Central Saxon theater
The Central Saxon Theater emerged in 1993 as the Central Saxon Theater and Philharmonic gGmbH from the merger of the Stadttheater Freiberg and Döbeln . It comprises the areas of drama, musical theater and philharmonic orchestra.
history
In Freiberg, where the oldest city theater in the world - d. This means that the oldest institution that has remained in the ancestral historical building is located, the history of theater began with traveling comedians who opened their “boards and posts” for some performances. In 1789 the Freiberg entrepreneur Johann Gotthelf Engler had the idea of investing his fortune in a theater . He bought a house on Buttermarkt built in 1623 and had it converted into a theater. As early as Easter 1790 it was opened by the then renowned “ Secondasche Troupe ”. Since there was not much money to be made with art , the disappointed Englishman offered his theater to the city of Freiberg for sale after a year. The city council took it, “... since part of the money is idle in the coffers ..., but the other part ... is considered to be better if this house is in the hands of the authorities ... and through experience itself confirms that the food level of the citizens gains through the spectacles ”. This justification indicates that Freiberg was a rich city even then; In addition, at that time it was recognized that the drama promotes the prosperity of the citizens. The indirect profitability is therefore not a new discovery. In parallel, the shows Janus face of enlightenment : Of course it is better if the government ensures that the theatergoers are formed as if they uncontrollably indulge their pleasure.
In 1800 the young Carl Maria von Weber lived with his father in Freiberg for a few months, and the young composer's first stage work was premiered in the Freiberg City Theater. "The [silent] forest girl". The success was modest. There was also a dispute about whether this was due to the weakness of the composition or that of the orchestra. However, the career of the then 14-year-old composer began in Freiberg. The actress Inge Keller , who belonged to the Freiberg ensemble in 1945 , was considered the grande dame of the German Theater in Berlin until her death on February 6, 2017 . Baritone Hans-Joachim Ketelsen also made such a career , whose path led from the Theater am Buttermarkt via Chemnitz and Dresden to the opera stages in Bayreuth , Milan and New York .
In the last quarter of the 19th century, the theater building was expanded in the direction of Borngasse, in 1951/52 there was a general renovation and a new extension, with which the theater moved 5.50 meters further on to the Buttermarkt. Extensive construction work took place again between 1986 and 1991, and since then the theater has occupied the entire residential area between Borngasse and Buttermarkt, Weingasse and Enger Gasse - the redesign of the external facades in 2008/2009 now make this clear at first glance.
The year 1989 brought a big turning point for theater life : with its long history, the many subscribers and the close ties of the theater friends of an entire region, the Freiberg city theater was not acutely endangered, but it was difficult to imagine that a municipality with 40,000 inhabitants would have one Should finance multi-branch house with orchestra. The Freiberg Theater thus became one of the touchstones of the Saxon Cultural Areas Act, which is now considered exemplary nationwide. Institutions of regional importance are also supported by the region, i. H. (co-) financed by a “ cultural space ” to which several districts come together. Concerning the theater, in 1993 the cultural area of Central Saxony with the districts of Döbeln, Freiberg and Mittweida ; and since there was also a theater in Döbeln that the council had just closed against the bitter resistance of the local theater enthusiasts created a new theater company: the "Mittelsächsische Theater and Philharmonic profit organization" with the cities of Freiberg and Döbeln and the district Freiberg as shareholders and the Central Saxony cultural area as the largest donor. Since April 2017, the theater has been supported by the François Maher Presley Foundation for Art and Culture, directly through the assumption of costs and indirectly through the purchase of theater tickets for children from the Central Saxony area. The foundation is the theater's largest single sponsor.
Organization of the theater
The Mittelsächsische Theater is funded by grants from the cities of Freiberg and Döbeln and the Free State of Saxony as part of the Saxon cultural space law . The current theater management (September 2019) consists of the managing director Hans Peter Ickrath, the artistic director Ralf-Peter Schulze, the general music director Raoul Grüneis as well as a technical director, the drama director, the senior opera directors, the choir director and the chief dispatcher. The Middle Saxon Theater Freiberg und Döbeln had a budget of 10.2 million euros in 2017/18, of which 9.2 million were grants. From this season onwards, the subsidies will be increased by the shareholders of the University City of Freiberg, City of Döbeln and the district of Central Saxony.
In addition to the management, the staff includes 15 actors, 9 singers (the theater management now relies more on guests) and 16 choir members as well as the orchestra, the Central Saxon Philharmonic, with 48 musicians. The theater has a total of 170 employees. The number of visitors was approx. 81,000 in 2016/2017, approx. 85,000 in 2017/2018, approx. 91,500 in 2018/2019, with around 600 performances per year to choose from.
The Central Saxon Theater operated its youth work as a youth theater in Central Saxony . The Young Theater Döbeln founded the local theater development association after the activities of the Döbeln Youth Theater, established in 1997 by the Middle Saxon Theater and Lessing-Gymnasium Döbeln, ended in 2008 . The (Central Saxon) youth theater with its own management emerged from the bundling of the theater youth club Freiberg and young theater Döbeln .
Venues
The second main venue for the ensemble was the Döbelner Stadttheater; But there were also readings and concerts, performances in schools and in the open air throughout the cultural area. The theater and the cultural space paved the way, so to speak, for the new district of central Saxony, which was formed in 2008 from the old districts of Döbeln, Freiberg and Mittweida - shortly after the theater with the Kriebstein lake stage also had a large permanent venue in the third of the three old districts. The district reform also had an impact on the theater constitution: the new district of central Saxony replaced the district of Freiberg as a partner in the theater; and since a cultural area must by definition consist of several districts, the new cultural area "Erzgebirge-Central Saxony" was created.
In Döbeln, where today's theater building was built in 1872, performances can be traced back to the 18th century. From 1954 the theater there was run by the district of Döbeln until the then district council decided to close it in 1992. The city of Döbeln reopened after a few months by joining the newly founded Mittelächsische Theater und Philharmonie gGmbH as a partner. In addition to the elimination of the extensive damage caused by the floods in 2002 and 2013, the building received an extension with a studio stage in 2007. In 2011/12 the hall was extensively reconstructed.
Since 2007, the Central Saxon Theater has been using the Kriebstein Seebühne as a summer venue, the stage of which is located on the water surface of the Kriebstein Dam . This venue has had fixed spectator stands with 850 seats since 2008.
Other venues of the Central Saxon Theater are (as of the 2015/16 season) the Nikolaikirche Freiberg , the courtyard of Freudenstein Castle , the St. Nikolai town church in Döbeln and the manor house in Gödelitz .
literature
- Christine Klecker: The Freiberg Theater . in: Sächsische Heimatblätter 58 (2012, 3), pp. 222–229
- Roland Dreßler, Christine Klecker: On the history of the Freiberg theater . Verlag Klaus Gumnior, Chemnitz 2016, ISBN 978-3-937386-26-3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Central Saxon Theater: Theater Freiberg. Retrieved January 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 26, 2018 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.
- ↑ http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/stiftung-sponsert-theaterbesuch-3778385/ ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Central Saxon Theater: Central Saxon Theater. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
- ↑ https://www.freipresse.de/emittelachsen/freiberg/theater-verzeich-besucherrekord-artikel10608862
- ↑ Young Theater Döbeln eV Accessed on January 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Young Theater Döbeln. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
- ^ Central Saxon Theater: Theater Döbeln. Retrieved January 14, 2018 .
- ^ City of Döbeln: Theater Döbeln. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 14, 2017 ; accessed on January 14, 2018 . 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.
- ^ Central Saxon Theater: Kriebstein Seebühne. Retrieved January 14, 2018 .
- ^ Central Saxon Theater: Schedule. Retrieved January 14, 2018 .
