Casemate theater
The Kasemattentheater ( Théâtre des casemates in French ) is a theater company founded in 1964 in Luxembourg City .
history
The actor Tun Deutsch (1932–1977) founded the Grand Ducal Center for Dramatic Art on December 11, 1964 . With an avant-garde theater and an extraordinary venue, he wanted to reach a new, especially young audience and make the acting profession better known. The first public performances in the rooms of the casemates in the Bockfelsen took place in the summer of 1965 with the dramas La leçon and La jeune fille à marier ( The lesson and the girl to marry ) by the French-Romanian author Eugène Ionesco . This established a regular summer theater festival and the theater has been officially called the Kasemattentheater ever since.
From 1991 to 1997 a stage in the Limpertsberg district served as a provisional performance venue. In March 1998, the City of Luxembourg gave the ensemble a former warehouse as a permanent theater location. The hall was named after the theater founder Tun Deutsch, who died in 1977 at the age of 45. The inauguration took place with the performance Children, Kitchen, Church by Dario Fo .
The casemate theater is a member of the Luxembourg theater association, which brings together a total of 17 professional theaters.
In one of the main corridors of the casemates there is a bronze relief with the portrait of Tun Deutsch, reminding of the place where it was founded.
Performances
- 1965: La leçon and La jeune fille à marier
- Between 1966 and the 1990s: Plays by Samuel Beckett , Bertolt Brecht , Sławomir Mrożek , Jean-Paul Sartre , Ionesco, René de Obaldia , Albert Camus , Hilary Saint George Saunders , Walser , Kafka , Friedrich Schiller , Ibsen , Fassbinder , Anton Chekhov , Georg Kreisler , Harold Pinter and many others in the program. In 1972 the ensemble organized their first literary and cabaret evening with Tucholsky poems, which was successfully continued over the next few years.
- 2009/2010: Under the motto revolutions, upheavals and upheavals , Danton's death by Georg Büchner , cult by Falk Richter and the coproduction Adam and Eva with the Berlin theater and artist collective “Eigenreich” were performed.
- 2010/2011: Under the motto Identity (s) , for example, pieces by the young Luxembourger Carole Lorang or the German Moritz Schönecker were staged.
- March 2014: Poison, a marriage story. by Lot Vekemans ; Directed by Johan Leysen; with Désirée Nosbusch and Germain Wagner
Web links
- Kasemattentheater website (German)
- Overview of all performances and staged readings between 2008 and 2014 with images of the respective posters
Sources and individual references
- ↑ Homepage LAFT Berlin with details on the Eigenreich venue ( memento of the original from November 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the district of Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg ; accessed on March 1, 2014
- ↑ Performance of poison with detailed information ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 1, 2014
