Comedy Dresden

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Logo of the Comödie Dresden
The Comedy in the World Trade Center Dresden
Theater hall of the Comödie Dresden

The Comödie Dresden is a boulevard theater in Dresden . It was opened in 1996 as Komödie Dresden and has around 640 seats in its venue in the World Trade Center Dresden .

history

The theater was founded in 1996 by actor and theater director Jürgen Wölffer as Komödie Dresden . Under the artistic direction of Gerd Schlesselmann, Dr. med. Job. Prätorius is the first piece to have its premiere in the newly opened theater. In 2003 the actor and director Jürgen Mai took over the artistic direction.

After economic difficulties, the bankruptcy of the theater and the termination of the tenancy in the World Trade Center, the management changed in 2011; from the "comedy" the "comedy" Dresden. Since then, the name has been reminiscent of the spelling of Dresden's first Comoedienhaus in 1667.

Christian Kühn has been artistic director since 2012 . The theater was able to increase its number of visitors annually (around 135,000 in 2016/2017, around 140,000 in 2018 and around 160,000 in 2019). The most successful Comedy Dresden productions based on tickets sold include the musical staging of the film Go Trabi Go , the play Das Wirtshaus im Spessart based on the novel of the same name by Wilhelm Hauff, the musical comedy Mit Herz und Promille and the comedy Die Feuerzangenbowle . The average occupancy rate of the theater was around 75 percent in 2019.

repertoire

The theater's repertoire includes tabloids, tales, adaptations of novels and films, musical comedies and musicals. You can see Hugo Egon Balder in the comedy Aufguss (2016) directed by René Heinersdorff , Bürger Lars Dietrich in the plays Machos auf Eis (2011) and (K) ein Guter Tausch (2015), Hard Krüger Jr. in Die Niere (2019) as well as Jeanette Biedermann in Tussipark (2015) and Ingolf Lück in Our Women (2017).

At the Comödie Dresden there are guest performances in cabaret, concerts and readings. Regular guests include comedians like Bernd Stelter and Ingo Appelt as well as the musician Thomas Stelzer .

Other venues

Since 2015 Comödie Dresden has been playing the inner courtyard of the neighboring Hotel Elbflorenz every summer with an open-air event entitled “Comedy Outside”.

With the “Comedy in the Castle”, another summer venue was added in 2019 at the baroque castle Übigau in Dresden. The summer theater opened with the play Das Wirtshaus im Spessart , which was shown there in July and August. The revue The Firebirds Burlesque Show by the Leipzig rock'n'roll band The Firebirds was also shown . A total of 19,000 visitors were counted in summer 2019. Andrew Lippa's musical The Addams Family can be seen in the 2020 season .

Awards

The Comödie Dresden received the German Musical Theater Award for the following:

Web links

Commons : Comödie Dresden  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our house ›Comödie Dresden. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Jürgen Wölffer. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ 20 years Comödie Dresden - Campusradio Dresden. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Komödie Dresden files for bankruptcy. In: saechsische.de. May 4, 2010, accessed February 4, 2020 .
  5. ↑ WTC Manager: "Comedy Dresden remains Comedy Dresden - only better". In: sachsen-fernsehen.de. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Comödie Dresden - season 2016. Accessed on January 22, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Press ›Comödie Dresden. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (German).
  8. ↑ Comödie Dresden - season 2020. Accessed on January 22, 2020 .
  9. ^ Artist ›Comödie Dresden. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (German).
  10. ↑ Schedule ›Comödie Dresden. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (German).
  11. ↑ Press: Summer open air 2018 ›Comödie Dresden. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (German).
  12. ↑ Comödie Dresden - season 2020. Accessed on January 22, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Schedule ›Comödie Dresden. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (German).
  14. ↑ Winner of the German Musical Theater Prize 2019 | German Musical Academy. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (English).

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