Theater Western Pomerania
| Theater Vorpommern GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1994 |
| Seat | Stralsund |
| management | Dirk Löschner |
| Number of employees | 285 |
| Website | http://www.theater-vorpommern.de/ |
The Theater Vorpommern is a theater operated in the legal form of a GmbH . The partners are the cities of Stralsund and Greifswald and the district of Vorpommern-Rügen . The Vorpommern theater offers musical theater, drama , ballet and concerts . In addition to the performances in the main houses, there are also open-air performances every year.
history
The Theater Vorpommern was formed in 1994 through the merger of the Stralsund Theater with the Theater in Greifswald. In January 2006 the Putbus theater was also incorporated. All three houses have the same voting rights in the shareholders' meeting, with the district of Vorpommern-Rügen holding 5.7 percent of the shares and Stralsund and Greifswald each holding 47.15 percent.
After differences about the contract extension of the artistic director Anton Nekovar , the city of Greifswald terminated the partnership agreement in its previous form with effect from December 31, 2010. According to the city of Greifswald, the aim of the termination was to change the articles of association so that future decisions by the main shareholders Stralsund and Greifswald must be voted unanimously. On May 28, 2010, Anton Nekovar was dismissed from his post as general manager. Since then, the theater has been managed by two lawyers, whose contract was limited to December 31, 2010. The divisions are led by the respective division directors; the music theater division is led by the incumbent general music director and the head of the artistic operations office, as the previous and dismissed director Nekovar was the director of the opera.
Dirk Löschner has been the artistic director since August 2012 . He came from the Altmark Theater and initially changed about half of the acting ensemble. In its first season (2012/2013), 144,000 spectators attended the performances, around 38,600 fewer than in the 2011/2012 season. Löschner explained this with different statistical methods of counting. The theater's board of directors spoke out in favor of the dismissal of Löschner; the theater's three shareholders did not follow suit, but ordered Löschner not to put out any more productions of their own. This means that the director will remain in his office until at least 2017.
According to its own account, Theater Vorpommern closed the 2013/2014 season with a significant increase in the number of spectators - a total of 173,470 spectators then attended the 1,062 events of the season. This means an increase of 33,624 viewers or 24 percent compared to the 2012/2013 season.
A benchmark paper from the Schwerin Ministry of Culture in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in 2014 envisaged the merger of the Theater and Orchestra Neubrandenburg / Neustrelitz with the Theater Vorpommern to form the Northeast State Theater with state participation by 2020 . Stralsund will then be the location of the opera, Greifswald the location for drama and ballet and Neubrandenburg the location of the concert orchestra, which is to merge with the Stralsund opera orchestra. Neustrelitz would become a production location for musicals and operettas; the merger would be associated with job cuts. There were protests by politicians and citizens' groups at the sites against this merger. Director Dirk Löschner spoke out in favor of a merger in November 2014.
The state repeatedly made grants to secure operations, for example 300,000 euros in December 2014. The money is intended to avert economic difficulties; in December 2016, 350,000 euros were approved.
The Theater Vorpommern announced in August 2016 that the number of visitors in the 2015/2016 season had risen to more than 191,000 spectators in the houses in Greifswald, Putbus and Stralsund. That means an increase in the numbers by more than 9,000 compared to the 2014/2015 season and thus the highest numbers in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's theater landscape. These figures were questioned by the Minister of Education, Mathias Brodkorb , and the visitors from room rentals were actually counted.
In the 2016/17 season the situation at the Theater Vorpommern came to a head. The in-house collective agreements for the approximately 190 artistic employees that had existed for 23 years expired at the end of 2016; bankruptcy threatened. A critical point was the payment of the employees, who with the in-house collective agreements forego large parts of their wages compared to the collectively agreed area (approx. 15 percent, as of March 2017). Ultimately, the negotiations were successful with the signing of a new company collective agreement, the conclusion is now to be transferred to the approximately 90 non-artistic employees in fixed-term individual contracts. A further increase of 2.25 percent, which the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania wants to bear alone from January 1, 2018, is tied to the condition that the merger with the theater and orchestra company Neubrandenburg / Neustrelitz is completed in summer 2018.
In May 2017, Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs Birgit Hesse declared that a merger would be possible on January 1, 2018, as the sponsors of Theater Vorpommern and the Orchestra Society Neubrandenburg / Neustrelitz had agreed on a schedule with the state.
After the 2016/2017 season, General Music Director Golo Berg moved to the Münster Theater . The director and dramaturge Hannes Hametner also left the Theater Vorpommern. General music director is now Florian Csizmadia.
The 2017/2018 schedule has the motto “Order and Resistance”; 31 premieres and various concerts are on the program, including the spectacle “Order and Resistance” with five plays and a new version of the ballet Le sacre du printemps by Ralf Dörnen based on music by Igor Stravinsky . According to director Dirk Löschner, the season's motto refers to the anniversaries of 500 years of the Reformation , 100 years of the October Revolution and 50 years of the 1968 movement .
Venues
Greifswald
The city's first license to play for a traveling troop can be traced back to 1730.
After a fire at the venue in Kuhstrasse in 1912 , the decision to build a new theater building, the current theater, including the town hall , was decided and carried out. In the middle of the First World War , on October 10, 1915, the new building opened its doors, and a year later the Greifswald Theater had its own ensemble. Under Artistic Director Emanuel Voss , who ran the house with interruptions until 1949, it became a solid place of art. After the Second World War, the Greifswald Theater was able to reopen on October 17, 1945. In 1960 it merged for the first time with the Stralsund theater and the theater in Putbus on Rügen to form a large multi-branch house. After this connection was dissolved in 1968, the Greifswald and Stralsund theaters have been working together again since autumn 1994 under the name “Theater Vorpommern”. In addition to the actual Greifswald Theater, the Rubenow Hall and the Kaisersaal in the Greifswald City Hall, which was renovated in 2009/10, are used as venues.
Intendants of the Greifswald Theater until 1994 were: 1914–1936 Emanuel Voss , 1936–1938 Harald Güthe, 1938–1942 Claus Dietrich Koch, until 1949 Emanuel Voss, 1949 Heinz-Andreas Ehm , 1961–1964 Georg Roth as chief artistic director for the United Theaters and for Greifswald Werner Eisenblätter, 1964–1968 Otto-Ernst Tickert, 1968–1971 Hubertus Methe, 1971–1979 Fred Grasnick, 1979–1986 Alfred Nicolaus, 1986–1987 Ursula Schone-Makus, 1987–1988 Joachim Giem; In 1988 Detlev Klemm, Rainer Harder, Monika Meyer-Klette, 1988–1990 Rainer Harder and 1990–1994 Dieter Wagner.
Stralsund
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The Stralsund Theater was founded as a city theater in 1766. However, performances in the city have already been proven beforehand.
The current venue is located on Olof-Palme-Platz . Other venues are spread across the city; The Ursula B. ship was used for open-air performances for a number of years , as was the old market and the meadow in front of the Hansa-Gymnasium .
Putbus
The theater in Putbus was built between 1819 and 1821 under Prince Wilhelm Malte I as a summer theater. After the Second World War, the first renovation took place and between 1992 and 1998 an extensive reconstruction of the original state took place.
In 2006 the Theater Vorpommern took over the venues in Putbus; This made the Putbus theater, which did not have its own ensemble, the third major venue for the Vorpommern Theater.
Open air performances
The theater also regularly hosted open-air performances. The changing venues in Greifswald included the ruins of the Eldena monastery and the Greifswald museum harbor. In Stralsund it was and is the Ursula B. ship, the old market , the courtyard of the ruins of the Johanneskirche , the meadow in front of the Hansa-Gymnasium and the Stralsund Zoo . There are also cities in Western Pomerania and the Amfiteatr Świnoujście.
Awards
The opera choir of the Theater Vorpommern was nominated together with the choir of the Szczecin Opera as Choir of the Year by Opernwelt magazine in 2014 .
Support association
The development association “Hebebühne” supports the Theater Vorpommern as well as the “Förderverein Ballett Vorpommern”.
ensemble
management
The theater's directors were Florian Zwipf (1994–1996), Thomas Fehrle (ad interim until 1997), Rüdiger Bloch (1997–2005), Anton Nekovar (2005–2010 / 2012) and Dirk Löschner (2012– ongoing). The opera director is Horst Kupich (2012– ongoing ). The Philharmonic Orchestra was led by Daniel Klajner (concert) and Ekkehard Klemm (music theater) (1994–1996), Peer Borin (1996–1998), Mathias Husmann (1998–2012), Golo Berg (2012–2017) and Florian Csizmadia (2017) - ongoing). Ballet director is Ralf Dörnen (1997– running). The chief dramaturge is Sascha Löschner (2012– ongoing). Axel Vornam (1995–1998), Matthias Nagatis (1998–2012) and Reinhard Göber (2016– running) worked as head drama director .
Musical theater
Soloists in music theater are or were Alexandru Constantinescu (2012– running), Jardena Flückiger (2015–2017), Doris Hädrich-Eichhorn (1994– running), Kristi Anna Isene (2016–2017), Karo Khachatryan (2016– running .) .), Anne-Theresa Møller (2016–2017), Katarzyna Rabczuk (2016– running), Thomas Rettensteiner (2012– running), Johannes Richter (2012– running) and Andrey Valiguras (2016– running).
play
The following artists are or were active in the acting division at Theater Vorpommern: Jan Bernhardt, Tobias Bode, Sarah Bonitz, Frederike Duggen, Anne Greis, Stefan Hufschmidt, Lutz Jesse, Susanne Kreckel, Annett Kruschke , Claudia Lüftenegger , Manfred Ohnoutka, Marvin Rehbock , Chiaretta Schörnig, Sebastian Undisz, Markus Voigt, Ronny Winter, Alexander Frank Zieglarski.
ballet
The following artists are or were engaged in the ballet division at Theater Vorpommern: Zoe Ashe-Browne, Nathan Cornwell, Laura Cristea, Stefano Fossat, Christopher Seán Furlong, Mami Fujii, Dominic Harrison, Isabella Heymann, Armen Khachatryan, Emilia Lakic, Melissa Mastroianni , Miguel Rodriguez, Leander Veizi.
orchestra
The Vorpommern Philharmonic Orchestra was created in the year the orchestras of the Greifswald and Stralsund theaters merged (1994). From 1996 to 1998 Per Borin was general music director. From 2012 to 2017 the orchestra was under the direction of general music director Golo Berg , his successor has been Florian Csizmadia since 2017.
Opera choir
The opera choir was formed in 1994; he emerged from the opera choirs of the Stralsund and Greifswald theaters. In 2017 it has 23 members. The first choir director was Günther Wolf , who previously directed the Stralsund Opera Choir. Julija Domaševa has been leading the opera choir of Theater Vorpommern since the 2016/17 season .
literature
- Monika Klette: From the theater history of the Hanseatic and university town of Greifswald . Published in 2004 on behalf of the theater management.
- Theater anniversaries in Western Pomerania. 100 years Greifswald, 100 years Stralsund, 200 years Putbus, ed .: Dirk Löschner and Harald Müller, Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95749-052-0 .
- Thomas Wieck:! Greifswald City Theater Theater city? 100 Years Theater Greifswald , Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95749-053-7 .
- Juliane Voigt: "This house is dedicated to the noble citizenship". 100 years of Theater Stralsund , Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95749-054-4 .
- Holger Teschke: "... a theater between sky and sea ...". 200 years Theater Putbus on Rügen , Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95749-055-1 .
Web links
- Theater Vorpommern in Stralsund, Greifswald and Putbus
- Baltic Sea Festival of the Vorpommern Theater
Individual evidence
- ^ Ostsee-Zeitung, April 25, 2009
- ^ Press conference of the city of Greifswald, April 27, 2009
- ^ Ostsee-Zeitung Stralsund, September 12, 2013
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- ↑ nmz.de, December 14, 2016, accessed May 20, 2017
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- ↑ faz.net, August 11, 2016, accessed May 20, 2017
- ^ NDR: Theater Vorpommern: New tariff proposal. Retrieved April 2, 2017 .
- ↑ nmz.de, May 10, 2017, accessed on May 20, 2017
- ↑ Ostsee-Zeitung, May 18, 2017
- ↑ https://professionals.klassik.com/karriere/details.cfm?ID=2017
- ↑ welt.de, May 19, 2017, accessed on May 20, 2017
- ↑ nmz.de, October 9, 2014, accessed on May 20, 2017
- ^ Board of Trustees - Rüdiger Bloch. Stiftung Tanz, accessed on December 30, 2017 .
- ↑ February 8, 2007, accessed May 24, 2017
- ↑ accessed on May 24, 2017
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