Sigmaringen Court Theater

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Sigmaringen Court Theater

The Hoftheater Sigmaringen is a theater building in the city of Sigmaringen . The building, which had previously been used as a theater for decades, and later also as a cinema, is now a venue for various cabaret and cinema events.

history

In 1826 Prince Anton Aloys from Sigmaringen bought the outbuilding of the local restaurant Bären for the Princely House . Even at that time, it engaged actors for theater and opera performances and made the house available to the Museum Society , an association of the upper class in Sigmaringen. Around 50 years later, between 1876 and 1877, the house was rebuilt in neoclassical style and from then on used as a pure theater. From this time onwards, the “Princely Hohenzollern theater directors” engaged by the Princely House ran the theater until the outbreak of the First World War was played continuously and at times had an ensemble of up to 41 people including orchestra.

Performance of the play Die Welle in the court theater by players from the Waldbühne Sigmaringendorf

From 1928 the house was also used as a cinema. The Sigmaringer Theater flourished briefly after the end of World War II under the direction of Robert Marencke. Under the name "Hohenzollerisches Landestheater" the first post-war season opened on November 27, 1945 with the play The Accomplices by Johann Wolfgang Goethe . Among the actors were Toni Berger and Gustl Bayrhammer , who were still rather unknown at the time . The then famous actor Theodor Loos , who had previously played in such famous cinema classics as Die Nibelungen , Metropolis and M , made a guest appearance for one theater season .

In the early 1950s the theater lost its importance. After the ensemble gave guest performances from the western Alb to the whole of Upper Swabia in the post-war years, the Tübingen Theater, today's LTT , increasingly took over this function. At the beginning of the 1950s, theater operations were essentially stopped. In 1954 the house was rebuilt in the style of the 1950s under the direction of the princely master builder Werner Roth. Since then, the building has been divided into two uses. The Princely Flower Shop opened on the ground floor and has housed the theater café since the 1980s. The foyer of the court theater was given a gondola-shaped ticket office and a wall relief by Franz Xaver Marmon based on sketches by the artist Günther Dietrich and was used from then on as a cinema with changing tenants. At the end of the 20th century, the court theater also lost its importance as a cinema and increasingly had to contend with competition from larger and better equipped cinemas in neighboring towns. The closure followed in 2009.

A few cultural and cabaret events still took place, but it wasn't until 2012 that the court theater was breathed new life again, when Martin Robben leased the house, expanded it into a cabaret center and, among other things, restored the foyer to the style of the 1950s with many volunteers. The official reopening took place on April 12, 2013.

In 2006 four Sigmaringer artists launched the “Sigmaringer Kulturherbst”, a series of events with cabaret, cinema performances and author readings, in the framework of which well-known authors such as Hartmut Lange , Thommie Bayer , Katharina Born , Alex Capus , Christof Hamann , Peter Weber and Klaus Merz , Katrin Seglitz , Necla Kelek , Michal Hvorecký , Max Goldt , Jan Weiler , Péter Esterházy , Martin Walser , Günter Schneidewind Rolf Hochhuth , Ottfried Fischer , Najem Wali or Martin Graff performed in the court theater. Under the name of "Hohenzollerisches Hoftheater Sigmaringen", the actors Torsten Münchow and Martin Robben wanted to reconnect with the Prussian-Hohenzollern tradition on the one hand, but also with that of the Hohenzollern regional theater on the other. Own theater productions and international collaborations were planned. However, these plans could not be implemented because the tenant Robben was informed by the Princely House after the end of the 2015 cultural autumn season that no further events were possible in the court theater due to fire protection deficiencies. Whether and when a further renovation in terms of fire protection, the costs are expected to be at least 50,000 euros, has not yet been decided.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Maier: Hoftheater outside and inside completely renewed . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from October 19, 1954
  2. ↑ Michael Hescheler: In the court theater the curtain should open more often. In: Schwäbische Zeitung, May 25, 2012
  3. ↑ Christoph Wartenberg: Hoftheater offers a special atmosphere . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from April 15, 2013
  4. ^ Christoph Wartenberg: Princely house closes the court theater. Schwäbische Zeitung Sigmaringen, December 19, 2015, accessed on December 19, 2015 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 12.8 "  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 54.5"  E