Innsbruck jousting games
The Innsbrucker Ritterspiele - Märchen- und Boulevardbühne association is an amateur theater group based in Innsbruck . Knight plays, tabloid comedies and children's fairy tales are performed.
history
With the establishment of the amateur theater group Pradler Bauerntheater in 1762, the foundation stone was laid for the creation of today's Innsbruck knight games. At that time still a traveling stage, in 1870 a permanent venue was found in the Lodronischer Hof in Innsbruck 's Pradl district . The founders of this stage were Franz Rauter, Josefine Weiss and Ferdinand Exl .
After the First World War, the group split up. So some members founded the Pradler Ritterspiele in Vienna , the other part stayed in Innsbruck and from 1955 appeared as D'Stoanriegler peasant players under the direction of Walter Saxer.
In 1958 the club found a new home in the Bierstindl inn, where the first premiere of the knight comedy "The villainous Kuno von Drachenfels" took place on August 5, 1961 .
In 1963 the association changed its name to United Stages, Pradler Bauerntheater, Innsbrucker Ritterspiele, from which the name Pradler Bauerntheater Innsbruck emerged. 1973 saw the first television broadcast of the "villainous Kunos". This was the trigger for an objection by the Pradler Ritterspiele association in Vienna against the naming of the Tyrolean group. This made it necessary to change the name to Alt Innsbrucker Bauerntheater und Ritterspiele .
In 1982, under chairman Gebhard Jenewein, a new stage was built in the Bierstindl inn. Ten years later, the Bierstindl is to give way to a residential building, but this was prevented by a signature campaign organized by the "knights". In the same year, the inn became the KulturGasthaus Bierstindl as a result of this signature campaign.
On July 8, 2006, the association presented its current name Innsbrucker Ritterspiele - fairy tale and boulevard stage in the presence of Mayoress Hilde Zach . As part of the event, Hilde Zach was solemnly named "Wild Hilde vom Bierstindl".
The KulturGasthaus Bierstindl closed on December 31, 2010. But the Innsbruck Ritterspiele lived on their creativity and gave guest performances in various venues throughout Innsbruck.
In 2014 the association moved back to the Bierstindl, which was renovated by the Edith Haberland Wagner Foundation , the new owner. In May 2014 the curtain was raised again for the first time - and a piece of folk culture was revived.