Bayreuth studio stage

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Logo of the Studiobühne Bayreuth
House of the Bayreuth studio stage

The Studiobühne Bayreuth is an ensemble founded in Bayreuth in 1980 under professional management, which works out and offers a regular year-round theater program with ambitious amateurs . With guest performances (e.g. Deutsche Oper Berlin and Semperoper in Dresden ) the Studiobühne Bayreuth has also attracted national attention.

history

The core of what would later become the studio stage got to know each other in 1976 during joint theater work as part of the international youth festival meeting. The first plans for their own theater were made in 1980. In that year, the theater began operating in the "Theater im Schützenhaus" under the direction of the Swiss director Werner Hildenbrand, who is still in charge of the theater today. Initially with changing venues, in autumn 1982 the theater was able to move into a former officers' mess in the barracks district as a permanent home. With the help of the city of Bayreuth, the house owner, the building was renovated until 1997/98 and converted into a permanent theater with year-round theater. The ensemble consists of around 100 members, and an average of 14 in-house productions (mostly two of which are premieres) are played in around 240 performances each year.

Program and venues

Rock theater in Sanspareil
Ruin theater of the Hermitage

In the summer the studio stage also plays on historical sites in Bayreuth, such as the ruin theater of Margravine Wilhelmine in the palace gardens of the Bayreuth Hermitage (first in 1981) and the rock theater in Sanspareil . In addition, parallel to the Bayreuth Festival, since 1982 there has been a permanent fixture of Wagner parodies in the courtyard of the Bayreuth piano factory Steingraeber & Söhne , where spoken theater adaptations of Richard Wagner's works are offered.

By 1990, 67 pieces, including 24 world premieres, had been staged. The ensemble has been using the catacombs below the city for theater purposes since 1989. The "studio mobile" is also invited to the living rooms in the Bayreuth area.

In 1990 the Studiobühne Bayreuth premiered a long-lost first dramatic attempt, the tragedy Leubald ( WWV 1 ) by the young Richard Wagner under the direction of Uwe Hoppe (staging) and Karlheinz Beer (set design).

Awards

  • 1992: Culture Prize of the City of Bayreuth
  • 1992: Friedrich Baur Prize for the Performing Arts
  • 1993: Medal pro meritis from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture for the director of the studio stage Werner Hildenbrand
  • 1998: Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for Werner Hildenbrand for outstanding services in the cultural field

Funding and funding

The Studiobühne Bayreuth is financed by its own income and is supported by:

  • City of Bayreuth
  • Free State of Bavaria
  • Bayreuth district
  • District of Upper Franconia
  • Friends of the Studiobühne Bayreuth e. V.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Stephan-H. Fuchs: Bayreuth Chronicle 1991 . 1st edition. Gondrom, Bindlach 1991, ISBN 3-8112-0782-2 , p. 66 .
  2. Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth in the twentieth century , p. 172.