State Theater Upper Palatinate

Leuchtenberg Castle with its characteristic public roof during the Castle Festival

The Landestheater Oberpfalz (LTO) is a non-profit GmbH based in Leuchtenberg and is considered to be “Germany's youngest state theater”. The sponsoring association and sole shareholder is the Stadtbühne Vohenstrauß , from which the State Theater emerged as a professional spin-off on January 1, 2010. Various venues in the Bavarian administrative district of Upper Palatinate are played all year round , and the Leuchtenberg Castle Festival is traditionally held in summer .

history

The Landestheater Oberpfalz was founded in 2010 as a GmbH, the first director was Matthias Winter. Since it was founded, the LTO has been staging the Leuchtenberg Castle Festival, which was previously organized by the Vohenstrauß Stadtbühne , with the still existing amateur ensemble, and after the "Small Stage" was closed in the city of Weiden in the Upper Palatinate, it also planned the event in the Weidener Max until the 2011/12 season -Reger-Halle taken over. Since 2014, production activities have been expanded to include year-round operations with a focus on professional acting. The LTO youth theater festival in Weiden and the Junge Ensemble, a youth club for 13-18 year olds, have existed since 2015.

In 2016 the Landestheater Oberpfalz was the first winner of the Oberpfälzer Heimatpreis, awarded by Minister of State Markus Söder , who was the patron of the Burgfestspiele in 2017. Also in 2016, the award-winning author Bernhard Setzwein from Upper Palatinate wrote the play Late Visiting - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Redivivus for the LTO in cooperation with the Flossenbürg Memorial, which premiered at the memorial under the direction of Till Rickelt.

Theater management

• 2010–2014: Matthias Winter, managing director
• 2014–2016: Frank Kasch, management
• Since 2014: Till Rickelt, artistic director
• Since 2016: Wolfgang Meidenbauer, managing director

Program and direction

In addition to the amateur ensemble, which is organized in the Stadtbühne Vohenstrauss association and which provides the actors for the Leuchtenberg Castle Festival , the LTO includes a core of five permanent professional actors. The Landestheater currently has 26 full-time and part-time employees, including two theater educators; it cooperates with the state-recognized drama school Academy for Performing Arts Bavaria . The program ranges from ambitious entertainment in High German and Upper Palatinate dialect to socio-political plays, musicals and project developments by the Junge Ensemble. As part of the promotion of young talent, the LTO regularly offers courses for children and acting workshops in the Upper Palatinate, is active in theater education in schools and cooperates artistically with other institutions.

Venues

Regular venues of the LTO are

• in Leuchtenberg the ruins of Leuchtenberg Castle ( Castle Festival Leuchtenberg )
• in Vohenstrauss the town hall and the Friedrichsburg castle
• in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate the regional library
• in Kemnath the multi-purpose hall
• in Neustadt an der Waldnaab the town hall

In order to live up to its self-image as a state theater, the LTO also carries out side trips and guest performances at various locations in the Upper Palatinate, including the Tirschenreuth Museum Quarter , the Schönbergbühne Grafenwöhr , the Upper Palatinate Open Air Museum Neusath-Perschen , the Speinshart Monastery , Burgtreswitz , and the theater on the Schloßberg in Waldeck.

advancement

The Landestheater Oberpfalz is next to the Theater Regensburg the second publicly funded professional theater company in the Upper Palatinate . His supporters include the Free State of Bavaria , the administrative district of Upper Palatinate, the Neustadt an der Waldnaab , the district of Schwandorf , of Tirschenreuth , the city Weiden , the town Vohenstrauß , the city Tirschenreuth , the city Kemnath , the city Waldsassen , the city of Neustadt an der Waldnaab , the city of Grafenwöhr , the municipality of Speinshart , the municipality of Bodenwöhr and the market Leuchtenberg .

Web links

• Homepage of the Landestheater Oberpfalz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Germany's youngest state theater. The German Stage, 2013, accessed on June 15, 2017 . 
2. ↑ White lions for the diversity of the Upper Palatinate. BR - Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2016, archived from the original on November 8, 2016 ; accessed on June 15, 2017 . 
3. ↑ It remains a certain secret. BR - Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2016, archived from the original on April 22, 2016 ; accessed on June 15, 2017 .