Renaissance Theater (Vienna)

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The Renaissance theater in the Neubaugasse

The Renaissance Theater is a Viennese theater in Neubaugasse in the 7th district and is currently one of the venues for the Theater der Jugend . The theater, which the brothers Eduard and Emanuel Schweinburg were probably responsible for installing, is located in a rented apartment building and has 667 (originally 844) seats. Since it is not an independent theater building, it is often called a Renaissance stage .

history

One of the main tasks of the Wiener Freie Bühne association , which was founded in 1906, was to spread the theater culture among the socially disadvantaged sections of the population. The Vienna City Theater was originally intended for the performances, but its construction was not yet completed. The association therefore chose the newly completed theater hall at Neubaugasse 36, where the first performance of the association with the performance of Nestroys Kampl took place on December 12, 1912 in what was then known as the “Volksbühne” .

The Volksbühne under the direction of Arthur Rundt and his strictly literary program stayed in this theater room until the summer of 1916, “proving that Vienna can claim and maintain a stage of this kind, showing how dignity and level are to the senses They can also be held with weak means. ” Hanns Sassmann's Das Blaue Aug ' , Else Feldmann's The Scream That Nobody Hears , Georg Hirschfeld's Die Mütter or Romain Rolland's Die Wölfe were played .

From autumn 1916, Rundt relocated the Volksbühne's venue to the former Colosseum at Nussdorfer Straße 4–6 and opened it there with Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream in sets by Alfred Roller . This was followed by Emil Rosenow hangover lamp and Sophocles ' Antigone . "Away from good and evil converts, people stage' their lonely road on. Director Rund came to Vienna with big plans. He wanted to offer the working people a place of art, wanted to show the Viennese with Großmann how one must and should act in theater. Because of the tiresome money, the beautiful dream of the future failed and you had to 'cook with water'. [...] With the late Pernerstorfer , the artistic ambitions of the Social Democrats have also sunk into the inanimate, Vienna has one more small stage. On which is played hard and well, even if the capacity forbids any real stimulation by itself ... "

The theater in Neubaugasse was used by other groups until 1918. From 1920, after a re-establishment of the Wiener Freie Bühne , this again played in the theater, which has now been renamed the Renaissance stage . At that time, u. a. Alfred Neugebauer , Hans Moser or Gisela Wer District up there.

On December 12, 1923, Ida Roland played the title role in the premiere of Hans Kaltneker's mystery "The Sister" the lesbian Ruth on the Renaissance stage .

Josef Jarno ran the theater from 1925 to 1931 and committed audience favorites such as his wife Hansi Niese , Maria Eis , Lucie Englisch and Willy Trenk-Trebitsch .

In the period between 1932 and 1938 the theater remained closed, apart from a few occasional events. The following season was directed by Felix Lapernikus-Gerald, and operettas were also performed, such as Odo Nowosad-Nissen's Der Himmel auf Erden or Nico Dostal's Eva in evening dress in 1943 . and Triangle in Love (1944, directed by Hans Olden ).

In the summer of 1946 Alexander Kowalewski performed the operetta Der benevolent Antonius by Jara Beneš with great success. In 1947 Fritz Habeck was dramaturge and deputy director of the Renaissance stage. In 1947 Franz Pfaudler directed Nikolai Gogol's " Der Revisor " with Wolf Albach-Retty and Hans Olden (set design: Gustav Manker ). In 1948 Leon Epp leased the stage as an additional venue for entertainment theater. This year, Oskar Karlweis, who had returned from exile, received a euphoric reception. The expected income did not materialize and Epp had to hand over the theater to Paul Löwinger as early as 1949 , who turned it into the venue for the Löwinger stage . There were also guest performances on the stage, for example by Ludwig Stössel in 1950 or by Harry James in 1957 .

From autumn 1957 the theater space was also used alternately by the Theater der Jugend. Since 1970 the Renaissance theater has been run solely by the Theater der Jugend. The technical equipment is unique for children's and youth theater and is suitable for both spoken theater and music productions.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mirjam Langer: Vienna Theater after the “Anschluss” in 1938 (PDF; 831 kB) p. 39.
  2. ↑ z. B. German Stage Yearbook . Cooperative of German Stage Members, Berlin 1930.
  3. ^ Volksbühne For the first time Nestroy Kampl. In:  Reichspost , December 14, 1912, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rpt
  4. ^ A b Ludwig Ullmann: One year Vienna theater. In: Jacques Jaeger (Ed.): Wiener Almanach. Yearbook for Literature, Art and Public Life. 25th year. Moritz Perles, Vienna / Leipzig 1917/18, p. 172.
  5. ^ Rudolf Linden: The "Theater City" 1918. A look back and a look ahead. In: Jacques Jaeger (Ed.): Wiener Almanach. Yearbook for Literature, Art and Public Life. 28th year. Moritz Perles, Vienna / Leipzig 1919, p. 232.
  6. ↑ Alfred Neugebauer
  7. ↑ a b Part of Hans Moser's estate in the Vienna Library  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.katalog.wienbibliothek.at  
  8. ↑ Vienna Theater Pictures Renaissance Stage. In:  Wiener Bilder , October 18, 1925, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb
  9. ^ Novelty on the Renaissance stage. In:  Wiener Bilder , December 13, 1925, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb
  10. ↑ Part of Karl Wimmer's estate in the Austrian Cabaret Archive ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kabarettarchiv.at
  11. ^ Paulus Manker : "The theater man Gustav Manker . Search for traces." Amalthea, Vienna 2010 ISBN 978-3-85002-738-0
  12. ↑ Alexander Kowalewski died In: Rathauskorrespondenz from June 2, 1948.
  13. ^ Fritz Habeck In: Austria Forum
  14. ↑ Ursula Liebl: Memory of the actor Oskar Karlweis. Hoffnungsfroher Humor In: Wiener Zeitung of March 24, 2000 (accessed November 6, 2013).
  15. ↑ 80th birthday of Ludwig Stössel In: Rathauskorrespondenz from February 9, 1963.
  16. ↑ October 21, 1957

literature

  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 (Volume 5), p. 659.
  • Ingrid Pötz: On the history of the theater in Neubaugasse. Volksbühne - Renaissance stage . Diploma thesis at the University of Vienna 1986 [1] .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 4 ″  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 57 ″  E