City Theater Bern
The Stadttheater Bern at Kornhausplatz 20 in Bern houses a three-part stage for opera , drama and ballet .
Today's house has existed since 1903. At the opening, Tannhäuser was performed by Richard Wagner , introduced by a ceremony by Joseph Victor Widmann , in which Mrs. Berna appeared as an allegorical figure alongside Apollo and the Muses .
Since 2012, the Bern City Theater has been part of the new institution «Konzert Theater Bern», which includes the Bern Symphony Orchestra as well as the City Theater. In this form, it is a unique organizational model and four-branch house for Switzerland .
building
After an architectural competition for a new building on the square of the old riding school had already been unsatisfactory in 1897, the neo-baroque building - financed by the Berner Stadt-Theater corporation founded in 1896 - was built by the architect René von Wurstemberger from 1901 and opened on September 25, 1903. The city theater replaced the Hôtel de Musique on Theaterplatz, which had previously been used for a century and now houses the Du Théâtre restaurant .
On October 19, 1903, the shareholders of the stock corporation decided to sell the theater to the city of Bern; the company was not finally liquidated until April 1917.
Directors
- 1903–1906: Georg Kiedaisch
- 1906–1907: Alfred Stender-Stefani
- 1907–1908: Julius Bergmann
- 1908–1914: Benno Koebke
- 1914–1920: Albert Kehm
- 1920–1925: Karl Ludwig Peppler
- 1925–1931: Hans Kaufmann
- 1931–1934: Karl Lustig
- 1934–1937: Hans Zimmermann
- 1937–1946: Eugen Keller
- 1947–1953: Ekkehard Kohlund
- 1953–1958: Stephan Beinl
- 1958–1959: Albert Nef
- 1959–1960: Raoul Alster / Lois Egg / Rudolf Hesse
- 1960–1979: Walter Oberer
- 1979–1981: Wolfgang Zörner
- 1981–1987: Peter Borchardt / Ernst Gosteli / Edgar Kelling
- 1987–1990: Philippe de Bros
- 1990-1991: Edgar Kelling
- 1991-2007: Eike Gramss
- 2007–2012: Marc Adam
- 2012–2018: Stephan Märki
Contemporary history
After internal quarrels between Intendant Märki and Drama Director Cihan Inan because of a dispute regarding roles, the conflict was resolved by the resignation of the Intendant in July 2018. In order to be able to "bring calm and continuity into the house", the Board of Trustees offered Inan a contract extension for two years. The theater director extended under the new circumstances.
Well-known former and current actors and singers in the ensemble
The artists who have already appeared in the city theater include: a .: Erich Aberle , Robin Adams, Ladislaus Anderko, Karin Anselm , Peter Arens , Wilfried Baasner , Agnes Baltsa , Ruth Baldor, Klara Barlow , Friedhelm Becker, Maria Becker , Richard Bedel , André Benndorf, Theodor Bitzos, Ingrid Bjoner , Peter Binder , William Blankenship , Kurt Böhme , Christian Boesch , Inge Borkh , Renato Bruson , Grace Bumbry , Paul Burkhard , José Carreras , Lisa della Casa , Scipio Colombo , Rudolf Constantin, Fiorenza Cossotto , Alberto Cupido , Josef Danegger , Ratko Delorko, Waltraud Demmer, Helga Dernesch , Plácido Domingo , Eva Maria Duhan, Hellmuth Ebbs, Harald Ek, Uli Eichenberger, Wolfgang Fassler , Gottfried Fehr, Willy Frey, Helmut Förnbacher , William Forney, Hansjoachim Frick , Erich Frohwein, Ursula Füri-Bernhard, Barbara Gilbert , Heidi Maria Glössner , Elsbeth Gmür, Mathias Gnädinger , Käthe Gold , Heinrich Gretler , Günter Gube , Hedda Heusser, Maresa Hörbiger , Mirjana Irosch , Margarete Jacobs, Silvia Jost , Jacob Keller, Richard Kogel, Dagmar K oller , Hanns Krassnitzer, Hansy von Krauss, Sybille Krumpholz, David Kuebler , Albert Kunz, Benno Kusche , Krisztina Laki , Eva Lind , Walter Lederer, Waldemar Leitgeb, Alfred Lohner, Walo Lüönd , Spiro Makri, Georg Mark-Czimeg, Edith Mathis , Franz Matter , Glado von May, Krikor Melikyan, Günther Missenhardt, Martha Mödl , Alexander Moissi , Morris Morgan, Hans-Heinz Moser , Fridolin Mosbacher, Melitta Muszely , Noëmi Nadelmann , Jessye Norman , Julia Pall, Enzia Pircher, Liselotte Pulver , Will Quadflieg , Nelly Rademacher, Wolfgang Reichmann , Nello Santi , Harald Serafin , Christine Schäfer , Elvira Schalcher , Margarethe Schell-von Noé, Maria Schell , Rolf Schimpf , Uwe Schönbeck, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Stefan Skodler , Hannes Schmidhauser , Friedrich Schütze , Adolph Spalinger , Hans Stöckl, Isabel Strauss, Stefan Suske , Helga Thieme, Heinz Trixner , Toni von Tuason, Heinz Weihmann, Ortrun Wenkel , Gerty Wiessner, Maria-Luise Willi , Elisabeth Witzmann, Zbyslav Wozniak and Ils e Zielstorff .
The Stadttheater Bern employs around 300 permanent and part-time employees as well as between 50 and 180 artists from over 25 nations.
Vidmarhallen venue
At the beginning of Marc Adam's directorship, a new venue was opened in Köniz : Since 2007, the Vidmarhallen have housed the costume collection (with rental), two venues for drama and ballet, as well as the ballet hall.
literature
- Marco Badilatti: City Theater Bern, Bern BE . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , pp. 1721-1723.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ konzerttheaterbern.ch ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2012 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.
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^ Andreas Hauser, Peter Röllin, Brechtold Weber: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture , 1850–1920 . Bern. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): INSA . tape 2 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-280-01716-5 , p. 498 , col. 2 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-3534 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on November 28, 2016]). The inventory of newer Swiss architecture has rotated numbers in the year of the competition with 1879, see NN: Competitions . New city theater in Bern. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape
30 , no. 5 . A. Waldner, Zurich 1897, p. 40 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on November 28, 2016]). - ↑ professionals.klassik.com
- ↑ Cihan Inan remains acting director in Bern: return with vision. , Nachtkritik.de of September 14, 2018, accessed September 17, 2018.
- ↑ stadttheaterbern.ch ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2010 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.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 56 ′ 57.7 " N , 7 ° 26 ′ 51" E ; CH1903: six hundred thousand six hundred and seventy-five / 199810