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.
World premieres
- The bad boys at school , burlesque in one act by Johann Nestroy, December 10, 1847
- Freedom in Krähwinkel , farce with singing by Johann Nestroy, on July 1, 1848
- Judith and Holofernes , travesty with singing by Johann Nestroy, on March 13, 1849
- Tannhäuser , opera persiflage by Johann Nestroy, music by Carl Binder , on October 31, 1857
- The Corps of Vengeance , operetta by Franz von Suppè , on March 5, 1864
- Dinorah or Die Turnerfahrt nach Hütteldorf , opera parody by Franz von Suppè, on May 4, 1865
- Light cavalry or The Daughters of Puszta , operetta by Franz von Suppè, on March 21, 1866
- Freigeister , operetta by Franz von Suppè, October 23, 1866
- Bandit pranks , operetta by Franz von Suppè, on April 27, 1867
- Frau Meisterin , operetta by Franz von Suppè, on January 20, 1868
- Tantalusqualen , operetta by Franz von Suppè, October 3, 1868
- Isabella , operetta by Franz von Suppè, November 5, 1869
- Lohengelb, or Die Jungfrau von Dragant (Tragant) , operetta by Franz von Suppè, on November 30, 1870
- Can (n) ebas , operetta by Franz von Suppè, on November 2, 1872
- Fatinitza , operetta by Franz von Suppè, January 5, 1876
- Prince Methuselah , comic operetta by Johann Strauss (son) , January 3, 1877
- The devil on earth , operetta by Franz von Suppè, January 5, 1878
- Boccaccio , operetta by Franz von Suppè, February 1, 1879
- Donna Juanita , operetta by Franz von Suppè, on February 21, 1880
- The Carbonari , operetta by Carl Zeller , on November 27, 1880
- Viennese children , comic operetta by Carl Michael Ziehrer , on February 19, 1881
- Der Gascogner , operetta by Franz von Suppè, on March 22, 1881
- Das Herzblätchen , operetta by Franz von Suppè, on February 4, 1882
- Der Vagabund , operetta by Carl Zeller, October 30, 1886
- The Hunt for Happiness , operetta by Franz von Suppè, October 27, 1888
- A German master , operetta by Carl Michael Ziehrer, on November 30, 1888
- The model , operetta by Franz von Suppè, October 4, 1895
- Wiener Blut , operetta by Johann Strauss (son), on October 25, 1899
- The three wishes , operetta by Carl Michael Ziehrer, on March 9, 1901
- The sweet girl , operetta by Heinrich Reinhardt , on October 25, 1901
- Der Rastelbinder , operetta by Franz Lehár , on December 20, 1902
- The husband of the gods , operetta by Franz Lehár, on January 20, 1904
- The funny Nibelungs , burlesque operetta by Oscar Straus , on November 12, 1904
- The Estimator , operetta by Carl Michael Ziehrer, December 10, 1904
- War in Peace , operetta by Heinrich Reinhardt, January 24, 1906
- A waltz dream , operetta by Oscar Straus, March 2, 1907
- The Divorced Woman , operetta by Leo Fall, December 23, 1908
- Gypsy love , operetta by Franz Lehár, on January 8, 1910
- Alt-Wien , operetta by Joseph Lanner , on December 23, 1911
- Majesty Mimi , operetta by Bruno Granichstaedten , on February 11, 1911
- Big city fairy tale , operetta by Richard Fall , January 10, 1920
- Prince Casimir , operetta by Carl Michael Ziehrer, on September 13, 1913
- Polenblut , operetta by Oskar Nedbal , October 25, 1913
- The first woman , operetta by Heinrich Reinhardt, on October 22, 1915
- Glück bei Frauen , operetta by Bruno Granichstaedten , on December 4, 1923
- Princess Ti-Ti-Pa , operetta by Robert Stolz , 1928
- Lenin , revolutionary tragedy by Ernst Fischer , on September 26, 1928
literature
- Leopold Rosner : Fifty years of the Carl Theater. 1847-1897. A look back . Schworella & Heick, Vienna 1897. Full text online .
- Franz Hadamowsky : The theater in the Leopoldstadt from 1781 to 1860 . Höfel, Vienna 1934.
- Birgit Peter: Nestroytheater at the Nestroytheater - The Singspiel Johann Nestroy at the Vienna Carltheater. In: Julia Danielczyk (Ed.): Nestroy - neither laurel tree nor begging stick . Austrian Theatermuseum, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-9501379-0-4 , pp. 69–80.
- Andrea Harrandt: Carltheater. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
- Nora Kirchschlager: The Carltheater from 1860 to 1872. Volume 1: The directorates Brauer, Lehmann, Treumann and Ascher. Volume 2: Schedule . Rough Dipl.-Arb. Vienna 2002.
- Dieter Klein , Martin Kupf , Robert Schediwy : Stadtbildverluste Wien - A look back at five decades . LIT, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7754-X .
- W. Edgar Yates (Ed. With Birgit Pargner): Letters from theater director Carl Carl and his wife Margarethe Carl to Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer , (2004)
- Attila Oliver Láng : Carl Binder and his work at the Vienna Carl-Theater , Diss. University of Vienna (2017)
Web links
- Carltheater in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Entry on Carltheater in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- The Carl Theater on postcards
- Carl Theater (watercolor) Villingen-Schwenningen
Individual evidence
- ^ Rosner: Fifty Years of the Carl Theater , p. 6.
- ↑ The future of the Carl Theater. In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt (No. 23243/1929), May 31, 1929, p. 8, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ).
- ↑ 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).
- ^ Opening of the plays in the Carl Theater. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung , (No. 265/1928), September 20, 1928, p. 17, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ).
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 54 ″ N , 16 ° 23 ′ 4 ″ E