Schauspielhaus Graz

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Schauspielhaus Graz - exterior view
View of the stage of the Schauspielhaus Graz
Director Iris Laufenberg
HOUSE TWO
HOUSE THREE
foyer
Foyer in the 1st tier

The Schauspielhaus Graz is an Austrian spoken theater . It is part of the city ​​crown of Graz and is located in the first district of the Inner City .

history

"A well-ordered drama is a true school of morals , politeness and language", it is said in an appeal by Count Orsini and the police chief to the Styrian estates in 1770. After lengthy financial complications, the construction work for a new theater building in Graz was started on the 24th Commenced October 1774. After a construction period of less than two years, the new theater was opened on September 9, 1776. It was a rural theater, which was planned and built by the then Graz “landscape master mason” and later court architect Joseph Hueber . During this time, Emanuel Schikaneder was also part of the ensemble for one season. From 1791–1797 Joseph Bellomo (1753–1833) was director of the Grätzer Estates National Theater , 1823–33 Johann August Stöger .

The newly renovated theater burned down completely in the morning hours of Christmas Day 1823 except for the main and middle walls, but was rebuilt according to the plans of the Imperial and Royal Building Councilor Peter von Nobile . Until the end of January 1824, performances were held in the country house and in two amateur theaters. From January 29, 1824 to October 3, 1825, the performances took place in the auxiliary theater that was newly set up in the state riding school in Reitschulgasse (today: Mondscheingasse 3) . Immediately after the fire in 1823, the stalls started building a new theater in the same place. The small and large ballrooms were torn down and a free space in front of the theater was gained, today's Freiheitsplatz. At the same time, the so-called Suppansche Garden, which lay between the theater and Karmeliterplatz and bordered the large ballroom with a retaining wall, was abandoned and Hartiggasse was created as a connection between Franzensplatz and Karmeliterplatz. The opening of Franzensplatz resulted in the development of the main front of the theater against it, while the main entrance in Hofgasse was retained because the ground floor masonry was relatively undamaged and the connecting passage with the Hofburg ended here, hence the development of the vestibules had to be relocated to the Hofgasse side. So the entrance on the main front was always only a side entrance, as the longitudinal axis of the stage and auditorium had to be perpendicular to Hofgasse due to the location of the building site.

Austria was in a period of inflation and raising the necessary funds was difficult. The funds were covered by the sale of the last estates cannons stored in Trieste to the King of Naples, from the proceeds of the "Rohitscher Sauerbrunnenoperationskassa" and advances from the estate deposit fund. Theater director Stöger took on the design of the building plan. However, Stöger's plans were sent to the court architect Peter von Nobile in Vienna for correction. This only had to make a few technical changes. In addition to the two named, Professor Meißner designed the heating systems in Vienna. In order to reduce the risk of fire, the Meißner apparatus was installed as an air-heating heating system for the entire building . The establishment of the machines was taken over by the then famous Viennese theater machinist Adam Roller. The supervision of the building was in the hands of Baron Mandell, the senior construction assistant Johann Nepomuk Edler von Ortenhoffer and the senior building assistant Perschon. Peter von Nobile asked Baron Mandell regularly about the progress of construction and mentioned in a letter dated May 18, 1824: “His Majesty viewed everything with the highest quality, dissected the system of decoration with admirable insight and declared himself in favor of the drawing which the Has a character of rational simplicity in itself, and noted hiebey that the choice is yours (the stands). "

On October 4, 1825, the name day of Emperor Franz I , the estate theater (later: Landschaftliches Theater , then: Landestheater ) was reopened (address from 1838: Franzensplatz; from 1918 or 1938: Freiheitsplatz 7). On the opening evening the following were given: Styria and art as a poetic prelude by Karl Gottfried von Leitner and, as the main piece, the tragedy (in five acts) Weißröschen (also: Turturell ) by Joseph Christian von Zedlitz .

The most famous actor in this era of new beginnings was Johann Nestroy , who died on Elisabethstrasse in Graz .

In 1887 the house was renamed Stadttheater , after the opening of the new Stadttheater in 1899 it was renamed Theater am Franzensplatz , and after the First World War it was changed to the Schauspielhaus Graz .

In 1953 the house was closed for reasons of building control. After renovations while preserving the historical building stock and with a new stage building, it was reopened in 1964 with " Hamlet " - the main role played by Helmuth Lohner . Since then, the theater has been committed to spoken theater and has become an integral part of the Styrian cultural scene. The last major renovation of the entire stage technology took place in the summer breaks of 1999 and 2000. During these years, the architecturally renewed foyer was also gradually adapted to contemporary requirements. In addition to building one (main stage) with 540 seats, building two (former rehearsal stage with around 100 seats) and building three (former level 3 with around 50 seats) will also be used. In the theater there is also the Redoutensaal as an event location.

From 2000 to 2006 the Schauspielhaus Graz was under the direction of drama director Matthias Fontheim , from the 2004/05 season he was managing director. Matthias Fontheim then moved to the Mainz State Theater. From the 2006/07 season to the 2014/15 season , Anna Badora was the theater director and previous general manager of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , Artistic Director in Graz. Under Badora, the Schauspielhaus Graz was accepted into the UTE (Union des Théâtres de l'Europe) in 2008 as the only Austrian theater.

In the 2015/16 season, Iris Laufenberg took over as managing director of the Schauspielhaus Graz. Georg Kandolf is the artistic director , Karla Mäder is the lead dramaturge. The Schauspielhaus Graz is part of the ETC ( European Theater Convention ), the stages have been renamed HAUS EINS, HAUS ZWEI and HAUS DREI . The program is rich in topics, playing styles and approaches. It ranges from monumental drama to classic comedy and diverse contemporary drama.

Architecture and design

The three-story building block has a late Classicist facade design with two-story pillar arcades and cast-iron masks of comedy and tragedy next to a lyre on the side facing Hofgasse. The west side to the Freiheitsplatz has a frontispiece and an arbor . In addition, there is a building inscription board, dated 1776, and five sandstone relief coats of arms of the governor and some decreed: for the governor at the time, Count Herberstein, the middle, largest shield with rafters; to the right and left of it the coats of arms of Count Anton Inzaghi (divided into four with three striding lions and the double-headed eagle above) and Count Karl von Trauttmannsdorff (with the rose in the heart label), on the far right the coat of arms of Joseph Edlen von Lendenfeld (with the diagonally arranged sheaves) and finally on the left with two ovals, the coat of arms of the Stainzer provost Johann de Angelis. These stone coats of arms were attached to the Freiheitsplatz side of the theater after the last renovation of the Graz playhouse in 1964.

The classicist auditorium of HAUS EINS has the type of a box theater .

A tapestry (1964) based on a design by Dina Kerciku can be seen in the lobby of the foyer.

present

particularities

The directors Nikolaus Habjan , Alexander Eisenach , Anita Vulesica , Michael Schilhan , Suna Gürler , Helmut Köpping , Sandy Lopicic , Lily Sykes , Claudia Bauer , Volker Hesse , Bernadette Sonnenbichler , Stephan Rottkamp , Yael Ronen , Viktor Bodó , Peter Konwitschny worked at the Schauspielhaus Graz , Theu Boermans , Cora Frost , Franz Wittenbrink and Elmar Goerden . Actors such as Barbara Petritsch , Margarethe Tiesel , Babett Arens , Johannes Silberschneider , Nikolaus Habjan, Michael Ostrowski , Gerhard Liebmann and Peter Simonischek performed.

In 2010 the house was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen for the production The Hour because we didn't know about each other . The theater has made guest appearances at the Theater in der Josefstadt , in Bucharest , Parma , Bozen , Budapest and Moscow . The hour when we didn't know about each other was awarded the Russian theater prize "Golden Mask" as the best foreign production in 2010.

The production Der Fall Dorfrichter Adam (director: Boris Nikitin ) was invited to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt in 2011 and performed there on May 5, 2011. In 2014 she was invited to Heidelberg for Yael Ronen's No Man 's Land , which she developed together with the ensemble. In 2014 Boris Nikitin's Graz premiere Be not you yourself at the First Swiss Theatertreffen and Oliver Kluck's adaptation of Andreas Altmann's biography The shitty life of my father, the shitty life of my mother and my own shitty youth was shown at the 2015 Autorentheatertage in Berlin.

In the nine years of Intendanz Badora, 175 productions were staged, 111 of which were contemporary pieces (premiered / written after 1945).

Opening production 15/16 "Merlin or Das wüsten Land"; Director: Jan-Christoph Gockel

Merlin or Das wüsten Land , the inaugural production of the Laufenberg artistic director, wasinvitedto the International May Festival at the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden in 2016. The production “Lupus in Fabula” was invited to the Autorentheatertage Berlin in 2016 and to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2016as part of the “NachSpielPreis”. Iris Laufenberg's first season brought two nominations for the Schauspielhaus Graz for the Austrian Nestroy Theater Prize . For the portrayal of the Caliban in William Shakespeare's Der Sturm , ensemble member Julia Graefner received the award in the category of best youngsters in 2016. Furthermore, the production Kasimir und Karoline (directed by Dominic Friedel) was nominated in the category Best Federal State Performance. The Nestroy Prize 2017 in the category “Best State Performance” went to the production “The Order: Dantons Tod” based on Heiner Müller and Georg Büchner and directed by Jan-Christoph Gockel. In the category Best Play - Author's Prize , Ayad Akhtar was also honored in 2017 for Geächtet at the Schauspielhaus Graz.

In 2018 the play Böhm (director: Nikolaus Habjan, author: Paulus Hochgatterer ) was invited to the Bregenz Festival . On November 7, 2018, the piece had its German premiere at the Euro-Scene Festival in Leipzig . In February 2019, the Böhm production gave two performances at the Residenztheater in Munich . Böhm was also nominated for the Nestroy Prize 2018 in the category “Best State Performance”.

Nikolaus Habjan plays "Böhm"

In May 2019 the Schauspielhaus Graz was invited to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt with the play Erinnya by Clemens J. Setz , directed by Claudia Bossard . This was followed on May 29 by the invitation to the 21st International Puppet Theater Festival at the Stadttheater Fürth with the play Böhm (director: Nikolaus Habjan , author: Paulus Hochgatterer). The film and theater project The Revolution Eats Its Children! by Jan-Christoph Gockel and Ensemble was shown on June 6, 2019 as part of the Autorentheatertage at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. Furthermore, the Schauspielhaus Graz was invited to show the world premiere of the production calm blood by Eleonore Khuen-Belasi in the staging of Clara Weyde in the Kammerspiele at the Deutsches Theater Berlin as part of the long night of the authors on June 8, 2019 . Finally, the production started again The revolution eats its children! invited to Cologne for June 2019 as part of the Africologne Festival .

In the 2019/20 season, guest performances followed with the Böhm production at the Theater am Kirchplatz TaK Liechtenstein, the Vienna Burgtheater , the Ruhr Festival Recklinghausen and the International May Festival at the Wiesbaden State Theater as well as with the production The Who and the What (director: Jan Stephan Schmieding) at the Theater Casino Zug . The film and theater project The Revolution Eats Its Children! by Jan-Christoph Gockel and Ensemble was awarded the Nestroy Prize 2019 in the category Best Federal State Performance on November 24, 2019 in the Theater an der Wien . The film developed for this piece was in the competition for the Big Diagonale Prize in the feature film category at the Diagonale 2020 film festival, which was ultimately canceled . This season, numerous other invitations followed that could no longer be realized due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among other things, the production Schleifpunkt for the Autorentheatertage in Berlin, Bookpink for the Mülheimer Theatertage , the production everyone (dies) for the Heidelberger Stückemarkt , the Sterntagebücher for the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen and the performance Ich, Tatortkommissarinnen at the Sophiensæle Berlin.

Nestroy Prize

The Schauspielhaus Graz was represented several times with nominations and prizes for the Nestroy Prize .

year Surname Staging category Won nomination
2001 Dimiter Gotscheff The powder keg Best director X
2001 Monique Schwitter The presidents Best offspring - female X
2003 Matthias Fontheim The wide country Best director X
2003 Monique Schwitter Woyzeck and Janis Joplin Best Actress X
2008 Andrea Wenzl Alice Best Actress X
2008 Viktor Bodó Alice Best equipment X
2009 Viktor Bodó The hour when we didn't know about each other Best director X
2009 Verena Lercher Builder Solness Best offspring X
2009 Peter Simonischek Builder Solness Best actor X
2010 Martina Stilp Peep show Best Actress X
2010 Raimund Orfeo Voigt Burns Best offspring X
2011 Claudius Koerber Hamlet & Peer Gynt Best offspring X
2011 Viktor Bodó The master and Margarita Best federal state performance X
2012 Johannes Silberschneider Ghosts in Princeton Best actor X
2012 Steffi Krautz Ghosts in Princeton Best Actress X
2012 Daniel Kehlmann Ghosts in Princeton Best Piece - Author Award X
2012 Anna Badora Ghosts in Princeton Best federal state performance X
2012 Claudius Koerber Audience award X
2013 Yael Ronen Hakoah Vienna Best federal state performance X
2014 Birgit Stöger no mans land Best Actress X
2014 Johannes Silberschneider Chop wood Best actor X
2014 Krystian Lupa Chop wood Best director X
2015 Nikolaus Habjan The misunderstanding Best federal state performance X
2016 Dominic Friedel Casimir and Karoline Best federal state performance X
2016 Julia Graefner The storm Best female offspring X
2017 Jan-Christoph Gockel The order / Danton's death Best federal state performance X
2017 Ayad Akhtar Outlaw Best Piece - Author Award X
2018 Nikolaus Habjan Bohm Best federal state performance X
2019 Jan-Christoph Gockel The revolution is eating its children! Best federal state performance X

literature

  • 100 years of the Graz theater . Leykam Publishing House, Graz 1925.
  • A theater for Graz. Using the manuscript "Theater in Graz" from the estate of Robert Baravalle. Leykam-Verlag, 1976, Graz.
  • Schauspielhaus Graz - artistic director Anna Badora . Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95749-006-3 .

Web links

Commons : Schauspielhaus Graz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Pechmann, Gerhard Schwarz: Joseph Bellomo, theater director. In: graz.at. City of Graz, accessed on October 19, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b The new theater in Grätz. In:  Allgemeine Theaterzeitung and original newspaper for art, literature, music, fashion and social life , No. 237/1834 (XXVII. Year), November 27, 1834, p. 947 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / thz.
  3. ↑ Robert Engele: “The theater is on fire!” In: austria-forum.org. Retrieved November 13, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Theater in Grätz. In:  Der Aufmerksame , January 3, 1824, p. 4 (unpaginated). (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gra.
  5. ↑ a b News. (...) From Grätz. In:  General theater newspaper and entertainment newspaper for friends of art, literature and social life , No. 139/1825 (18th year), November 19, 1825, p. 570 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / thz.
  6. ↑ Our great-grandfathers' walks and excursions. II. In:  Grazer Tagblatt. Organ of the German People's Party for the Alpine Countries , morning edition. No. 293/1902 (XII. Year), October 24, 1902, p. 1 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gtb.
  7. ^ Theatrical news. In:  Grätzer Zeitung , No. 35/1824, March 1, 1824, p. 19 (unpaginated), left column. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gra.
  8. ↑ 100 Years of the Graz Schauspielhaus, Leykam Verlag, Graz. 1925. pp. 69f.
  9. ↑ 100 Years of the Graz Schauspielhaus, Leykam Verlag, Graz. 1925. p. 71.
  10. ↑ 100 Years of the Graz Schauspielhaus, Leykam Verlag, Graz. 1925. p. 72.
  11. ↑ Theater in Grätz. In:  Grätzer Zeitung , No. 160/1825, October 8, 1825, p. 4 (unpaginated), left column. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gra.
  12. ↑ News. From Grätz. In:  Allgemeine Theaterzeitung and entertainment newspaper for friends of art, literature and social life , No. 140/1825 (18th year), November 22, 1825, p. 574 ff. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / thz.
  13. ^ Graz: Schauspielhaus. In: andreas-praefcke.de. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  14. ↑ The Schauspielhaus Graz. In: schauspielhaus-graz.com. Archived from the original on July 1, 2017 ; accessed on April 28, 2019 .
  15. ^ Walter Zitzenbacher: A theater for Graz. Using the manuscript "Theater in Graz" from the estate of Robert Baravalle. Leykam-Verlag, 1976, Graz. P. 55f.
  16. ^ Schweigert: Dehio Graz. P.56.
  17. ↑ Boris Nikitin. In: goethe.de. Goethe-Institut, accessed on November 13, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Christa Dietrich: There is nothing to gloss over. In: vn.at . March 31, 2018, accessed April 13, 2018 .
  19. ^ Robert Braunmüller: Residenztheater Nikolaus Habjan plays "Böhm". February 5, 2019, accessed October 5, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Festival invitation: “Erinnya” to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt. In: schauspielhaus-graz.com. February 22, 2019, accessed October 19, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Schauspielhaus Graz / Nikolaus Habjan | Austria: Böhm. In: figurentheaterfestival.de. Retrieved August 4, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Guest performance at the Schauspielhaus Graz - The revolution eats its children! A film and theater project by Jan-Christoph Gockel and ensemble. In: deutschestheater.de. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Coproduction with the Schauspielhaus Graz - Calm Blood by Eleonore Khuen-Belasi. In: deutschestheater.de. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
  24. ^ Susanne Hengesbach: 5th Africologne Festival in the Agnesviertel - philosopher Achille Mbembe comes to Cologne. In: ksta.de. April 30, 2019, accessed November 27, 2019 .

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