Pfalzbau

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The Pfalzbau is a congress and event house, as well as a concert and theater building in the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein . It does not have its own ensemble , but is run as a guest theater. The Pfalzbau occasionally also presents in-house and coproductions with other theaters.

history

The palace building was inaugurated on September 21, 1968 and was the successor to the " old palace building " on Berliner Platz from 1928, which was destroyed in the bombing nights of September 6, 1943 and January 6, 1945. After the war the building was provisionally partially rebuilt, but in 1957 it had to give way to the new elevated road traffic management. Hansgünther Heyme , one of the co-founders of the German directorial theater, surprisingly took over the management of the house in February 2004. In the same year he established the Ludwigshafen Festival , to which internationally top-class dance theater and drama productions are invited every autumn. A large area for children and young people was also set up during his directorship. From 2007 to 2009 the Pfalzbau was extensively renovated and rebuilt. In the meantime, the company's events had to switch to other venues.

The current director of the theater is Tilman Gersch , who succeeded Hansgünther Heyme on January 1, 2015 . In February 2015, the international theater festival Open World took place for the first time under Gersch's direction .

  • Palatinate building from the east

  • Pfalzbau and Pfalzsäule

  • Pfalzbau and Pfalzsäule

  • Pfalzbau in 2008 as a construction site

Palatine Column

In front of the Pfalzbau stands the Palatinate Column, a 21 m high obelisk that the Munich artist Blasius Spreng designed together with the Ludwigshafen artist Ernst W. Kunz . It belongs to the outdoor area of ​​the new palace building, inaugurated on September 21, 1968, the theater building of the city of Ludwigshafen.

Originally, the Palatinate Column was surrounded by a 200 m² round water basin with several small fountains , but when the square was redesigned in the early 1990s, it was replaced by a stone base over which water flows.

A model of the Palatinate Column is awarded by the city of Ludwigshafen to deserving citizens or to partner cities.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pfalzbau event center. Accessed April 3, 2019 (German, English).
  2. ↑ http://www.swr.de/landesschau-aktuell/bw/rhein-neckar/neuer-intendant-fuer-ludwigshafener-pfalzbau-theater-tilman-gersch-freut-sich-auf-2015/-/id=1582 /did=13182334/nid=1582/12khnhu/index.html
  3. ↑ http://www.offenewelt.ludwigshafen.de/

Web links

Commons : Pfalzbau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 45.9 "  N , 8 ° 26 ′ 45.6"  E