Raimund Theater

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The Raimund Theater in Vienna

The Raimundtheater (own spelling Raimund Theater ) is a theater in Vienna's 6th district of Mariahilf in Wallgasse 18-20, which today belongs to the United Theaters in Vienna and mainly serves as a venue for musicals . The renovation and conversion was completed at the end of May 2021.

story

Logo of the Raimund Theater
The Raimund Theater around 1898
The entrance area during the season of We Will Rock You
Auditorium of the Raimund Theater
Memorial stone for the former director Rudolf Marik

The theater, named after the Austrian playwright Ferdinand Raimund , was founded in 1893 by an association of 500 citizens of the Mariahilf district, built according to designs by the architect Franz Roth (1841–1909) and, fully electrically lit, on November 28, 1893 (first performance on November 27, 1893) ceremoniously opened with Raimund's magic game Die gefesselte Phantasie ( prologue written by Alfred von Berger )

Until 1896 the theater was under the direction of Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn . He and his artistic advisor Hermann Bahr turned the theater into a speaking stage with classic folk plays that were supposed to counterbalance the upper-class “operetta decadence”. Alexander Girardi , Eleonora Duse , Max Reinhardt , Louise Dumont and Adele Sandrock performed here.

In 1907 the Jewish director and theater director Sigmund Lautenburg (1851–1918) took over the management of the Raimund Theater, but only for a short time. He commissioned Carl Otto Czeschka to design the sets and costumes for a new production of the play " The Nibelungs " by Friedrich Hebbel . The performance was not performed for various reasons, but a direct result of Czeschka's intensive preoccupation with the Nibelung theme for the Raimund Theater were the drawings that served as the basis for the small book "Die Nibelungen" published by Gerlach & Wiedling.

Under director Wilhelm Karczag , the operetta found its way from 1908 , for example through the in-house production “ Der Zigeunerbaron ” by Johann Strauss in 1908 or Robert Stolz 's “Glücksmädel” and the Dreimäderlhaus based on Franz Schubert's music . From 1921 to 1924 mainly speaking pieces were played again under director Rudolf Beer .

After 1945, under Rudolf Marik (1900–1976), who ran the house from 1948 to 1976, the operetta with Johannes Heesters , Marika Rökk , Zarah Leander and other well-known actors and singers reached a climax. Many famous actors began their careers at the Raimund Theater , such as Hansi Niese , Paula Wessely , Attila Hörbiger and Karl Skraup .

In December 1968 the Raimundtheater celebrated its 75th anniversary with the performance of the operetta " Der Bettelstudent " by Carl Millöcker .

The festival premiere on May 23, 1969 was the operetta Giuditta by Franz Lehár , in which Gretl Schörg (1914–2006) made another brilliant appearance before she withdrew completely from stage life a little later.

After 1976 musicals were played sporadically. In 1984 and 1985 the theater was completely renovated. Since 1987 it has belonged to the United Bühnen Wien (GmbH) together with the Theater an der Wien and the Ronacher and has since been mainly a venue for musicals .

Well-known musicals in German such as Die Schöne und das Biest with Ethan Freeman and Caroline Vasicek in the leading roles, Tanz der Vampire with Steve Barton and Cornelia Zenz , Wake Up with Alexander Goebel and Rainhard Fendrich and, most recently, Barbarella with Nina Proll in the The title role and Eva-Maria Marold both had their world premieres at the Raimund Theater . In February 2005, the German-language premiere of Romeo and Juliet with Lukas Perman and Marjan Shaki in the two title roles took place. Other roles included Carin Filipčić as wet nurse, Mark Seibert as Tybalt, Rasmus Borkowski as Mercutio and Mathias Edenborn as Benvolio and Thomas Mülner as Count Paris.

The musical Elisabeth was played on the occasion of his 20th birthday from 2012 to 2014. Four LED translation boards were installed in the hall , on which the pieces have since been translated into English.

The Nestroy Theater Prize , initiated in 2000, was awarded for the first time in 2011 in the Raimund Theater .

The Raimund Theater will hold 1,400 seats after renovation. So far there have been 1,195 seats and 40 standing places, but that could vary from production to production.

In March 2018, the culture committee of the Vienna City Council decided to provide 12.76 million euros for the renovation of the theater. The theater has been closed for renovation work for around 14 months since June 17, 2019, the reopening was originally planned for autumn 2020 with the musical Miss Saigon . In June 2020 the reopening was postponed to January 2021. In October 2020 it was announced that the premiere had been postponed again to autumn 2021. On September 26, 2021, the Raimund Theater reopened with the "WE ARE MUSICAL - The Great Opening Gala". The premiere of Miss Saigon will take place on December 3, 2021.

World premieres operetta / singspiel

World premieres musical

musical Music and book premiere Kidney Performances / visitors additional information
dance of the Vampires Jim Steinman , Michael Kunze 4th October 1997 January 15, 2000 677 performances / 805,000 visitors Roman Polanski directed it himself
Wake up Rainhard Fendrich September 29, 2002 January 1, 2004
Barbarella Dave Stewart , Rudi Klausnitzer March 11, 2004 January 1, 2005
Rebecca Michael Kunze , Sylvester Levay September 28, 2006 December 31, 2008 405,000 visitors from January to June 2008 interrupted by We Will Rock You
Rudolf Frank Wildhorn , Jack Murphy February 26, 2009 January 24, 2010 210 performances / 180,984 visitors German-language premiere / world premiere of the Viennese version, co-production with Operettenhaus Budapest
Schikaneder Stephen Schwartz , Christian Struppeck September 30, 2016 June 21, 2017 216 performances + 8 previews / approx. 180,000 visitors
I am from Austria Rainhard Fendrich , Christian Struppeck , Titus Hoffman 16th September 2017 June 16, 2019 462 performances + 5 previews / 500,000 visitors With the songs by Rainhard Fendrich

Further musical performances

musical Music and book premiere Kidney Performances / visitors additional information
A chorus line Marvin Hamlisch , Michael Bennett October 16, 1987 July 1, 1988 225 performances / 235,000 visitors Austrian premiere
Les Misérables Alain Boublil , Claude-Michel Schoenberg September 15, 1988 March 31, 1990 400 performances / 420,000 visitors German-language premiere
Phantom of the opera Andrew Lloyd Webber June 9, 1990 June 30, 1993 1,363 performances / 1.4 million visitors previously from December 1988 to June 1990 at the Theater an der Wien , German-language premiere
Rocky Horror Show Richard O'Brien September 7, 1993 October 26, 1993 seven-week interlude, not by the VBW
Kiss the spider woman John Kander , Fred Ebb November 23, 1993 June 30, 1994 German-language premiere
Grease Warren Casey , Jim Jacobs September 28, 1994 June 30, 1995 265 performances / approx. 300,000 visitors German-language premiere
Disney's Beauty and the Beast Alan Menken , Howard Ashman , Tim Rice Sept. 28, 1995 June 29, 1997 560 performances / approx. 600,000 visitors European premiere
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Andrew Lloyd Webber March 3, 2000 January 14, 2001 236 performances / approx. 251,000 visitors Austrian premiere
Hair Galt MacDermot , Gerome Ragni , James Rado March 10, 2001 June 30, 2002 385 performances / approx. 395,000 visitors Austrian premiere
Romeo and Juliet Gérard Presgurvic February 24, 2005 July 8, 2006 German-language premiere
We will rock you Queen , Ben Elton January 16, 2008 July 13, 2008 203 performances, approx. 250,000 visitors Austrian premiere
I have never been to New York Udo Jürgens , Gabriel Barylli , Christian Struppeck March 17, 2010 June 15, 2012 592 performances / approx. 630,000 visitors (1st season) Austrian premiere (Viennese version)
17th April 2016 3rd July 2016 86 performances / approx. 78,000 visitors
Elisabeth Michael Kunze , Sylvester Levay 5th September 2012 1st of February 2014 381 performances / approx. 412,000 visitors slightly revised Viennese version, previously two seasons in the Theater an der Wien
Mamma Mia! Benny Andersson , Björn Ulvaeus , Catherine Johnson March 19, 2014 June 28, 2015 360 performances, approx. 360,000 visitors
Mozart! Michael Kunze , Sylvester Levay September 24, 2015 March 20, 2016 161 performances +7 previews / approx. 175,000 visitors previously at the Theater an der Wien
Miss Saigon Alain Boublil , Claude-Michel Schoenberg December 3, 2021 open minded

literature

  • Gustav Andreas Ressel: The Raimund Theater. A memorandum. Reisser, Vienna 1892.
  • Statutes of the Raimund Theater Association. Gorischek, Vienna 1892.
  • Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn: The tied up imagination. Occasional publication for the opening of the Raimund Theater. (Attached works: On the history of the bound fantasy ). Honegen, Vienna 1893.
  • Oscar Friedmann: On the crisis in the Raimund Theater. August Schulze, Leipzig 1896.
  • Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn: The Raimund Theater. Passion story of a German Volksbühne. New Revue, Vienna 1897.
  • 70 years of the Raimund Theater. November 28, 1893 - November 28, 1963 . Wiener Theaterbetriebsgesellschaft, Vienna 1963.
  • Maria Kinz: Raimund Theater. Jugend und Volk, Vienna (among others) 1985, ISBN 3-224-16003-9 .
  • Eva Marlene Drnek: Development of the Raimund Theater in Vienna. Burgtheater for the people. Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2007.

Web links

Commons : Raimundtheater  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Raimund Theater completely renovated. In: wien.orf.at. May 31, 2021, accessed June 1, 2021 .
  2. ↑ a b Raimund Theater. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 10514/1893, November 28, 1893, p. 5 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  3. ↑ Franz Roth. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  4. ^ Raimund Theater . In: Josef Kareis (Red.): Journal for electrical engineering. Organ of the Electrotechnical Association in Vienna . XI. Year (1893). Self-published, Vienna 1893, p. 561. - Full text online .
  5. ↑ Full text online .
  6. ^ Alfred Freiherr von Berger: Prologue to the opening performance in the Raimund Theater . Steyrermühl, Vienna 1893.
  7. ^ Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn: The suspended theater director. Speech of the director - delivered on February 24, 1896 at the extraordinary general assembly of the Raimund Theater Association in Vienna . Second edition. Meyer, Leipzig 1896.
  8. ↑ a b lining:  Lautenburg, Sigmund. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 52.
  9. ↑ "Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950", 1970, p. 52.
  10. ↑ Senta Siller, Carl Otto Czeschka - Leben und Werk, dissertation 1990, p. 77.
  11. ↑ Harald Sterk : “Giuditta” as a festival premiere in the Raimundtheater: Lehar's unhappy love of opera . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 25, 1969, p. 6 , middle left ( The website of the Arbeiterzeitung is currently being redesigned. The linked pages are therefore not accessible. - Digitized version).
  12. ↑ orf.at: Raimund Theater: Refurbishment starts in 2019 . Article dated March 7, 2018, accessed March 7, 2018.
  13. ↑ Raimund Theater will not open again until 2021. In: ORF.at . June 8, 2020, accessed June 8, 2020 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ The opening performance included: kk Interior Minister Bacquehem , Mayor Prix and Governor of Lower Austria Kielmansegg  - who took the floor at the subsequent banquet in the Hotel Goldenes Kreuz , Mariahilfer Straße 99, as the highest ranking member. - See: Raimund Theater. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 10515/1893, November 29, 1893, p. 7, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.

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