State Theater Linz

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Landestheater Linz, Schauspielhaus Kammerspiele (right)
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The Linz State Theater is the largest theater in Upper Austria . The three venues are the Musiktheater am Volksgarten and also the Schauspielhaus (formerly Großes Haus ) and the Kammerspiele on the promenade in Linz . The theater is run by Upper Austria. Theater und Orchester  GmbH, which also operates the Bruckner Orchester Linz and is wholly owned by the State of Upper Austria through the Upper Austrian state holding.

history

Traveling troops appeared in the class riding school and in the ballroom on the promenade. In 1751 the Linz master builder Johann Matthias Krinner made a proposal to the estates to build their own theater building. The actual initiator of the theater was then state attorney (state governor deputy) Johann Franz Achaz von Stiebar . The seat Promenade 39, a converted warehouse, was only a stopgap solution from 1752 to 1786 for the frequent times when the municipal water theater on the Donaulände in the area of ​​today's Zollamtstraße was unusable due to floods. The Redoutensaal was converted into a theater hall in 1788 and was used for performances during the new theater building.

In the years 1801 to 1803, the Linz Redoutensäle at the foot of the Schlossberg were added to the rural theater and the facade of the entire building was renovated in the Empire style. Emperor Franz approved the plan for a new theater, and on its name day, October 4, 1803, the newly built rural theater was opened. The theater, which was initially unheated for cost reasons, had to remain closed in severe winters.

The theater was run by the state estates until 1848 . As early as 1824, however, this state theater flourished in a particularly heyday, although at that time every play had to be submitted to the censors for approval before the performance. With the revolution of 1848 censorship was abolished and Emperor Ferdinand promised complete freedom from censorship. In the years that followed, the repertoire included not only operas and plays, but also artistic interludes, which pushed the classical into the background.

In the 1920s, opera increasingly came to the fore and gained popularity with audiences. A piece by Bertolt Brecht was played here for the first time in Austria in 1923 . In the 1930s and 1940s, however, a crisis broke out for the theater due to the impoverishment of the former theater audience, the middle class; the younger people preferred the newly fashionable cinema. The city of Linz and the state of Upper Austria took over the sponsorship of the theater in the early 1950s.

According to the designs of the architect Clemens Holzmeister , the Kammerspiele were built between 1956 and 1958 with 421 seats and in 1957 the large house with 756 seats was rebuilt. In 1973 the u \ hof theater cellar ( later u \ hof: theater for young audiences) with 100 seats was added until the 2016/2017 season , and in 1998 the Eisenhand venue with a maximum of 170 seats, which was taken over by the Linz grandstand - Theater am Südbahnhofmarkt in 2013 . In the 2017/2018 season, the former orchestra rehearsal room on the promenade was opened as a new studio stage for drama and young theater, replacing the previous venue in u / hof.

In the summer of 2008, the listed facade of the Linz State Theater was given back the shade of yellow that the house had in 1803 according to an analysis by the preservationists. In 2008/2009, a separate entrance from the Landestheater to the Promenade underground car park was established so that visitors to the Kammerspiele and the Großer Haus can enter the theater with dry feet and barrier-free access (lift from the underground car park directly into the theater). For this purpose, the Kammerspiel forecourt was completely built with a cellar, and a glass vestibule was built as a new entrance to the Kammerspiele and a direct connection to the foyer of the Great House. The forecourt was redesigned with seating steps as a meeting area.

On April 11, 2013 the Linz Music Theater was opened at the Volksgarten in the center of Linz.

As a temporary theater stage, the ground floor was built over and played with an arena stage for 2 seasons (2014/2015 and 2015/2016). In 2016 the theater, especially the auditorium and foyer, was renovated. During this time, the Great Hall of the old building of the Anton Bruckner Private University was used as an alternative accommodation for the play production Das goldene Vlies by Franz Grillparzer . The reopening premiere of William Shakespeare's The Tempest took place on April 1, 2017.

management

Theater directors and artistic directors :

Venues

Musical theater

The Musiktheater am Volksgarten venue in the center of Linz opened on April 11, 2013. The opera, dance and musical ensemble have made their home there ever since.

Playhouse

The Great House on the Promenade has been known as the Schauspielhaus an der Promenade since September 2013 .

Chamber plays

The house of the Kammerspiele is attached directly to the theater.

Former venues

Until 2016/17 there was also the u \ hof: (later: Young Theater) in the Upper Austrian Kulturquartier.

From 1998/99 to 2012/13 the external Eisenhand venue was operated as a theater and experimental stage.

Theater operations

The multi- branch theater brings out around 35 new productions and up to 900 performances in the five categories opera , operetta , musical , drama , dance and young theater per season .

The Landestheater works closely with the Bruckner Orchestra, with a focus on the classical opera repertoire and a baroque cycle and a long-term study of children's opera.

Divisions

From the 1998/99 season to the end of the 2015/2016 season, the acting department was headed by Kainz Medal Prize winner Gerhard Willert . With the 2015/2016 season, Stephan Suschke , a former close employee of Heiner Müller , took over the position of drama director.

The ballet department was headed by the choreographer and director Jochen Ulrich , who died in 2012 and was a representative of magical dance realism. In addition to classical dance based on Martha Graham's technique, he also dealt with new dance creations. From the 2013/2014 season he was followed by the Taiwanese-born choreographer Mei Hong Lin , who most recently worked as a ballet director at the Darmstadt State Theater.

The musical division, which is unique in Austria (and in this form in German-speaking countries), was founded in 2013 under the direction of Matthias Davids and has since performed four to six productions per season with a permanent ensemble, guest actors and members of other divisions, mainly on the stages of the musical theater.

In 1998, the children's and youth theater division was made independent at the State Theater . The u \ hof: has an excellent national reputation. The long-time director Heidelinde Leutgöb went to the Schauspielhaus Hannover in the 2007/2008 season , her successor until the 2008/2009 season was Henry Mason, who was followed by Holger Schober in 2009/2010. From the 2011/2012 season, John F. Kutil was the director. At the u \ hof: Theater, the practical discussion with children and young people from the city of Linz is promoted. To this end, theater pedagogue Anke Held designed programs for schools in order to give children and young people access to the theater. As of the 2016/2017 season, the u \ hof: division will be renamed Young Theater. The new head is Nele Neitzke.

World premieres (selection)

  • 1942 - return to Mittenwald , operetta by Ludwig Schmidseder
  • 1944 - Linzer Torte , operetta by Ludwig Schmidseder
  • 1951 - Stories from the Salzkammergut , operetta by August Pepöck
  • 1952 - Girl from the Wachau , operetta by Ludwig Schmidseder
  • 1964 - Roulette of Hearts , operetta by Igo Hofstetter
  • 1968 - Everything speaks of Charpillon , operetta by Igo Hofstetter
  • 1989 - The Roaring Twenties , musical by Fridolin Dallinger
  • 2009 - Kepler , opera by Philip Glass
  • 2013 - Traces of the Lost , Opera by Philip Glass
  • 2016 - Terra Nova or the white life , opera by Moritz Eggert

literature

  • Josef Simbrunner: Linz theater from the beginning to the present - a foray into cultural history. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Linz 2014, issue 3/4, pp. 103–126, PDF on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at.
  • Josef Simbrunner: History of the Theater in Linz. 1501-2017. From “Ludus Dianae” to music theater in the park and to the theater. Linz 2017.
  • Michael Klügl (Ed.): Promenade 39. Das Landestheater Linz, 1803 to 2003. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7017-1365-0 .
  • Heinrich Wimmer: The Linz State Theater 1803–1958. In: Land Oberösterreich (Ed.): Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter. Born 1959, Volume 13, Linz 1958, ISSN  0029-7550 , pp. 1–205, pp. 1–7 (PDF; 600 kB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, pp. 7–98 (PDF; 7.5 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, pp. 99–205 (PDF; 10 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Regina Thumser: The Linz State Theater - Hitler's “Bridge to a More Beautiful World”? In: Ingrid Bauer (Ed.): Art - Communication - Power. Sixth Austrian Contemporary History Day, 2003. Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-7065-4038-X , pp. 48-53.
  • Mariana Fellermayr: The Linz State Theater as a Nazi theater . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, Vienna 2015.
  • Heinrich Wimmer: The Linz State Theater 1945–1951. In: Land Oberösterreich (Ed.): Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter. Born 1952, Volume 6, Linz 1952, ISSN  0029-7550 , pp. 189–207, online (PDF; 1.9 MB) in the OoeGeschichte.at forum.
  • Paths are made by walking them. Landestheater Linz 2006 to 2016. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95749-044-5 .
  • Manfred Brauneck , Gérard Schneilin (ed.): Theater Lexikon. Volume 1: Terms and eras, stages and ensembles. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1986, 5th completely revised new edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-55673-9 (= Rororo. Rowohlt's Encyclopedia 55673).

Web links

Commons : Landestheater Linz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Upper Austria. Theater und Orchester GmbH ( Memento of the original dated February 9, 2013 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. on the OÖ Landesholding website. Company Upper Austria. Theater und Orchester GmbH Commercial register data Creditreform / firmenabc.at. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landesholding.com
  2. ↑ a b c d Wimmer 1959, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Wimmer 1959, p. 6.
  4. ↑ Wimmer 1959, p. 9.
  5. ↑ a b Wimmer 1959, p. 7.
  6. ↑ a b c d e Michael Klügl: 200 Years of the Linzer Landestheater In: oepb.at ( Austrian Press Office ) from February 18, 2005, accessed on May 8, 2011.
  7. ↑ State Theater Linz. Theater newspaper. Issue September / October 2008. Landestheater, Linz 2008, ZDB -ID 2481193-2 .
  8. ↑ Linz theater renovation: Old Bruckner University as alternative quarters. nachricht.at , December 13, 2016, accessed on December 15, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Director Julius Laska †. In:  Tages-Post , Abendblatt (No. 194/1933), August 24, 1933, p. 2, top left (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / tpt
  10. ↑ Hermann Schneider becomes the new state theater director OÖN from October 9, 2014.
  11. ^ Nils Grosch, Elmar Juchem: The reception of the Broadway musical in Germany. Waxmann, Münster 2012.

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