Thalia Theater (Vienna)

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The Thalia Theater in Vienna, lithograph by A. Bruner

The Thalia Theater was a theater in the Viennese suburb of Neulerchenfeld from 1856 to 1870 . In 1894, today's Thaliastraße was named after the theater.

Historic Thalia Theater

It was named after Thalia , the Greek muse of comic poetry and entertainment. It was built in 1856 as a summer theater by Ferdinand Fellner the Elder at the confluence of what was then Neulerchenfelderstrasse (today's Thaliastrasse) and today's Lerchenfelder Gürtel . The theater was a wooden structure measuring 50 × 20 m with three galleries resting on iron columns. The capacity is said to have been a thousand people on the ground floor and three thousand people in the galleries (a completely unrealistic number). The head of the house was Johann Hoffmann (born May 22, 1805 in Vienna; † September 13, 1865 there), who was also director of the theater in the Josefstadt from 1855 to 1865 .

The opening took place on August 15, 1856 with the posse From the Viennese Life by Josef Böhm. The repertoire later consisted of antics and folk plays. But there were also performances with athletes, horse riders, magicians, "Lilliputians" and giants. A highlight of the theater was the Vienna premiere of the opera Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner on August 28, 1857.

After Johann Hoffmann's death in 1865, the number of visitors gradually decreased. In 1870 the Thalia Theater was demolished.

New Thaliateater

There is now a new ensemble called Thaliatheater Wien . It is on tour with pieces by Georg Büchner and Wolfgang Borchert .

literature

  • Anton Bauer: Operas and Operettas in Vienna. Böhlau, Vienna 1955, p. 97.
  • Verena Keil-Budischowsky: The theaters of Vienna. Zsolnay, Vienna et al. 1983, ISBN 3-552-03524-9 ( Wiener Geschichtsbücher 30/32).
  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 5: Ru - Z. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 433f.
  • Thomas Mally, Robert Schediwy : Searching for traces in Vienna. Telling places that have disappeared. Lit, Vienna [u. a.] 2007, ISBN 978-3-7000-0693-0 (3rd edition. ibid 2008).

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