City Theater Lindau
The Lindau City Theater is Lindau's municipal theater in Lake Constance . Opened in 1951, the house offers plays, opera and ballet productions from various stages in German-speaking countries, an international concert series with chamber concerts as well as cabaret and cabaret. The Lindau Marionette Opera is also located in the Lindau City Theater. The house has around 700 seats (parquet and two tiers) and an orchestra pit.
Architectural history of the theater
The Lindau City Theater is housed in a former monastery church. In the 13th century, barefoot monks came to Lindau and founded one of the first Franciscan monasteries north of the Alps. In 1241 the monastery was confirmed by Bishop Heinrich von Konstanz. At the end of the 13th century the western nave was enlarged and in 1380 the late Gothic choir was completed. The church received valuable fresco decorations, the fresco of the Last Judgment from 1516 by Mathis Miller has survived to this day on the south wall of today's stage. In the course of the Reformation, the monastery was dissolved in 1528 and the building became the property of the city. The church interior was partly used as a salt barn. In 1658 the Barfüßerkirche became the Evangelical Trinity Church. In 1747/49 the choir was separated from the nave. A ceiling was put in the choir. The Imperial City Library was housed on the ground floor. The Dreifaltigkeitskirche was closed in 1798 and the church interior served from then on as barracks, military and fire department stores and as a gym. From 1868 the building was used for cultural purposes. The concert hall was built in the upper choir, and in 1886/87 a theater hall was built in the Barfüßerkirche by the architect Wimmer, which was opened on May 22, 1887.
The conversion to the city theater in 1950/51
In 1950 and 1951 the theater was rebuilt by the architect Robert Braun. The large auditorium with 800 seats was redesigned in the style of the 1950s. The large oval ceiling was designed by the sculptor Mezger with a relief: the muse Thalia riding on Pegasus. The new stage was built on the south wall of the former Barefoot Church. In the stage building, the first and second tier two foyers were completed in 1953, which also serve as the break foyers today and whose furnishings have been fully preserved from the 1950s. While the exterior facade, the entrance area and the concert hall set up in the former choir (today the seat of the Lindau Marionette Opera) still reveal the former church, the theater and foyers - consistently designed in the style of the 1950s - are the first listed theater in Germany after the Second World War. On May 19, 1951, the city theater was officially opened with Mozart's wedding of Figaro in a performance by the Bavarian State Opera.
Since the 2011/12 season to the present day, the theater has reported an increase in subscribers of 60 percent.
management
Intendants:
- Since 2011/12: Alexander Warmbrunn
Operations management:
- Since 2012/13: Rebecca Scheiner
Program offer
Actors and ensembles
Among the actors who have guested in Lindau are: Josef Meinrad , Bernhard Minetti , Elisabeth Flickenschildt , Maria Becker , Gert Westphal , Martin Benrath , Christiane Hörbiger , Heribert Sasse , Senta Berger , Iris Berben , Suzanne von Borsody , Friederike Pöhlmann-Grießinger , Roland Eugen Beiküfner . Since the 2011/12 season, many theaters from all over Germany have made guest appearances in Lindau, including the Berliner Ensemble , the Deutsche Theater Berlin, the Burgtheater , the Thalia Theater Hamburg, the theater group Art and Drama , or the Staatstheater Karlsruhe , the Bavarian State Opera and the neighboring city theaters of Ulm and Constance .
Promotion of young talent
Since 2011, the house has been promoting more and more young artists, as well as in its chamber music series and in master classes for singers with Dorothea Wirtz, Gerd Uecker, Marcus Bosch u. a. Since 2011, opera projects with young singers have been taking place regularly in Lindau in summer in cooperation with the Schlossoper Haldenstein (Switzerland).
(Chamber) music series
Since 2011/12, the chamber music series has been shaped in close collaboration with Andreas Fleck and the festival in Boswil (Switzerland). In addition to the Casal Quartet and the Charts Chamber Orchestra, artists such as Maximilian Hornung, Veronika Eberle , Quartor Ebene, Emma Kirkby , Dorothee Mields and Christoph Prégardien regularly perform in Lindau. During the concert for the Nobel Laureate Meetings, a delegation from the Vienna Philharmonic makes a guest appearance in the theater every year.
Crossover projects and in-house productions
In 2011 the house hosted the improvisation festival "Improfessional" of the International Lake Constance Conference. In the 2013 season, the Lindau Theater ran for the first time with “The Marquise of O.”, an in-house production directed by Silvia Armbruster. In the summer of 2014 the two artists Igudesman & Joo developed their program “The League” in the Lindau City Theater.
Lindau puppet opera
The Lindau Marionette Opera has been located in the former concert hall since 2000 .
Meetings and congresses
Since 1951 the house has regularly been home to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and the Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ City Theater Lindau (23 August 2011)
Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '45.3 " N , 9 ° 41' 14.3" E