Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau
| Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau | |
|---|---|
| Own venues | Görlitz Theater, Zittau Theater, Apollo Görlitz |
| Frequent venues | Jonsdorf forest stage, Zittau monastery courtyard, Görlitz town hall garden |
| General director / artistic director |
Klaus Arauner |
| Commercial Director | Caspar Sawade |
| Acting director | Dorotty Szalma |
| Head of dance company | Dan Pelleg, Marko E. Weigert |
| General Music Director | Andrea Sanguineti |
The Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau (GHT) is a four-part theater at the two production sites in Görlitz and Zittau in the East Saxon district of Görlitz . The four branches are music theater , drama , dance and concert . The joint theater company Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau GmbH has existed since the merger of the Theaters Görlitz and Zittau at the beginning of 2011. The theater is named after Gerhart Hauptmann , a Nobel laureate in literature from Lower Silesia . General manager and artistic director of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater is Klaus Arauner, commercial director Caspar Sawade.
history
House Goerlitz
After the foundation stone was laid in 1850, the theater building in Görlitz was inaugurated in 1851. It was built according to plans by the builders Gustav Kießler and Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Fischer. In 1911, the entrance hall and the balcony above it were added on the north side. In 1923, the city of Görlitz took over management of the theater, which had previously been leased to various drama companies. In the following years up to the Second World War , the originally very strong bourgeois roots and thus the identity-creating power of the theater came to a virtual standstill. In 1946 Görlitz saw the first ever reopening of a German theater after the war. In that year, the Görlitz city council also decided to rename the theater to Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater.
In the period up to 2002, the theater was renovated and reconstructed in two extensive construction phases, with the auditorium restored to the version from 1873.
House Zittau
In Zittau, the first theater building was opened on October 25, 1802 on the Neustadt. However, the first owner of the theater filed for bankruptcy in 1820. Afterwards, some citizens bought the house until it was finally sold to the Zittau City Council in 1853. In 1930/31 the city council had repeatedly dealt with the continued existence of the theater and did not believe that it would be able to continue paying the annual subsidy of 100,000 marks. Finally it was decided to lease the theater, and the new theater director in 1931 was the artist Friedrich Wilhelm Nadolle. In 1932, however, the theater building burned down, so that from then on it had to be operated in an interim theater. The replacement building on the Theaterring, based on designs by Hermann Alker and Alfred Hopp, opened on September 27, 1936 as a Grenzlandtheater with Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz .
After the war it was renamed the Zittau City Theater . From 1963 to 1988 the house was the seat of the acting department of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater. Between 2009 and 2010, among other things, the stage and foyer were renewed and the electrical system was modernized. According to the information, around seven million euros were invested in this. The focus of the construction work was the installation of a second venue in the foyer including a gallery , the implementation of fire protection measures, the renovation of the stage technology and the outer skin of the building.
Merger - unbundling - renewed merger
In 1963 the Görlitzer and Zittau theaters were merged into the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau as part of a restructuring in the area of theaters and orchestras.
As a result of a separation at the beginning of the 1988/1989 season, two independent venues were created again. The following years were marked by efforts to further develop the structure and concept.
At the beginning of 2011, the two houses were finally merged again to form the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau.
Musical theater
The main house of the music theater ensemble is the Görlitz Theater. Operas, operettas and musicals are produced. In addition to repertoire works, new productions and modern commissioned works are on the program every year. The offer is complemented by a varied program - from puppet theater and youth theater to film, cabaret to small drama and music theater productions - in the small Apollo theater as well as numerous guest performances by renowned artists. Since 1995 the international street theater festival ViaThea has taken place annually on the first weekend in August, and since 2015 always on the first weekend in July. In addition, there are summer theater pieces such as in the 2011/2012 season Im Weisse Rössl in the Landskron- Kulturbrauerei and 2014/2015 The Game of Love and Chance in the Nikolaifriedhof .
Ensemble of musical theater
- Patricia Bänsch
- Stefan Bley
- Thembi Nkosi
- Yvonne Reich
- Anna Gössi
- Ji-Su Park
- Hans-Peter Struppe
- Alison Scherzer
- Michael Berner
play
The acting division is based at the Theater Zittau. The acting division and its permanent ensemble are headed by acting director Dorotty Szalma. Drama offers the whole range of classics, comedies and experimental pieces through to children's and youth theater. In addition to the venue in the theater, a production is shown in the Zittau monastery courtyard and on the Jonsdorf forest stage as an open-air theater.
Another special feature are the mobile productions that can be booked for performances at schools, social or cultural institutions. The trinational theater initiative JO-Ś brings theaters from Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic to the stage with the “3LänderSpiel”.
Ensemble of the acting division
- Sabine Krug
- David Thomas Pawlak
- Renate Schneider
- Paul Nörpel
- Martha Pohla
- Fabian Quast
- Patricia Hachtel
- Marc Schützenhofer
- Maria Weber
- Tilo Werner
dance
The "Dance Company of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau | wee dance company “is under the direction of the two choreographers Dan Pelleg and Marko E. Weigert. In addition to in-house premieres for Görlitz and new choreographies for the house's music theater productions, productions from the repertoire of the “wee dance company” will also be shown in Görlitz.
Dance company
- In the evening
- Rafail Boumpoucheropoulos
- Harrison Claxton
- Nora Hageneier
- Mommy Kawabata
- MengTing Liu
- Alexandre May
- Francisco Martínez García
- Nami Miwa
- Marianne Reynaudi
- Lorenzo Rispolano
- Amit Bard (Preisman) (rehearsal director, choreographic assistant)
- Naomi Gibson (rehearsal director, choreographic assistant)
- Moritz Bard (musical composition & collaboration)
- Dan Pelleg (chief choreographer)
- Marko E. Weigert (director of the dance company)
- Ewa Zacharczyk-Kowal (dance repetiteur)
- Ilka Bothe (assistant to the dance director)
New Lusatian Philharmonic
The New Lusatian Philharmonic Orchestra (NLP) is the orchestra of the Upper Lusatia / Lower Silesia cultural area. With her 56 musicians she plays regularly in Bautzen, Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Kamenz, Niesky, Weißwasser and Zittau as well as across borders in Poland and the Czech Republic. General music director is Andrea Sanguineti. In addition to the classical repertoire, the Philharmonic Concerts are also particularly dedicated to contemporary discoveries. With the concert series “Witches Ride and Dragon Tones”, the New Lusatian Philharmonic is aimed at the young audience. Performances at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau are just as much a part of the NLP's tasks as school concerts and the promotion of church music beyond national borders. Since 2009, the orchestra has been the godfather of the German-Polish Youth Symphony Orchestra Görlitz / Zgorzelec (member of Jeunesses Musicales Germany). NLP musicians also play chamber concerts in the cultural space in a small cast.
musical direction
- Andrea Sanguineti: General Music Director
- Ulrich Kern: 1st Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director
- Albert Seidl: Choir director with conducting duties
- Olga Dribas: Solo coaching tutor, head of studies
- Ewa Zacharczyk-Kowal, dance repetiteur
statistics
In 2017, around 140,000 guests attended around 660 theater events at both locations. Three quarters of the visitors saw in-house productions - especially plays. Operas, operettas and other musical theater performances attracted 35,000 visitors. 8,700 guests heard the concerts of the New Lusatian Philharmonic. The Görlitzer Tanzcompany thrilled 6,600 spectators. A total of two million euros was collected.
Support associations and theater foundation
The Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater is supported by several associations and foundations. The Zittau location is managed by the Verein der Freunde des Zittauer Theaters e. V. supports the Görlitzer from the Görlitzer Theater- und Musikverein e. V. There is also the ViaThea e. V. to support the street theater festival in Görlitz. In order to ensure a diverse theater life in Görlitz in the long term, four large companies in the region founded the Lower Silesian Theater Foundation in 2004. Since then, the foundation has been able to financially support numerous projects of the Görlitz Theater that go beyond the regular operations of the theater. The Community Foundation Theater Zittau has been campaigning for the preservation of the Zittau Theater since 2013.
Festivals
ViaThea street theater festival
The ViaThea has been taking place on a summer weekend since 1995 (since 2015 always on the first weekend in July) on streets and squares in Görlitz and Zgorzelec.
Theater initiative JO-Ś and Festival 3LänderSpiel
JO-Ś aims to bring people from Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany together through the universal language of art. The highlight is the annual 3-country game. The international theater festival brings German, Polish and Czech collaborations to the stage. Is named JO-Ś after three mountains of the Czech-German-Polish border triangle: J eštěd (ridge), O ybin and Ś nieżka (Snow Mountain).
The international theater initiative JO-Ś continues to grow and now young people from the three neighboring countries of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic are also working on a joint theater project.
literature
- Philipp Bormann: Theater education, information, entertainment In: Between Neiße, Schöps and Spree: der Landkreis Görlitz , Görlitz 2012, pp. 344–349.
- Bert Siegel: 200 years of theater tradition in Zittau. Laughter shouldn't be neglected! in: Sächsische Heimatblätter 47 (2001) 4-5, pp. 274-276
Web links
- Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau GHT
- Theater / music association Görlitz
- Lower Silesian Theater Foundation
- wee dance company
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grenzlandtheater Zittau at www.andreas-praefcke.de , accessed on January 31, 2017
- ^ The new Grenzlandtheater in Zittau . In: Deutsche Bauhütte, issue 1/1938 ( digitized version )
- ↑ 140,000 visitors in the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau . ( radiolausitz.de [accessed on January 2, 2018]).