Guest theater in Zurich
The guest theater in Zurich was a fairytale theater for children in Rümlang .
history
The theater was founded in 1977 by Fredy Kunz and Monika Wild and until 2012 brought dialect plays for adults and fairy tale games for children to stages in German-speaking Switzerland and to large houses such as the Zurich Opera House . The first production was the founding year of the theater the tale "Schneewissli and rose red" in the parish hall of the church tree Acher in Zurich Oerlikon .
In the first ten years, three to four pieces were staged each year and up to 150 performances were performed throughout Switzerland. The performances also took place for the sick and the elderly in hospitals and homes, which had to be dispensed with after ten years for cost reasons.
In 1986 Fredy Kunz staged the world premiere of Emil Moser's Aladin and the Magic Lamp at the Zurich Opera House with the Zurich Guest Theater .
In 1991 the theater got its home stage in Rümlang with space for fund, workshop and cloakroom. The stage was 10 meters wide, 6 meters deep, 3.96 meters high and had a front stage and a side stage. The auditorium had 156 seats, the bistro seating had 100 seats.
The theater was subsidized by the Zürcher Kantonalbank as part of a cultural partnership and in 1989 received the annual recognition award of 50,000 Swiss francs from the Foundation for Occidental Ethics and Culture .
Due to the construction of a shopping center , the previous location of the theater had to be vacated and the operators found a successor in Andrew Bond who was willing to continue operations at another location. The business was handed over in 2012. Since then, the theater has been run as a stock corporation under the name MärliMusicalTheater AG at the Wädenswil location .
Discography
- 1982: Em Kaiser sini new clothes
- 1984: De Zauberer von Oz
- 1991: d moon fairy
- 1992: King Thrushbeard
- 1993: De Zauberer von Oz
- 1994: Aladin and the magic lamp
- 1995: Mürsch
... the salt prince ... s blue light
- 2004: De Säulihirt
- 2005: De master thief
- 2006: Waldelina
- 2007: De Chli Muck
- 2009: D Princess Uf De Erbse
- 2010: King Thrushbeard
- 2011: Di Gschiid Puure daughter
Web links
- “End of a cultural fairy tale” in the Zürcher regional newspaper on March 16, 2012, accessed on August 31, 2014
- MärliMuscalTheater
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry about Fredy Kunz on the website of the Swiss Institute for Theater Studies, accessed on August 31, 2014
- ↑ History of the theater on the website of "MärliMusicalTheater AG", accessed on August 31, 2014