Heppenheim Festival
The Heppenheim Festival is a theater festival in Heppenheim (Bergstrasse) , district town of the Bergstrasse district in southern Hesse and located on Bergstrasse on the edge of the Odenwald in southern Hesse . The festival has been held every summer from July to September since 1974.
history
The Heppenheim Festival was founded by the actor and director Hans Richter and his wife Ingeborg Bieber (1921–2009). On August 9, 1974, the opening took place with the play Jedermann by Hugo von Hofmannsthal in front of the Catholic parish church of St. Peter (also known as the Bergstrasse cathedral ).
The actual venue for the festival, however, is the Theater im Hof in the historic Kurmainzer Amtshof . It is modeled on the Shakespeare theater. There is space for around 580 spectators at tables for wine and pretzels. Since it was founded, the festival has had well over 1,000,000 visitors.
Since 1992 the festival has been under the direction of Thomas Richter († 2017), son of Hans Richter. From 2012 to 2018 his wife Sabine Richter took on the leading role. Stephan Brömme has been the managing director of Festspiele Heppenheim GmbH since 2018 . Due to the restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the operating company had to file for preliminary bankruptcy in May 2020 .
Productions
- 1974: Everyone / Mirandolina
- 1975: Everyone / The hiding place
- 1976: August, August, August / Helden
- 1977: August, August, August / Der Zerrissene
- 1978: The Taming of the Shrew / The Comedy of Errors
- 1979: Everyone / The Broken Jug
- 1980: Volpone / The Root of Love
- 1981: The great day / Tartuffe
- 1982: He wants to make a joke / The spendthrift
- 1983: Everyone / What you want
- 1984: The beautiful and the rogue / Mirandolina
- 1985: The beautiful and the rogue / Urfaust
- 1986: The School of Women / The Merry Wives of Windsor
- 1987: Servant of two masters / The merry women of Windsor
- 1988: Jedermann / Amphitryon
- 1989: Two gentlemen from Verona / The love fountain
- 1990: The great day / The love fountain
- 1991: The Miser / It started in Pavia
- 1992: The Liar / The Scapin's Tricks
- 1993: Lady Kobold / Much Ado About Nothing
- 1994: The Talisman / Don Gil from the green pants
- 1995: The Venetian Twins / The Imaginary Sick
- 1996: The Auditor / Lumpazivagabundus
- 1997: George Dandin / What came into the house
- 1998: Everyone / The Coffee House
- 1999: The clever fool / The robbery of the Sabine women
- 2000: Cyrano de Bergerac / What you want
- 2001: The Tangled Head / The Broken Jug
- 2002: Volpone / Lost Love Labor
- 2003: All Shakespeare works - slightly shortened / Dramatic works by Loriot
- 2004: The Fathers In Law / As You Like It
- 2005: The Knight of the Miracle / The Miser
- 2006: The German Small Towns / The Taming Of The Shrew / Sonny Boys
- 2007: Tartuffe / The Ladies Tailor
- 2008: Der Hauptmann von Köpenick / Dramatic works by Loriot
- 2009: Her lover's slave / The piggy bank
- 2010: The Liar / Monsieur Chasse
- 2011: Pension Schöller / The Imaginary Sick
- 2012: Die Hose / Ladykillers
- 2013: A Midsummer Night's Dream / The sweetest madness
- 2014: The happy vineyard / Living twice is better
- 2015: Up and away / Amphitryon
- 2016: Oliver Twist / Petterson, Findus and the Rooster
- 2017: Pretty best friends / Pasta e basta
- 2018: Like Heaven / Backbeat