Comoedienhaus Wilhelmsbad
The Comoedienhaus Wilhelmsbad is a 1781-built Park Theater in today Hanauer district Kesselstadt and part of the building complex of the former health establishment Wilhelmsbad .
history
The theater was built by Hereditary Prince Wilhelm (1743–1821) of Hessen-Kassel , later Landgrave Wilhelm IX. and from 1803 as Wilhelm I, Elector of Hesse .
In January 1781, Wilhelm gave the Hanauische Rentkammer the order to provide 3500 guilders “for the construction of a Comoedien house in Wilhelmsbad”. The builder was senior chamber councilor Franz Ludwig Cancrin (1738–1816), who had already built the Wilhelmsbad spa in the years 1772–1782. The Scheunentheater, known as the Kurtheater, was opened on July 8th, 1781 by the Gotha theater company Neuhaus with the comic opera Tom Jones by François-André Danican Philidor . With the death of his father Friedrich II. Hessen-Kassel (1720–1785) Wilhelm took over the government of the Landgraviate. With the relocation of the residence to Kassel , the Comoedienhaus lay fallow for over 60 years.
In 1847 the Frenchman Isidor Aimé Briquiboul leased the spa complex including the theater and had it restored. In June 1852 a new theater season began, but it only lasted three months. A nine year hiatus followed.
In 1861 Adolph Hommel tried to revive the theater. He founded a comedy and vaudeville society. Three times a week there was play in German in the Comoedienhaus. After the first season, Hommel switched to the Hanau City Theater as director .
After the two world wars, the theater was used by the displaced and evacuated in Wilhelmsbad, who were housed in the buildings of the spa, to store supplies and it was noticeably deteriorating. When the park and the spa - with the exception of the theater - were restored and restored, Lord Mayor Heinrich Fischer succeeded in getting the Hessischer Rundfunk interested in the Comoedienhaus. On behalf of the Hessian state government , the Hessischer Rundfunk and the city of Hanau, the Frankfurt architect Ferdinand Kramer took over the restoration of the theater in 1968. The theater was ceremoniously reopened in October 1969. In the years that followed, the Hessischer Rundfunk organized its “Wilhelmsbader Produktionen”, special radio and television productions in which artists of international standing could be seen.
The Comoedienhaus Wilhelmsbad is also a station on the Germany route of the European Route Historic Theaters .
use
Today, theater , concert , cabaret and children's theater events take place in the Comoedienhaus Wilhelmsbad, which are mainly organized by the Comoedienhaus Wilhelmsbad Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, the city of Hanau and the Volksbühne Hanau e. V. be carried out. In summer, the Comoedienhaus Wilhelmsbad and the Kurpark create the ambience for the “Wilhelmsbader Summer Night”. On July 1, 2013, Lord Mayor Claus Kaminsky signed a contract with Michael Quast for the use of the Comoedienhaus for the Free Volksbühne in 2014 and 2015.
Web links
- Homepage Comoedienhaus Hanau-Wilhelmsbad
- Website of the Volksbühne Hanau e. V.
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (ed.): Parkpromenade 1–9, Staatsbad Wilhelmsbad In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Individual evidence
- ^ Luise Glaser-Lotz: Fliegende Volksbühne comes to Hanau . In: FAZ.NET . July, 1st 2013.
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 54 ″ N , 8 ° 53 ′ 4 ″ E