Ansbach theater
The Ansbach theater is the youngest Bavarian theater and was launched in 2007 by the registered Ansbach cooperative “Kultur am Schloss”. Axel Krauße has been the artistic director since the 2020/21 season. In addition to the acting business, there are also children's and youth theater, Ansbach puppet shows, concerts and, with the Schlosslichtspiele, a cinema.
program
Axel Krauße has been director of the Ansbach Theater since July 1, 2020, and succeeds founding director Jürgen Eick (director 2007–2015) and Susanne Schulz (director 2015–2020) as the third director of the theater.
Under the motto “Just save the world for a moment”, his first season at the Ansbach Theater deals with the end of the world and its prophecy. The program consists of classics such as Goethe's Faust II , rarities such as The Ballade of the Great Macabre by Michel de Ghelderode, well-known pieces such as Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf…? by Edward Albee or Oskar and the Lady in Pink by Èric-Emmanuel Schmitt and premieres such as KALT by Joachim Zelter.
In addition, the President of Werner Schwab (cooperation with the Spiel.Werk eV. Ansbach), Habe Häuschen. There we would live by Roger Willemsen (coproduction with the Gostner Hoftheater Nürnberg) and several collaborations in the field of children's and youth theater with the Theater Kopfüber (The ugly duckling by Hans Christian Andersen, Swallow King by Stefan Hornbach and Dreier is upside down by Carsten Brandau ) Networks in the regional cultural and theater scene strengthened and expanded.
Since the 2020/21 season, the Ansbach Theater has a separate second venue with the studio stage in Welserstraße. Up to now, chamber plays and smaller formats have been performed in the “Theater behind the Iron”. The back stage was converted into an auditorium for up to 120 spectators and the stage was placed on the stage in front of the iron curtain.
So far, different locations in the city of Ansbach (St. Gumbertus Church, regional court, summer theater in the Citrushaus) have also been played.
history
The supporting cooperative of the Ansbach theater goes back to the "Ansbacher Konzertverein" founded in 1909, which was expanded in 1919 to include other clubs and a cinema and was registered as a cooperative. In 1930 the cooperative received its own "House of National Education", which also housed a library. The building known today as the "Borkholder House" was modernized and expanded in 2001-2003 according to plans by the Munich architect Hein Goldstein.
The cooperative, now operating under the name “Theater Ansbach - Kultur am Schloss eG”, is responsible for a classic concert series with international guests and the Ansbach Castle Light Theater, in addition to the new theater business.
In 2006 the city decided under the then mayor Ralf Felber and the cooperative “Kultur am Schloss” with its chairman Carl-Dieter Spranger and the then chairman of the supervisory board Klaus Dieter Breitschwert to found the theater. This was based on the conviction of the central importance of the city's cultural mandate, on considerations of "culture as a soft location factor" and on the assessment of culture experts from all over Germany that the possibilities of the Ansbach cultural center, which was renovated and expanded in 2001-2003, have so far contributed were by no means exhausted and theater operations with guest performances, co- and in-house productions are possible.
In April 2007, the first general manager Jürgen Eick was appointed. From 2015 to 2020 Susanne Schulz was the artistic director of Theater Ansbach. Before that, she headed the Naumburg Theater in Saxony-Anhalt. Axel Krauße has been running the theater since summer 2020 .
Honors
In May 2010, the Culture Forum of the European Metropolitan Region Nuremberg honored Jürgen Eick for his work as artistic director at the Ansbach Theater as the first “Artist of the Month”.
Venues
play
- Big house (480 visitors)
- Studiobühne Welsterstraße (99 visitors)
- Theater behind the Iron (up to 120 visitors)
concert
- Onoldia conference center (600 visitors)
- St. Gumbertus Church (945 visitors)
Puppet shows
- Big house (480 visitors)
- Studiobühne Welsterstraße (99 visitors)
Schlosslichtspiele - cinema
- Small hall (studio cinema, 100 visitors)
World premieres
- Go ahead and cry! (2008) | Rafael Badie Massud
- The Bremen Town Musicians (2008) | Jürgen Eick after the Brothers Grimm
- Saw a boy stand a rose (2009) | Jürgen Eick, Walter Kiesbauer
- The brook (2009) | Ingrid Braun
- Coma (2009) | Lisa Sommerfeldt
- Small Town Blues (2009) | Mimi master
- Caliph Stork (2009) | Jürgen Eick after Wilhelm Hauff
- Alexander the Last Margrave (2010) | Gerd Scherm
- Kaspar Hauser - Alone Among People (Musical) (2010) | Jürgen Eick (text), Walter Kiesbauer (music)
- School friends (2010) | Lisa Sommerfeldt
- Snow White (2010) | Jürgen Eick after the Brothers Grimm
- The legend case - Mrs. Holle and the three fish (2011) | Ingrid Braun
- Puss in Boots (2011) | Jürgen Eick after Ludwig Tieck and the Brothers Grimm
- The Portrait of the Wild Margrave (2012) | Gerd Scherm
- Nudge me! Leave me alone! (2012) | Arnd Rühlmann
- Captain Topfit and the common Pommfritz (2012) | Udo Grunwald
- Cinderella (2012) | Jürgen Eick after the Brothers Grimm
- Big Heroes - Little Heroes (2013) | Christoph Daigl
- Uncle Bobby (2013) | Daniel Ratthei
- Hansel and Gretel (2013) | Jürgen Eick after the Brothers Grimm
- King Thrushbeard (2014) | Jürgen Eick after the Brothers Grimm
- City.Country.River or the construction of love (2015) | Lisa Sommerfeldt
- The Investor (2015) | Walter Kiesbauer (music), Jürgen Eick and Jens Neutag (text)
- Monkey on Lava (2015) | Roland Spranger
- Casanova and the art of seduction (2016) | Jutta Schubert
- The dead know more - Tatort Ansbach (2016) | Eckart Böhmer
- Malala - A Strong Girl (2017) | Annekatrin Schuch-Greiff and Anna Mariani
- Luther! The clear word (2017) | Friederike Köpf - commissioned by the Ansbach theater
Cooperation partner
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Culture as a location factor. In: Nürnberger Nachrichten / Fränkische Landeszeitung. November 1, 2006
- ↑ Overdue. In: Fränkische Landeszeitung . October 7, 2006.
- ↑ Expedition into the stage realm. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . October 10, 2008.
- ↑ A little miracle. In: The German Stage . 11/2007.
- ↑ http://www.br.de/nachrichten/mittelfranken/schulz-intendantin-theater-ansbach-100.html
- ↑ Unanimously: Axel Krauße becomes director in Ansbach. In: nachtkritik.de. February 12, 2019, accessed February 24, 2019 .
- ↑ New boss in Ansbach . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . February 13, 2019, p. 8 .