Visitor ring Dr. Otto box
The Dr. Otto box is one of Otto box established club , who has taken on the task of providing theater tickets and organize appropriate offers. Visitors who live in the vicinity of a theater are driven to the events in buses organized by the association or the schools in the area are provided with appropriate school-friendly offers. The visitors are looked after and supplied with current programs of the respective season (theater) .
The main association acts as the umbrella organization for the associated visitor rings. The locations in 15 German cities are administered and managed independently. In 2012, 76 people were employed nationwide. The profits flow into the Dr. Otto Kasten Foundation . The head office is in Wiesbaden .
In the years of its existence, the association has provided over 25 million visitors with tickets, and in the last ten years alone has brought seven million people to the affiliated theaters.
history
The association was founded in 1949 as the Lübeck visitor ring. In 1962 the association visitor ring Dr. Otto Kasten , in which all previously existing visitor rings were taken over. At the same time, Dr. Otto Kasten Foundation launched. In 1968 Otto Kasten received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class, for his services . He died in 1989, he was succeeded by his nephew Peter Kasten, who was the executive chairman of the visitors' ring until his death on November 18, 2010.
On February 4, 1999, the visitor ring celebrated its 50th anniversary with the opera Lucia di Lammermoor in the Lübeck Theater , in which the work of the visitor ring began in January 1949.
On May 2, 2012, the main association applied to the Wiesbaden insolvency court to open insolvency proceedings against its assets due to impending insolvency. The bankruptcy proceedings were opened on June 30, 2012.
Locations
The visitor ring was located at the following locations:
- Augsburg (since 1953)
- Braunschweig (since 1999)
- Bremen (since 1998)
- Bremerhaven (since 1992)
- Dessau (since 1998)
- Dortmund (since 1966)
- Frankfurt am Main (since 1950)
- Fürth (since 1951)
- Heidelberg (since 2011)
- Kassel (since 1951)
- Cologne (since 1950)
- Leipzig (since 1991)
- Lübeck (since 1949)
- Mannheim (since 2005)
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Nuremberg (since 1951)
- Founded in 1951 as the Franconian visitor ring: the throughput of tickets for the State Theater Nuremberg alone was up to 30,000 tickets per year. In addition, the visitor ring worked together with the Siemens theater ring, which purchased around 2000 tickets per year from the visitor ring for its employees. In addition, tickets for the Nürnberger Schauspiel, the ballet and the opera, the Nürnberg Symphoniker , the Gostner Hoftheater , the Comödie Fürth , Nürnberg Musik and others were arranged.
- Wiesbaden (1949 - June 29, 2012)
supporting documents
- ↑ a b http://www.wiesbadener-tagblatt.de/region/kultur/lokale-kultur/11974062.htm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.wiesbadener-tagblatt.de/region/wiesbaden/mektiven/9682768.htm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. For registered readers only
- ↑ http://www.insolvenz-ratgeber.de/besucherring-dr-otto-kasten-in-der-insolvenz/2012/05/04/ message at insolvenz-ratgeber.de
- ↑ http://www.insolvenz-portal.de/Insolvenzverfahren/besucherring-dr--otto-kasten/1631835
- ↑ http://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/region/kultur/theater/12106334.htm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
