City Theater (Kempten)
The city theater is a listed theater in Kempten (Allgäu) .
history
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First mentioned in a document in 1392, today's theater building was initially used as a salt store. It was not until 1525 that the building came into the possession of the imperial city of Kempten, after it had been dealt with by Prince Abbot Sebastian von Breitenstein. In 1654 it was played for the first time by local craftsmen and then increasingly established itself as a comedy house. The first renovation was carried out in 1754. It was not until 1801 that a theater company was founded. Boxes were built in 1812–1813, and in 1827 the painter Franz Sales Lochbihler converted the building into a theater with three tiers, including the ground floor. He also created a painted theater curtain with the motif of Apollo and the dancing muses, which was later painted over several times, most recently by Franz Weiss . During times of war, the theater was temporarily interrupted because the building was used as an arms store or cinema . In 1896, 1954–1956 and 1963–1964, the historic building was renovated and renovated again. In 1956 the top gallery was removed. After that, the theater had 638 seats. The Kempten architect Sepp Zwerch provided the plans .
From 2006 to 2007 the city theater was completely refurbished, expanded with a glass foyer and brought up to the latest technical standards. The theater received new seating and a reverberation system. The original condition of 1827 has been restored in the theater hall. The support group “Addition” collected a total of one million euros for the renovation. On July 4th, 2007 the support group “encore” was transformed into the Theater- und Musikgesellschaft e. V. (TuM), a registered association that financially supports theater operations.
For a long time the city theater was operated purely as a play theater. Voluntary members of the Kempten theater community took care of organizing the performances of guest theater stages. Since it reopened in 2007, the theater has been called Theater in Kempten (TiK), is a non-profit company, has full-time management and offers in-house and co-productions as well as guest performances by external theaters. Since 2016 there has been a permanent small ensemble with the actors Julia Jaschke and Hans Piesbergen .
Others
In 2007 , the artist Stephan Huber installed a cloud sculpture hanging between the building sections above the Theaterplatz , from which an artificial rain shower pours every hour on the hour. The floating fountain is titled Cumulus: Cambodunum (from Cumulus , the heap cloud, and Cambodunum , the name of the Roman forerunner settlement of Kemptens).
World premieres since 2007
- 2007: Cumulus Currendus
- 2007: Perfect Room
- 2009: The homely
- 2009: Mandela - Das Musical (co-production with A.gon Theaterproduktion )
- 2009: recipient moved
- 2010: Together you are less alone
- 2010: Match Point
- 2011: Two's a Couple, Three's a Crowd
- 2012: Paradise for Beginners
- 2012: Villa Irrsinn (co-production with the Landestheater Tübingen )
- 2013: Flora
- 2015: Failed
- 2016: Jihad One-Way (co-production with Theater Hof )
Artistic directors since 2007
- Peter Baumgardt 2007–2009
- Nikola Stadelmann 2009–2015
- Silvia Armbruster since 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical theater buildings. Catalog. Part 1. Western federal states , (reports on research and practice of monument preservation in Germany; 3). Hanover 1991, p. 35
- ↑ Theater & Music Society (TuM) | Theater in Kempten . In: Theater in Kempten . ( theaterinkempten.de [accessed December 27, 2017]).
literature
- Birgit Kata (Red.): Curtain up! 400 years of theater in Kempten . Ed .: City of Kempten. Likias, Friedberg 2007, ISBN 3-9807628-8-2 .
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 39.6 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 4.6 ″ E