German Theater Pest
The German Theater Pest , also known as the German Theater on Wollgasse , was a German-language stage in Budapest , the capital of Hungary .
history
As early as the 18th and 19th centuries, there were always stages in Buda and Pest that performed plays and operas in German. The houses of these institutions were on Wollstrasse.
Between 1812 and 1849 the German theater was housed in a three-story building in neoclassical style, which was located on today's Vörösmarty Square . The redoubt, completed in 1832, was in the same block facing the Danube . The building allegedly offered up to 3500 spectators; the stage was 28 meters deep.
It was opened on February 9, 1812 with two pieces by August von Kotzebue ( Hungary's First Benefactor and The Ruins of Athens ), for which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote the music. The troupe who worked there played both musical works (for example by Rossini and Mozart ) and plays (for example by Shakespeare and Schiller ). Burned down on February 2, 1847, the theater reopened on July 10. In the course of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848/1849 the theater was finally closed in 1849.
From 1869 to 1889 there was one last German theater group on Wollstrasse. The opening of this theater took place in December 1869. The house was mainly used for the operetta. The theater's audience saw renowned guest artists from German-speaking countries, including Adolf Sonnenthal , Marie Geistinger , Friedrich Haase , Franz Jauner , Marie Barkany , Charlotte Wolter and Alexander Girardi .
The Pest Theater was directed by: Heinrich Hirsch (1869–1873), Franz Kull (1873), Friedrich Strampfer (1873–1874), Friedrich Feldmann (1874), Albin Swoboda (1874–1878), Moritz Morländer (1878), Josef Blau (1878–1879), Robert Müller (1879–1882), Stanislaus Lesser (1882–1889).
The theater building burned down on December 20, 1889.
Composer at the Deutsches Theater Budapest
- 1812 Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1828 Franz Lachner
- 1833 to 1838 Ferenc Erkel
- 1838 to 1847 Louis Schindelmeisser
- 1868 Carl Millöcker
literature
- Wolfgang Binal : German-language theater in Budapest . Böhlau, Vienna 1972, ISBN 9783205032069 . Table of contents online .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Binal (1972): Deutschsprachiges Theater in Budapest , Part IV (pp. 323-426)
- ↑ www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de: Details on the composition 'Hungary's first benefactor'
- ↑ Ignaz Peisner : The German Theater in Budapest (until 1812) . In: Hungarian Review for Historical and Social Sciences , Volume IV 1915, page 215 ( online (pdf, 970 pages))
- ↑ Details