State Theater of Lower Austria

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State Theater of Lower Austria

The Lower Austria State Theater is a theater in the Lower Austrian capital St. Pölten .

history

In the autumn of 1820, a military prison converted by master builder Josef Schwerdtfeger was opened on today's Rathausplatz as the first permanent theater in St. Pölten, which also served as a ballroom . The first tenant was the theater entrepreneur Leopold Hoch, who was followed by others. The theater is mentioned in a hiking guide from the Biedermeier period , the work “ Vienna's Environs for Twenty Hours Around ” by Adolf Schmidl from 1835:

The newly built theater is big enough for the city, and with its half dozen boxes and gallery it might not be unfriendly if it were better lit.

After it was closed for financial reasons in the 1847/1848 season, the theater was sold to the city and thus became the city theater. After the ring theater fire in 1881, the building was closed as a theater due to a lack of fire safety and from then on only used as a ballroom. In 1893 the building was completely rebuilt according to plans by Heinrich Wohlmeyer ; only the outer walls remained of the old theater. When the city theater reopened, it had an extended stage, an enlarged orchestra room and a total of 500 seats.

The theater remained closed in the 1927/28 season and was subsequently merged with the theaters in Baden , Krems and Bruck an der Leitha to form the City Theater . After its closure in 1931, it was reopened in 1933, but was only a show theater from 1935 to 1938 . During the Second World War, the building was used as an SS quarter and storage room and was eventually damaged by bombs, with the roof being destroyed. In 1948 the theater could be reopened and the theater and music theater business resumed, but in the first time it had no roof and was therefore involuntarily open-air theater.

Between 1966 and 1969, the house was extensively rebuilt and expanded again based on plans by Paul Pfaffenbichler , which reduced the capacity of the auditorium to 411 seats. With the theater on the rehearsal stage (from 1975 "Studio der Zeit"), the theater had a second venue until it was closed in 1986. In 1996 the theater was renovated and in 2002 a second theater with 120 seats was added with the theater workshop .

From the 1990s the stage was called Theater of the State Capital St. Pölten - Theater for Lower Austria . The theater in its present form has existed since the 2005/06 season. The house, which has now been taken over by the state, has since been called the Lower Austria State Theater , which, as a single-line house, only defines itself through spoken theater. The foyer of the large house and the theater café were redesigned in summer 2012 as modern components in the historical ambience of the theater building.

Honors

  • 2011 Isabella Suppanz nominated for the special prize of the Nestroy Theater Prize 2011 as "director responsible for the upswing of the Lower Austria State Theater ".
  • 2012 Brigitta Furgler as Mrs. Vockerat in Lonely People by Gerhart Hauptmann nominated for the Nestroy Theater Prize 2012 in the category best supporting role.
  • 2012 Lonely People by Gerhart Hauptmann , staged by Janusz Kica, nominated for the Nestroy Theater Prize 2012 in the category “best federal state performance”.
  • 2013 Franziska Hackl nominated as Medea in Mamma Medea by Tom Lanoye for the Nestroy Theater Prize 2013 in the category “best actress”.
  • 2013 Mamma Medea by Tom Lanoye, staged by Philipp Hauß, nominated for the Nestroy Theater Prize 2013 in the category “best federal state performance”.
  • 2013 Christine Jirku, member of the ensemble of the Lower Austria State Theater, nominated for the Nestroy Theater Prize 2013 in the category “Nestroy-ORF III Audience Award”.
  • 2014 My mother, Cleopatra by Attila Bartis, staged by Robert Alföldi, nominated for the Nestroy Theater Prize 2014 in the category “best federal state performance”.
  • 2014 Woe to him who lies! by Franz Grillparzer, staged by Alexander Charim nominated for the Nestroy Theater Prize 2014 in the category “best federal state performance”.
  • 2014 Swintha Gersthofer as Edrita in woe to him who lies! nominated by Franz Grillparzer for the Nestroy Theater Prize 2014 in the category “best young talent”.
  • 2015 Special prize at the Nestroy Theater Prize 2015 for Glanzstoff by Felix Mitterer in the Glanzstoff-Fabrik St. Pölten , citizens' theater of the Lower Austria State Theater
  • 2016 Nestroy Theater Prize 2016 - Best State Performance for Lights in the Suburbs , directed by Alexander Charim
  • 2019 Nestroy Theater Prize 2019 - in the Best Young Talent category for Moritz Beichl with his staging of “The day my grandfather was a hero” by Paulus Hochgatterer
  • 2019 Stella Award (STELLA-Darstellender.Kunst.Prize for young audiences) - in the category “outstanding music” for Jelena Popržan in “The Language of Water” by Sarah Crossan (production: Sara Ostertag ).

management

(from 1975)

literature

  • Alfred Dier: The History of the City Theater of St. Pölten from 1975 to 1991 . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna 1993 (available at the Austrian Theater Museum Vienna)
  • Alois Haider : The history of the St. Pölten City Theater from 1820 to 1975 . Dissertation, University of Vienna 1978 (available at the Austrian Theater Museum Vienna)
  • Dagmar Truxa: “A so a theater !!” Actor stories from the provinces . Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78179-0 (on the history 1975–1991)
  • Thomas Karl among other things: The art monuments of the city of St. Pölten and its incorporated localities. Berger, Horn 1999, ISBN 3-85028-310-0 ( Austrian Art Topography 54). Chapter: Theater of the state capital St. Pölten - Theater for Lower Austria , pp. 207–209

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Schmidl: Vienna's surroundings for twenty hours in a circle. Described by Adolf Schmidl after his own hikes. Printed and published by Carl Gerold, Vienna 1835, pp. 313–314.
  2. ↑ a b c http://www.landestheater.net/ueber-uns/haus
  3. ^ Nestroys: Wuttke and Orth are "best actors" . Article dated November 2, 2015, accessed November 2, 2015.
  4. ↑ Oberösterreichische Nachrichten: Graefner and Dimic are the best young mimes . Article dated November 7, 2016, accessed November 7, 2016.
  5. ↑ Marie Rötzer has headed the Lower Austria State Theater from 2016 . derstandard.at, June 11, 2015, accessed on December 29, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Landestheater St. Pölten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 20.2 ″  N , 15 ° 37 ′ 20.1 ″  E