City Theater Schaffhausen

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City theater on the Herrenacker

The Stadttheater Schaffhausen is a guest theater in Schaffhausen , Switzerland . It is subsidized by the canton and city and can seat up to 687 spectators.

history

Auditorium of the Schaffhausen City Theater

In the 19th century, the Schaffhausen merchant Johann Conrad Im Thurn achieved great wealth with his London trading house. Always connected to his hometown, he donated 10,000 pounds sterling in 1864, with which the first Schaffhausen city theater was built on Herrenacker. It was named after him.

The Imthurneum , built in the courtyard by the architect Georg Friedrich Peyer, housed the music school and a concert and theater hall on a total area of ​​9 × 27 meters. It was inaugurated on January 16, 1867 with Schiller's Maiden of Orleans and in a short time it became the cultural center of the city. The auditorium was covered by a large dome, had intimate acoustics and, because of its 117 doors, was the reason for the nickname Draft Theater . Johann Conrad Im Thurn was made an honorary citizen of Schaffhausen.

Between 1916 and 1938, the Schaffhausen City Theater had its own ensemble, which first played in Winterthur and later also in Constance . Around 1938 the city took over the building from the foundation. The music school left the building, where now only the concerts of the music college and the theater performances supervised by the city council took place.

The building, already a bit shabby when it was taken over by the city, had to be closed in 1952 after pieces of stucco fell into the empty auditorium during a rehearsal. Until the opening of the new building, the performances took place in the hall of the Schaffhauser Hof inn or in the casino. On October 13, 1956, the new city theater designed by the architect Paul Meyer was inaugurated.

management

The head of the Schaffhausen City Theater is a division manager in the city administration and responsible for the city theater and cultural funding. Jens Lampater has held this position since March 1, 2010. Previously, he was the head dramaturge at the St. Gallen Theater for three years and was the artistic director of the St. Gallen Author Days . His predecessor was Rolf C. Müller.

Theater commission

The theater commission promotes the concerns of the city theater on a political and social level. It also serves as a discussion and information platform about theater in general and promotes and accompanies theater operations. It consists of Thomas Feurer (Mayor / President), Peter Boser, Matthias Freivogel, Katharina Furrer, Roland E. Hofer, Walter Millns, Christine Thommen, Jens Lampater (assessor), Peter Surbeck (in an advisory capacity) and Sabine Heller (minutes) .

Occupancy, schedule

The program - including theater, dance and concert productions - is created by the general director and the municipal theater commission. In the 2015/16 season, 88 events took place, which were attended by around 38,000 paying spectators. A majority of them had one of 11 different subscriptions. Another of these subscriptions offers four performances by the Färbe Ensemble in German singing . Events as part of the Schaffhausen International Bach Festival also take place here.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City Archives From Imthurneum to the Municipal Theater. Retrieved from the Schaffhausen State Archives on May 19, 2010.
  2. ↑ Press release CV J. Lampater (PDF; 295 kB) Retrieved on May 19, 2010.
  3. ↑ Visitor statistics of the SBV member stages 2015/16. Swiss Stage Association, 2016, accessed on October 15, 2017 (German).
  4. ↑ Bach meets breakdance. Red Bull flying Bach. ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2014 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. Retrieved from the Bach Festival website on June 1, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bachfest.ch

literature

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 41 '45.1 "  N , 8 ° 37' 59.5"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred eighty-nine thousand six hundred seventy-two  /  283488