State Theater Dresden

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The Dresdner Schauspielhaus, 2012

The Staatsschauspiel Dresden is a theater in Dresden that is run by the Free State of Saxony . It operates the playhouse and the small house . The Staatsschauspiel emerged in 1983 from the Dresden State Theater , which had its origins in the Royal Court Theater .

In the 2013/2014 season, 250,980 visitors attended the 848 performances at the Dresden State Theater. This corresponds to a total space utilization of 80.9 percent. 65 percent of the audience visited the theater, 32 percent the small house and 3 percent the palace in the large garden .

Playhouse

Between the opening and the Second World War

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the bourgeoisie of the city of Dresden was looking for a place of self-understanding and representation. In 1909 a theater association was founded, to which important personalities such as Lord Mayor Otto Beutler , Georg Arnhold , Karl August Lingner , Erwin Bienert (son of Gottlieb Traugott Bienert ) and others belonged. The theater association raised a large part of the construction costs of around 2.7 million marks .

After various plans and property speculations, the city of Dresden made the area on Ostra-Allee available to the Sächsischer Hof . The theater was built from 1911 to 1913 by William Lossow and his son-in-law Max Hans Kühne in the neo- baroque and art nouveau styles . As the building is in the immediate vicinity of the Zwinger , the exterior facing it was adapted to the architecture and provided with arcades and baroque decorative elements. Due to the narrowness of the property between the surrounding buildings, it was necessary to dispense with a side and a back stage. The technical director Adolf Linnebach realized the most modern stage system of the time with the (now listed) stage technology of the house, including large water- hydraulically operated lifts for the new type of retractable sliding stage . The stage floor was divided into three parts, the lifting platforms (18 × 6 meters) could be lowered individually. There was a distance of 12 meters between the lowest and highest point of the stage. When the house opened, it had a seating capacity of 1,312 in the stalls and three tiers.

General manager Nikolaus Graf von Seebach appointed the dramaturge Karl Zeiss , who had been working at the Dresden Court Theater since 1901, as artistic director of the theater. The opening of the “Neues Königliches Schauspielhaus” building took place on September 13, 1913 with the jubilee overture by Carl Maria von Weber , the Robert Giuskard fragment by Heinrich von Kleist and the one-act play Die Torgauer Heide by Otto Ludwig . Numerous directors from all over the German Empire, dignitaries of the city and authors associated with the court theater such as Gerhart Hauptmann , Stefan Zweig and Hugo von Hofmannsthal attended the opening .

After the November Revolution and the abdication of the Saxon King the Royal Court Theater in 1918 to Saxon State Theater and in 1920 Staatstheater renamed.

Reich dramaturge Rainer Schlösser selected the Saxon State Theater as the venue for the 1st German Reich Theater Festival Week in May and June 1934. The patron was Joseph Goebbels , and Adolf Hitler also visited Dresden during the festival week.

On February 13 and 14, 1945, the theater was destroyed by the Allied air raids on Dresden, like all other theaters in the city. The hydraulic stage podiums remained largely undestroyed by the work of the machine master Franz Lommatzsch, who had moved the stage podiums to the lowest position as a precaution with every air alarm.

The theater during the GDR era

The theater before the facade renovation (2006)

With the active help of the theater staff, the clearance and rubble clearing began in May 1945. In December of the same year, it was decided to rebuild the house in a double complex for drama and opera. A total of 100,000 bricks, 20 tons of profile iron, 2,000 square meters of Rabitz fabric and important parts of the machinery were salvaged for reuse. The building officer Emil Leibold (design) and the architect Bruno Höppner (construction management) were responsible for the reconstruction .

The interior of the theater was largely redesigned. So the ceiling of the hall was raised and structured by dense rows of curved neon tubes . In addition, the third tier was designed as a clearly visible all-round balcony. In addition, the proscenium boxes disappeared , which made a larger stage opening possible. The ring parapets were no longer paneled with panels, but were given a continuous, stucco structure. The white plastered walls were given "can lid-like" inclusions over the entire area.

“Inside, a theater is to be created that corresponds to the spirit and requirements of our new time. [...] Today we want to build a true folk theater in which everyone feels at home [...] "

- Sächsische Volkszeitung from February 16, 1946

As early as September 22, 1948, the house was given its current purpose as the Great House of the Dresden State Theater for opera, ballet, drama and the Staatskapelle. The opening ceremony took place on September 22, 1948 with Beethoven's opera Fidelio and on September 23, 1948 with the play Simon Bolivar by Ferdinand Bruckner.

In 1983 there was an administrative separation between opera, ballet, Staatskapelle and drama. The Staatsschauspiel and the Dresden State Opera were created . On February 13, 1985, the musical divisions received their opera building, the Semperoper , restored to its new splendor . The large house became a theater again with the theater ensemble as the sole host.

The building, built out of rubble and with inadequate materials, became more and more in need of repair. The dilapidated roof was a constant threat. In the 1980s, patches were poorly repaired and refurbished bit by bit.

New box office foyer (since 2012)

The theater from 1990

A thorough, comprehensive renovation - mainly caused by the shutdown of the city's biggest polluter, the central heating power station and the necessary conversion of the entire heating system - was only possible after the fall of the Wall. On March 25, 1991, the first rock concert in the history of the house took place with the one-time performed revue "Il Grande Silencio - To Throne and Love" by the Friends of the Italian Opera , which was considered to be a for this time and for the history of the largest theater of the DDR courageous and daring experiment can be rated. To date, visitor numbers of over 1200 people have not been reached again. The FDIO should be followed by bands and performers like Die Toten Hosen , Udo Lindenberg and Nina Hagen . After several long periods of closure, the theater was closed for the most extensive reconstruction in its history from July 1993 to September 1995; The auditorium, which was destroyed in 1945, was almost restored to its historical form from 1913 and the stage machinery was brought up to the latest technical standards.

During the flood in August 2002 , the lower stage was flooded by the penetrating water from the Weißeritz and Elbe. As a result, the technical systems in it were destroyed. At the beginning of the 2003/2004 season, all damage was repaired.

In 2007, the exterior was renovated and repainted in white. At the beginning of the 2009/2010 season, connecting stairs were installed between the first and second tier foyers. These were not directly connected to each other before. After a redesign of the eastern corner of the building in 2012, ticket sales and the rights office were relocated there.

At the beginning of 2013, the State Opera and State Theater were reunited under the roof of the Saxon State Theater .

Location: 51 ° 3 ′ 7.8 ″  N , 13 ° 43 ′ 54.6 ″  E

Small house

Little house, 2011

The building on Glacisstraße in Dresden's Inner New Town , in which the Small House is located today, has a history that goes back further. The “Goldene Bretzel” inn has been located here since 1753, and after 1860 a hall, today's auditorium, was added. From 1864 to 1918 the building ensemble was used as a sound hall, then until 1923 as the dance palace “Nachtfalter” and then as a church (“ The First Church of Christ, Scientist ”).

With the approval of the parish, the first post-war performance of the Dresden State Theater ( Nathan the Wise ) could take place in this building on July 10, 1945 . Nathan was played by Erich Ponto , who was director of the Dresden theater until the end of 1946. In 1951, the State Theater signed a rental agreement with the parish and from then on used the house for opera and drama . In 1977 it was expanded into a theater. In 1987 and 1988 important construction measures were carried out to maintain the playability of the building for around five million marks . In 1992 fire protection measures were carried out. In the same year the theater got a new stage. However, six years later it was closed by order of the authorities. The reasons for this were static problems in the roof structure and in the outer walls as well as fire protection deficiencies that could not be remedied during the previous construction work. Therefore the facility was only used as a rehearsal stage until 2002. Meanwhile the necessary funds for an extensive reconstruction of the building were organized. Construction began in April 2003. On January 15, 2005, the theater reopened with the world premiere of The Man Without a Past . At the beginning of the 2009/2010 season, a movable grandstand was installed on the right-hand side stage, which has a maximum capacity of 132 spectators and allows several game variants.

Location: 51 ° 3 ′ 41.4 ″  N , 13 ° 45 ′ 3.7 ″  E

Directorships

Royal Court Theater

Saxon State Theater

  • 1918–1919 Nikolaus Graf von Seebach
  • 1921–1923 Alfred Reucker, honorary member
Erich Ponto (1945)

State Theater

State drama

Awards

media

literature

  • Michael Funke, Dieter Görne: Wolfgang Engel directs PENTHESILEA by Heinrich Kleist at the Dresden State Theater . In: Theater work in the GDR . tape 18 . Association of Theater Professionals / Brecht Center of the GDR, 1986, ISSN  0138-2322 .
  • Ingeburg Mätje: When it's all over, everything begins. From the history of the drama in Dresden . Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Dresden 1988, DNB  881323195 .
  • Emil Ulischberger: Drama in Dresden: A piece of theater history from the beginning to the present in words and images . 1st edition. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-362-00347-8 .
  • Dieter Görne: Wolfgang Engel staged Goethe's FAUST at the Dresden State Theater in 1990 . In: TheaterArbeit . Center for Theater Documentation and Information, 1991, ISSN  0941-1534 .
  • Uta Dittmann (Ed.): To be or not to be? - theatrical stories . Staatsschauspiel Dresden 1913 until today. 1st edition. Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Dresden 1995, DNB  946863288 .
  • That's enough for two lives - 10 years turn - where to? Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Bildungswerk Further Thinking e. V. Heinrich Böll Foundation, 1999, ISBN 3-930382-40-7 .
  • Theater in Dresden . In: Dresdner Hefte . No. 79 , 2004, ISBN 3-910055-73-7 .
  • Wilfried Schulz, Harald Müller, Felicitas Zürcher (ed.): Staatsschauspiel Dresden - 100 Years of the Schauspielhaus . The anniversary book. 1st edition. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-943881-01-1 .

Sound carrier

  • 2001: "Music in Germany 1950-2000" Music for drama, music for Faust. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1990 Jens Uwe Günther, Friends of Italian Opera (Director Wolfgang Engel) Label: RCA / Bertelsmann
  • 1991: Friends of the Italian Opera "Live in the Schauspielhaus Dresden"
  • 1989: Friends of the Italian Opera "Live Dresden" (recording of a live concert on rehearsal stage III)

Movies

Honorary members

Longtime actor

These actors have been in the ensemble for over 15 years:

Well-known actors and artists who worked at the playhouse

Web links

Commons : Schauspielhaus Dresden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Balance for the 2013/2014 season. (No longer available online.) Staatsschauspiel-dresden.de, July 11, 2013, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved July 11, 2014 . 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.staatsschauspiel-dresden.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Wilfried Schulz, Harald Müller, Felicitas Zürcher (eds.): Staatsschauspiel Dresden - 100 Years of the Schauspielhaus . The anniversary book. 1st edition. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-943881-01-1 .
  3. ↑ Dresden builds its own theater . At the construction site of the Dresden theater. In: Sächsische Volkszeitung . February 14, 1946, p. 6 .
  4. ↑ Bernd Gürtler: A social event of importance. In: Saxon newspaper . March 27, 1991.
  5. ↑ Bistra Klunker: About throne and love - Il Grande Silenzio. In: TAZ, the daily newspaper . April 9, 1991.
  6. ↑ Dresden State Theater awarded ZukunftsGut. Germany's first prize for institutional cultural mediation. Staatsschauspiel Dresden, accessed on September 14, 2018 .