FX Šalda Theater
The FX Šalda Theater ( Czech Divadlo Františka Xavera Šaldy or Divadlo FX Šaldy ) is a theater in Liberec in the Czech Republic. Plays, operas and ballet are performed at the theater. The theater consists of the main building and the small theater .
history
The theater, which until 1945 only had German-speaking ensembles, was known as the Reichenberger Stadttheater . It was built in 1885 after the drapery theater burned down on April 24, 1879 . The building of the theater was made possible by a collection from the citizens of Reichenberg. The theater was planned by the Viennese office Fellner & Helmer , which had already gained experience in numerous cities such as Vienna , Pressburg , Timișoara and Brno in previous years . The foundation stone was laid in September 1881 on Gründelplatz near what was then the Rathausplatz.
The theater was built in the neo-Renaissance style by master builders from Reichenberg. Numerous Viennese artists were busy , such as the sculptors Bendel and Reinhold Völkel , and the painter H. Löffler. Numerous statues and ornaments were made from Pirna sandstone . The decorations came from Viennese court painters. The big curtain is a youth work by Gustav Klimt . His school colleague Franz Matsch and his brother worked with us . In contrast to the curtain in the Karlsbader Theater, also by Klimt, this one is not in good condition. Even with the last restoration in 1968/1969 it could not really be saved.
The theater was set up by the theater inspector of the Burgtheater in Vienna, C. Barrot. After the ring theater fire on December 8, 1881, the initially planned possible number of visitors had to be reduced from 1,050 to 850. Great importance was also attached to the iron curtain .
The theater was opened in September 1883 with Schiller's Wilhelm Tell . In the period before the First World War , when Reichenberg belonged to Habsburg Bohemia , as well as in the interwar period in Czechoslovakia , the Reichenberg City Theater often represented the start of numerous singers and actors in their further careers. Mizzi Günther were important names from these years , Hans Holt , Hans Moser , Attila and Paul Hörbiger , Julius Patzak .
From 1923 operas were also performed in the Czech language. While the Olomouc Theater Society gave guest performances of operas and operettas in the period up to the Second World War , the first performance was staged in October 1945 by Bedřich Smetana under the Czech direction of Jaromír Žid.
In 1957 the theater was named after the writer František Xaver Šalda .
Individual evidence
literature
- Jiří Zapletal (editor): Státní divadlo FX Šaldy - Liberec. Thalia, Liberec 1991, ISBN 80-900684-1-3 .
Web links
- Divadlo FX Šaldy Liberec (website of the theater, partly in German)
- The theater on postcards