Vienna City Theater
history
The Wiener Stadttheater (also New Vienna City Theater ) in Josefstadt was built in 1914 by the important Jewish theater architect Oskar Kaufmann from Budapest at the intersection of Laudongasse , Skodagasse and Daungasse . The Paarsche Riding School was originally located on the area Laudongasse 36, followed by the Kitschelt iron furniture factory.
After a renovation in 1918 by Hermann Helmer , the theater building served as an operetta theater . After 1945 it was renamed the "Rex Theater" by the American occupation forces . In 1949 the theater saw the world premiere of the Robert Stolz opera Spring in the Prater with Heinz Conrads and Peter Alexander under the direction of Hubert Marischka . Later the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation used the house for television recordings . 1960–61 the city theater finally fell victim to the death of the Viennese theater, which shortly before had also affected the Viennese citizens' theater and the “Scala” (former Johann Strauss theater ).
In its place, the House of Books (architect Georg Lippert ) was built and used by the Vienna libraries until the new Vienna main library was settled on the Neubaugürtel. The second Adolf Schärf dormitory “Vindobona” has been located on the rear part of the property since 1969, with around 230 dormitory spaces. Since 2004, after the libraries were relocated, the headquarters of the music schools of the City of Vienna have been located in the front part of the building.
Directors
- Karl Farkas , Fritz Grünbaum (1927–1931)
- Friedl Czepa (1940–1945)
- Rudolf Austrian (1945–1947)
- Karl Loubé (1947–1960)
literature
- Dieter Klein , Martin Kupf , Robert Schediwy : Stadtbildverluste Wien. A look back over five decades. 3. Edition. Lit, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7754-X .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 48 ″ N , 16 ° 20 ′ 46 ″ E