Magdeburg Theater
The Magdeburg Theater is a four-branch theater with its own ensembles for music theater , ballet , concerts and drama in Magdeburg . It was created in 2004 from the merger of the state capital's theater and the Freie Kammerspiele .
history
The opera house was opened as a central theater in 1907 . At first it was used as a variety theater , from 1922 it was then a pure operetta stage . After the destruction in World War II , it reopened on December 21, 1950 under the name Maxim-Gorki-Theater . After a fire, the cause of which was probably arson, destroyed a large part of the stage space on May 20, 1990, it was renovated for 120 million DM and reopened on October 4, 1997 as the state capital's theater .
The theater was originally the urban villa of the industrialist Ferdinand Friedrich August Klusemann and was sold to the Harmonie-Gesellschaft in 1906 . She expanded this into a community center where dance events, club evenings and concerts took place. From 1945 the house was used as a provisional venue for the theater and was renamed the Magdeburger Kammerspiele in the early 1960s . After 1990 the house initially became an independent theater with a permanent ensemble under the name "Freie Kammerspiele". In May 2003 it was closed for extensive renovation; During the renovation period, the former Reichsbank at the cathedral served as a venue. In September 2005 the reopening took place, now as the "playhouse" of the merged Magdeburg Theater.
Until 1944 the most important theater in Magdeburg was the city theater . Other theaters that once belonged to the city's theaters were the Viktoriatheater and the Wilhelmtheater .
In 2009, General Director Tobias Wellemeyer was awarded the German Critics' Prize.
Karen Stone has been General Director of the Magdeburg Theater since the 2009/2010 season.
Venues
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- Opera House (Universitätsplatz): Big stage, podium
- Playhouse (Otto-von-Guericke-Straße): large stage, studio, foyer
- Domplatz Open Air Summer Theater: Domplatz
Theater management
Status: February 2018
- General Manager: Karen Stone
- Administrative director, deputy general manager: Bettina Pesch
- Chief dramaturge music theater: Ulrike Schröder
- Head of Communication / Press / Public Relations: Christine Villinger
- Head of digital marketing / visual communication: Andreas Drabe
- General Music Director: Anna Skryleva
- Orchestra manager: Joachim Hildebrand
- Ballet director: Gonzalo Galguera
- Acting director: Tim Kramer
General manager
- 2004–2009 Tobias Wellemeyer
- since 2009 Karen Stone
repertoire
The previous productions are listed in the list of productions of the Magdeburg Theater.
Musical theater
- Magdeburg Opera House: opera, operetta, musical
- Classical-romantic repertoire and newer pieces, chamber operas
ballet
- predominantly classically oriented company
- Festival "Tanzfest" with new pieces (workshops, discussions and ballet gala)
play
- Focus on contemporary drama, many world premieres and German-language premieres, as well as classic productions
Philharmonic
- Magdeburg Philharmonic : 10 concerts per season, 6 chamber concerts
- numerous additional concerts, for example at Christmas time or two cloister serenades in the monastery of Our Lady
- classical-romantic repertoire, modern classical and new music
Young theater
- until the 2013/2014 season: "Theater for young viewers"
- Performances in musical theater, drama and concerts
- Theater youth club
- extensive educational theater offer
Extras
- Sunday matinees (premiere fever: introductory events to music theater, ballet and drama premieres as well as selected topics in speech and music)
- Insight (dramaturge discussion before selected performances) and follow-up discussion (audience discussion with participants after selected performances)
- Ballet showcase (public and commented rehearsals)
- Premiere celebrations
- Jazz! (in the Schauspielhaus, every third Monday of the month, mainly younger jazz musicians and bands performed regularly, initiated by Warnfried Altmann in 1990 ), until 2016
- Encores (unusual formats, readings, follow-up discussions, special stories and lots of surprises)
- Guest performances in the opera house
- Magdeburger Allerlei (cooking show with celebrities from Magdeburg city and theater life)
DomplatzOpenAir
As part of the annual DomplatzOpenAir summer theater , a play is staged on Domplatz, in front of Magdeburg Cathedral .
This open-air spectacle goes back to the summer nights staged by the Freie Kammerspiele . After the merger of the Freie Kammerspiele with the theater of the state capital , a decision was made for two summer theaters, that of the opera house on the lake stage in Elbauenpark Magdeburg and that of the theater on Domplatz. In the 2007/2008 season, on the other hand, an interdisciplinary summer theater took place for the first time under the title "DomplatzOpenAir". Since then, mainly musicals have been performed. In summer 2012 the Domplatz was extensively rebuilt; therefore the planned outdoor production of Carmina Burana had to be moved to the opera house.
There is criticism that the theater blocks the cathedral square and the water features installed on it for months, from May to July, for the three-week open air. The taxpayers' black book wrote "The water art, which cost around 270,000 euros, could only be admired by the city's citizens and their guests for seven whole days complex construction of the venue. "
The use of Domplatz has been agreed until 2021. Because of the criticism of the month-long closure of the Domplatz and the water features on it and because of the impairment of the touristically important view of the cathedral by construction fences, there are considerations to relocate the location of the summer theater to an area between the Hyparschale and the city hall , from which the View of the cathedral is possible.
The previous productions of the DomplatzOpenAir are listed in the list of productions of the Magdeburg Theater.
literature
- Friedemann Krusche: Theater in Magdeburg . 2 volumes. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle.
- Volume 1: From the Reformation to the beginning of the Weimar Republic. 1994, ISBN 3-354-00835-0 .
- Volume 2: A foray through the 20th century. 1995, ISBN 3-354-00880-6 .
- Immortal at last: Theater for Magdeburg 2001 - 2009, director Tobias Wellemeyer. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2009, ISBN 978-3-89812-668-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 18, 1951, p. 3
- ↑ Black Book of Taxpayers 2013
- ^ Katja Tessnow: Magdeburg Domplatz-Theater wobbles. In: Volksstimme Magdeburg, June 14, 2018
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 14.6 ″ N , 11 ° 38 ′ 19 ″ E