Little comedy at Max II
Die Kleine Komödie am Max II ( Little Comedy on the Max II Monument ) was a theater in Munich .
The theater, housed in house number 47 on Maximilianstrasse , was opened in 1946 in a former café hall . The owner and director was Gerhard Metzner, one of the first license holders of the American military government for a private Munich theater. In those early years he put on more American plays than any other theater in Bavaria.
Director Isebil Sturm directed the boulevard theater for the next few decades after Metzner's death. For many years, the unsubsidized Kleine Komödie at Max II was an integral part of Munich's cultural life. Numerous well-known actors, including Toni Berger , Herbert Bötticher , Grit Böttcher , Sigurd Fitzek , Uschi Glas , Johannes Heesters , Anja Kruse , Ingrid Pan , Gunther Philipp , Mady Rahl , Ilja Richter , Christiane Rücker , Heinz Rühmann , Sigmar Solbach and Heinz-Günter Stamm stood on the stage here. Four plays per year were performed in the 600-seat theater.
From 1970 to 1972 Wolfgang Spier was artistic director. In 1983, Nino Korda and Isebil Sturm took over the management of the Kleine Komödie, to which the Komödie im Bayerischer Hof had belonged since 1961 .
The Kleine Komödie am Max II was closed in January 2007 for financial reasons. In January 2008 the GOP Entertainment Group took over the theater. In September 2008 the GOP Variety Theater moved here. It has 300 seats.
literature
- Gerhard Metzner / Isebil Sturm: Ten Years of Small Comedy . Festschrift, 1956
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 16.9 ″ N , 11 ° 35 ′ 16.6 ″ E