Amberg City Theater

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Amberg City Theater

The Amberg City Theater is a multi-discipline guest theater in the Bavarian city of Amberg ( Upper Palatinate administrative region ).

history

After the secularization of the Franciscan monastery in 1803, a classicist rank theater was built into the walls of the original Gothic monastery church. In the years 1846/47 and 1862/63 it was redesigned several times. After the Second World War , the theater was played again with its own ensemble until 1953. An expert opinion by the Bavarian Insurance Chamber led to the closure due to the risk of fire. For 25 years the hall of the Kolping House St. Josef ("Josefshaus") served as a provisional venue for the Amberg theater business, which is now based on touring theater. The planned sale of the building prevented an appraisal u. a. of the monument office, which gave the city theater the title “absolutely worth preserving”. After renovations in which the auditorium and stage were rotated 180 degrees, the theater was reopened as a guest theater on October 12, 1978. In 2002 and 2003 further renovations took place, for example the main light signal box was renewed and the barrel vault was renovated.

cooperation

The Landgraf concert directorate , with whom there has been a cooperation since 1994, designs the entire theater schedule with around 40 performances in the areas of drama, music and dance theater. This also made remarkable premieres possible in Amberg, e. B. the world premiere of the musical "Mahalia" with Joan Orleans in 1998 and the German premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's "The Distant Voice" with Susanne Uhlen and Carsten Klemm in 2009.

game schedule

In the theater season from September to May around 20 productions, each with 2 performances, are shown, including around 10 plays. The touring theater business also brought film and television actors such as Doris Kunstmann , Ilja Richter or Désirée Nick , Markus Majowski and Rufus Beck to Amberg. In addition, the cultural department of the city of Amberg is also organizing a series of concerts with subscription, studio and special concerts.

literature

  • Ute Fuchs: On the history of the Amberg City Theater (1803 to 1978). A documentary about 175 years of theater in a small German town. Dissertation, University of Vienna (Alma Mater Rudolfina), Vienna 1988, OCLC 630759506 .
  • Manfred Knedlik: The power of the stage. On the theater history of Amberg in the early modern period. In: Johannes Laschinger (Ed.): Ammenberg becomes Amberg. Historical lectures from 975 years of Amberg history (= contributions to the history and culture of the city of Amberg. Volume 5). Amberg City Archives, Amberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-924707-09-5 , pp. 104-141.

Web links

Commons : Stadttheater Amberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadttheater on the homepage of the city of Amberg, accessed on February 26, 2018
  2. ^ The Amberg City Theater and its building and theater history. Published for reopening on October 12, 1978. Publisher: City of Amberg

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '44 "  N , 11 ° 51' 14"  E