Mainfranken Theater Würzburg

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Mainfranken Theater Würzburg
Main entrance of the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg
location
Address: Theaterstrasse 21
City: Wurzburg
Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '42 "  N , 9 ° 56' 12"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '42 "  N , 9 ° 56' 12"  E
Architecture and history
Opened: August 3, 1804, reopened in 1966
Spectator: 831 seats
Internet presence:
Website: theaterwuerzburg.de

The Mainfranken Theater Würzburg is a three-part house in Würzburg . In addition to the large house with 739 seats, the theater also houses a small theater, the Kammerspiele with 92 seats. Markus Trabusch has been artistic director since the 2016/2017 season . Enrico Calesso is the general music director and Berthold Warnecke is the opera director .

history

First theater at Theaterstrasse 18 opposite Ludwigsbahnhof (around 1905)

The Würzburg City Theater (so named for the first time on October 2, 1837) was founded by Count Julius Soden and opened on August 3, 1804 with the play Still Waters Are Deep . It was played in the former aristocratic women's monastery for Saint Anne , which had been converted into a theater. Soden's successor as theater director was Friedrich Wilhelm von Münchhausen (* 1780). In 1814, one day after Würzburg had finally fallen to Bavaria, the city theater was designated as a royal privileged stage . In the 1833/34 season, twenty-year-old Richard Wagner was at the house as a “choir master” and “head of pantomime ”, where his oldest brother Albert was already working as a singer. Richard Wagner's great-granddaughter Katharina Wagner made her debut as an opera director here in 2002 with the production The Flying Dutchman . On February 7, 1843, the city of Würzburg acquired ownership rights to the theater for 60,000 guilders.

Particular highlights in the history of the theater were a guest performance by the composer and violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini and the appearance of Richard Strauss , who conducted his opera Ariadne auf Naxos in the Mainfranken Theater in 1926 . Theater scandals resulted in the performances of Frank Wedekind's Lulu in January 1919 and Arthur Maria Rabenalt's Schöner Helena in the mid-1920s.

On the evening of November 19, 1930, during the guest performance of the Hebrew-speaking theater company Habimah , anti-Semitic protests and riots broke out, which had been organized by the Gauleiter of the NSDAP Otto Hellmuth .

The theater building of the theater, which had been closed since August 1944 because of war, but which performed one summer season at the Kurtheater Bad Kissingen and in Bad Bocklet, was completely destroyed in a major air raid by English combat bombers on March 16, 1945 . In August 1946, the Würzburg stage started playing as a three-division house in the gym of the former teachers' college on Wittelsbacher Platz, which after the war housed the former German grammar school (now Matthias Grünewald grammar school ). Four years later, the city again participated in the theater, which from February 15, 1950 was called the Städtisches Theater am Wittelsbacher Platz . On December 4, 1966, the new building of the Würzburg City Theater, which the city council decided on May 5, 1958 under Mayor Helmuth Zimmerer , opened up to accommodate 750 spectators on the site of the former Würzburg Ludwigsbahnhof .

From 1988 to 1999 Tebbe Harms Kleen was in charge of the Würzburg City Theater. In 2001, the Mainfranken Theater was on the verge of collapse , despite austerity measures. In 2004 Richard Wagner's work Die Feen was performed. Markus Trabusch became director in the 2016/2017 season. In September 2019 the foundation stone was laid for a new venue, the small house, in which the productions are to take place during the renovation. In October 2019 it was announced that the Mainfranken Theater would become the sixth Bavarian state theater.

  • Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, interior

  • Auditorium with a view of the stage

  • The ceiling in the auditorium

  • Foyer in the first tier

  • Chandelier in the foyer of the first tier

  • Foyer on the first tier, left wing

Directors

  • 1930 - 1936: Eugen Keller
  • 1936 - 1941: Otto Reimann
  • 1941 - 1945: Helmuth Ebbs
  • 1965-1970: Herbert Decker
  • 1970 - 1985 Joachim von Groeling
  • 1985 - 1988 Achim Thorwald
  • 1988 - 1999: Tebbe Harms Kleen
  • 1999 - 2000 Wolfgang Schaller
  • 2001 - 2004 Reinhold Röttger
  • 2004 - 2016: Hermann Schneider
  • since 2016: Markus Trabusch

literature

  • Johann Georg Wenzel Dennerlein : History of the Würzburg Theater - from its creation in 1803–4 to May 31, 1853, together with a chronological diary [...]. Wurzburg 1853.
  • Wolfgang Schulz: The Würzburg Theater. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1007-1035 and 1353-1357

Web links

Commons : Mainfrankentheater Würzburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b History of the Mainfranken Theater. (No longer available online.) Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, archived from the original on May 12, 2014 ; accessed on May 11, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Schulz: The Würzburg Theater. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1007-1035 and 1353-1357; here: pp. 1007-1010 and 1353.
  3. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: pp. 1225 and 1227.
  4. ↑ Peter Roos: The Würzburger Töchterschule. In: The time . August 8, 2002, accessed July 26, 2012 .
  5. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. 2007, p. 1228.
  6. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 2007, p. 1236.
  7. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 196-289 and 1271-1290; here: pp. 231 f., 261 and 265.
  8. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. 2007, pp. 1240-1242.
  9. ↑ Rolf-Ulrich Kunze : Würzburg 1945-2004. Reconstruction, modern city. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2 (I: From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasant War. 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 ; II: From the Peasant War 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria 1814. 2004, ISBN 3 -8062-1477-8 ; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume III (2007), Pp. 318-346 and 1292-1295; here: p. 336.
  10. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. 2007, p. 1243.
  11. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I – III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 9783806214789 , pp. 196-289 and 1271-1290; here: p. 261.
  12. ↑ partly theaterwissenschadt: Helmuth Ebbs .
  13. ^ House of Bavarian History: Dr. Herbert Decker .