Hoogduitse Schouwburg Amsterdam

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Hoogduitse Schouwburg (around 1800)

The Hoogduitse Schouwburg (German: Hochdeutsches Theater , referred to as German Theater ) was a theater building in Amsterdam . The performances in this theater, one of the first in town, are considered one of the starting points of the Dutch theatrical tradition.

The German Theater was built on Amstelstraat No. 21 for the "Hoogduitsche Tooneelsociëteit" and opened on January 19, 1791. The first performance was JA Dietrich's Der Triumph der Künste and August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe .

Jacob Hartog Dessauer , who had founded the "High German Jewish Society" as early as 1784 and had already performed plays and operas with it, obtained permission here in 1795 to run a theater company within the framework of this society. This company stayed in the theater until 1807. From 1823 a number of Viennese artists were engaged here, including the married couple Joseph and Amalie Schütz , the conductor Hieronymus Payer and, as a singer and actor, Johann Nestroy .

In 1852 Abraham van Lier took over the theater and called it "Grand Théâtre des Variétés", from 1861 only "Grand Théâtre". The fate of the building in the 20th century was unique: during the hunger winter of 1944–1945 it was used by the locals as firewood, and the ruins were torn down in 1946.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaartje Groot, Geliefd en gevreesd: Duits toneel in Nederland rond 1800 , Uitgeverij Verloren, 2010.

literature

  • Jürgen Hein : Nestroy in Amsterdam , in: Nestroyana , 8 / 3–4 (1988), pp. 52–70.
  • Henk J. Koning: Nestroy in Amsterdam. On the reception of his pieces on the Dutch stage in the 19th century , in: Nestroyana , 14 / 3–4 (1994), pp. 91–100.
  • Till Gerrit Waidelich: Documents on Nestroy's Amsterdam engagement in correspondence reports about the German theater there , in: Nestroyana , 17 / 1–2 (1997), pp. 24–38.
  • Grand Théâtre , in: Theater Instituut Nederland, PS Items (Ed.): Theaters in Nederland sinds de zeventiende eeuw . Theater Instituut Nederland, Amsterdam 2007, ISBN 978-90-77204-37-5 , pp. 113-115
  • Klaartje Groot: Geliefd en gevreesd: Duits toneel in Nederland rond 1800 . Uitgeverij Verloren, 2010, p. 64

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