Stage Entertainment Germany

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Stage Entertainment GmbH

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founding 1998
Seat Hamburg
management
  • Ursula Neuss (Chair)
  • Ulf Dewald
  • Martin Broderick
  • Henning Doerr
Number of employees 81 (2011/12 in Stage Entertainment GmbH) 1,700 (2019 in subsidiaries)
sales EUR 302 million (FY 2017/18)
Website www.stage-entertainment.de

Phantom of the Opera in the Palladium Theater Stuttgart , 2002–2004
Foyer in the Theater am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin during the Berlinale 2007
Stage entertainment theater in the port of Hamburg

The Stage Entertainment GmbH (company until August 2005: Stage Holding GmbH), headquartered in Hamburg is producer of several shows and musicals , operates several theaters and maintains relationships with various companies in the entertainment industry. It belongs to the Dutch Stage Entertainment based in Amsterdam. The managing directors of the German branch are Ursula Neuss (chairwoman), Just Spee, Ulf Dewald and Wolfgang Orthmayr.

Stage Entertainment - worldwide

The parent company in Amsterdam was a division of Endemol as "Live Entertainment Division" and was outsourced as a separate company by Joop van den Ende in 1998. The international group holds the rights for several own and licensed productions, employs 4,500 people and owns venues and the like. a. in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Russia, France, Italy and on Broadway in New York.

In June 2015, Joop van den sold 60 percent of the shares in the parent company Stage Entertainment to the Luxembourg private equity company CVC Capital Partners . Shortly afterwards, the new majority owner announced the closure of the deficit "Theater am Potsdamer Platz".

In 2018, Stage Entertainment was 100 percent taken over by the US media company Advance Publications .

theatre

Hamburg :

Berlin :

Stuttgart :

Former theater

The Colosseum Theater in Essen was from August 2000, the first own theater of Stage Entertainment in Germany which stage of the insolvent Stella AG took over. In March 2001 a new beginning was celebrated with the musical Elisabeth . The last performance of the musical Buddy was in July 2010 , after which no further en-suite productions could be seen in the former factory hall in Essen. The reason given was that apart from the musical Elisabeth, no production in Essen had brought in their investments. From August 2010 the theater was therefore rented out by Stage for events and finally sold to the RAG Foundation and the energy company E.ON on July 1, 2020 .

The rental contract for the theater at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin was also taken over by Stella AG from July 2002 . There followed in October 2002 the premiere of the musical Cats . The new majority shareholder CVC Capital Partners announced the end of the ensuite productions in the Theater am Potsdamer Platz in January 2016, so that in August 2016 the last curtain fell on the musical Hinterm Horizont . The theater was then sublet by Stage for guest performances and events. Live Nation and Cirque du Soleil have been the new tenants of the theater since May 2020 .

In August 2005 the Metronom Theater in Oberhausen was taken over by the Stage, in December 2005 the premiere of Beauty and the Beast took place . In October 2019 it was announced that after the end of the musical Tanz der Vampire in March 2020 no further musicals will be performed in the Metronom Theater in Oberhausen. The background to this is that only the musicals Tarzan and Tanz der Vampire made a profit. All other musicals presented in the Metronom Theater earned less than the production costs.

In January 2018, Werk 7 in the Werksviertel in Munich opened its theater with the musical Fack ju Göhte . Following the dereliction of The fabulous world of Amélie, the two-year lease expired at Stage's request in November 2019 and the theater was closed.

Musicals

Events of Stage Entertainment Germany GmbH:

In-house productions

Disney productions

VBW productions

  • Elisabeth (2001–2003: Essen, 2005–2006: Stuttgart, 2008: Berlin)
  • Rebecca (2011-2013: Stuttgart)
  • Dance of the Vampires (2000–2003, 2010–2011 and 2017: Stuttgart, 2003–2006 and 2017–2018: Hamburg, 2006–2008, 2011–2013, 2016 and 2018–2019: Berlin, 2008–2010 and 2019–2020: Oberhausen, 2016–2017: Munich, 2018: Cologne)

RUG productions

More productions

In Europe, the company competes with the Really Useful Group (rights holder of all musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber , owner of several theaters in Great Britain and its own ticketing company), the Cameron Mackintosh Group (rights holder of Miss Saigon , Les Miserables, among others and owners of theaters in the UK ) and Live Nation, the world's largest provider of rock-pop, sports and family entertainment based in the USA .

executive Director

  • 2000-2005: Maik Klokow
  • 2005-2007: Jan-Pelgrom de Haas
  • 2007-2008: Maik Klokow
  • 2008–2013: Johannes Mock-O'Hara
  • since 2013: Ursula Neuss

Cooperations

On June 1, 2005, the company took over the ticket system operator “Ticket Online Software GmbH” (until 2007: Berlin, now: Hamburg). Ticket Online operates a booking system for tickets that is used by several thousand advance booking offices across Germany. On January 31, 2008, Stage Entertainment Ticketing International took over the British ticket provider SEE Ticket, which was previously owned by the Really Useful Group ( Andrew Lloyd Webber ). All stage ticketing activities were thus united under one roof.

SEE Ticket / Ticket Online, in turn, was taken over in 2010 by CTS Eventim AG, which at the same time agreed a twelve-year exclusive ticketing contract with Stage Entertainment. This means that Stage Entertainment tickets will be sold exclusively by CTS Eventim AG and its subsidiaries until 2022 .

In 2005, Stage Entertainment founded ID&T Germany together with the Dutch dance event organizer ID&T . The first production with around 15,000 visitors was the Sensation White in July 2005 in the Veltins-Arena Gelsenkirchen , which is an adaptation of the very successful ID&T event of the same name in Amsterdam .

With Top Ticket Line GmbH, founded in December 2001 in Hamburg , Stage Entertainment operates its own call center for ticket sales. The call center was relocated from Hamburg to Parchim (near Schwerin) in 2004 for cost reasons .

Even Holiday on Ice is part of Stage Entertainment. The shows Elements and Mystery performed between November 2007 and March 2008 in 21 German cities.

With the founding of the Joop van den Ende Academy , Stage Entertainment has created a training facility for 10 young actors each year, which has been supported by a full scholarship since 2011. At the end of the 2017 school year, the Joop van den Ende Academy will cease operations.

In April 2014 Stage Entertainment stepped over the four subsidiaries Theater am Potsdamer Platz mbH , Theater of the West mbH , Theater in Port mbH and Musical Betriebsgesellschaft Operettenhaus GmbH as a sustaining member of the industry association German Musical Academy e. V. at.

Stage Entertainment employs service staff on a mini-job basis at all musical theaters via the service provider OnStage & Sports Service GmbH . The employees are deployed at the entrance, the cloakrooms and the bars.

Employee

The company has over 1650 employees; most of them in the outsourced operating companies of the individual houses.

Restructuring of the divisions resulted in jobs being lost. Most recently, the theater on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin was closed in 2016 due to a loss of performance. In addition, the Joop van den Ende Academy musical school in Hamburg's HafenCity was closed in 2017.

The employees are represented by works councils in the respective theaters and holding companies. Stage Entertainment Germany also has a group works council .

literature

Web links

Commons : Stage Entertainment Germany  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. Stage Entertainment GmbH: Annual financial statements for the business year from August 1, 2011 to July 31, 2012
  2. Company . In: stage-entertainment.de . May 22, 2015.
  3. Stage Entertainment - "The Lion King" goes to financial investor . Reuters / Handelsblatt , June 19, 2015; Retrieved June 20, 2015
  4. ^ RAG-Stiftung and Eon buy Essen Colosseum Theater ; In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 17, 2020
  5. tagesspiegel.de
  6. Musical theater on Potsdamer Platz becomes a haunted house. In: www.rbb-online.de. Retrieved August 29, 2016 .
  7. https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/ein-neuer-glanzpunkt-unserer-metropole-cirque-du-soleil-sehen-an-den-potsdamer-platz/25114590.html
  8. Stage Entertainment plans to end gaming operations in Oberhausen
  9. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-werk7-musical-amelie-flopp-1.4662187
  10. ^ Off for musical theater at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. In: sueddeutsche.de. January 20, 2016, accessed August 25, 2020 .
  11. Musikmarkt: Stage Holding takes over Ticket Online ( memento of the original from January 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikmarkt.de
  12. Music market: Stage Ticketing takes over British company See Tickets ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikmarkt.de
  13. Musical1.de: Joop van den Ende Academy closes operations
  14. ↑ Supporting members . In: deutschemusicalakademie.de .
  15. taz, the daily newspaper: - taz.de. (No longer available online.) In: www.taz.de. Archived from the original on August 8, 2016 ; accessed on August 8, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.taz.de
  16. ^ Off for the musical theater on Potsdamer Platz . ( bz-berlin.de [accessed on November 18, 2016]).