Lower Saxony State Theater Hanover

The Opera House on Opernplatz

The Lower Saxony State Theater Hanover is a multi-branch theater in Hanover sponsored by the State of Lower Saxony .

history

The opera house opened in 1852 as the Royal Court Theater . Theater and opera performances took place here. Julius von Platen was one of the first directors of the house . In 1918 it was renamed the Opera and Playhouse and was in the hands of the Prussian state . On January 1, 1921, it was handed over to the city of Hanover.

Schauburg , taken over by the city of Hanover in 1925 , around 1912

In 1925, the city took over the previously private Schauburg Theater in Hildesheimer Strasse and moved the theater there. Both houses were now called Städtische Bühnen Hannover . Yvonne Georgi was ballet master at the Städtische Bühnen from 1926 to 1931 and from 1954 to 1970, and Harald Kreutzberg was one of her preferred partners . Both venues were destroyed by the air raids on Hanover in World War II. In 1947 the brothers Hanns Lothar and Günther Neutze began their careers at the Städtische Bühnen .

The opera house reopened in 1950. The state of Lower Saxony now participated in the financing, and the municipal theaters were given the new name Landestheater Hannover . This was again renamed the Lower Saxony State Theater in 1970 . The state's funding for the State Theater was gradually increased to 100 percent until 1992.

While opera and ballet had their own house again, for decades drama had to be content with makeshift arrangements. It played in the Ballhof , the opera house and in the Theater am Aegi until the new theater was opened in 1992 on Prinzenstraße .

In 2007 the Junge Schauspiel Hannover was founded as part of the State Theater.

Divisions

The Acting Division today has the following venues:

Playhouse
Ballhof one
Ballhof two
Cumberland Gallery
Cumberland stage

The opera and ballet divisions play in the opera house .

The stage workshops for all houses are located in the Südstadt near the city library . The Hanover Theater Museum is located in the Schauspielhaus .

Playhouse
Ballhof one
Ballhof two
Stage workshops of the State Theater

literature

Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the City of Hanover , Volume 2 From the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0