Romper Theater

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The Strampfer Theater was a theater in Vienna's 1st district , Innere Stadt , at today's address Tuchlauben 12 (originally: 16) / Brandstätte 10. It existed from 1871 to 1884 and was dedicated to the local posse and operetta .

history

From 1831 to 1870 the first concert building of the Society of Friends of Music , the Vienna Music Association, was located here . In 1870 he moved to his current domicile on Karlsplatz and sold the house in the same year.

In November 1870, the actor Friedrich Strampfer acquired the “Vaudeville Theater” which had been destroyed by Anton Küstner (actually: Köstler) . The current principal rebuilt the house (and especially the concert hall) completely in the early summer of 1871 (three tiers, 28 boxes, 800 visitors) and opened (with three pieces) on September 12, 1871 as a romper theater . Strampfer is said to have set the initially high entrance fees to keep the rabble away . Strampfer succeeded in making actors like Alexander Girardi , Josefine Gallmeyer and Karl Blasel into stars in the new house . Anton M. Storch and Julius Hopp were the band masters and composers.

The theater was less renowned and had lower admission prices than the Viennese suburban theaters , but therefore attracted a petty-bourgeois audience. At times it was regarded as a kind of antithesis to the more elegant Theater an der Wien , which Strampfer had directed from September 1, 1862 to July 26, 1869.

The stage played an important role in the early phase of the Viennese operetta and performed numerous works by Jacques Offenbach , including on the opening evening Dorothea and on February 19, 1872 the operettas Der Schmuggler and Die Rose von Saint-Fleur , both of which gave rise to differences. because Offenbach refused to conduct one-act operettas, even if they came from his pen.

A planned new building by Camillo Sitte could not be financed in 1873; Strampfer left the theater a year later. In 1875 Josefine Gallmeyer took over the management together with the writer Julius Rosen (1833-1892), but ultimately it was not economically successful. The theater had to close in 1884 due to bankruptcy.

The new owner had the house demolished in 1885. In his place, he had Gustav von Korompay build a residential and commercial building on the corner lot (the fire site was rebuilt around 1875 up to the Tuchlauben and was not identical to the old fire site) , which was given the name Mattoni-Hof and the addresses Tuchlauben 12 and Brandstätte 10 leads.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theater and Art News. (...) romper theater. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 2533/1871, September 13, 1871, p. 8, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  2. ↑ Theater, Art and Literature. (...) Among the novelties (...). In:  Morgen-Post , No. 252/1871 (XXI. Volume), September 12, 1871, p. 3, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / mop.
  3. ↑ Theater and Art News. (...) Between the small, big Offenbach (...). In:  Die Presse , February 16, 1872, p. 14, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The performance of the play planned in connection with the opening, Hans Hopfens Cinderella in Bohemia , was banned by the censors.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 37 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 15 ″  E