Pforzheim City Theater
The Stadttheater Pforzheim is the theater of the city of Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg . The theater is located on Waisenhausplatz directly on the Enz . The theater, which was built in 1990 according to plans by the architect Bodo Fleischer , has two venues: the large house with 511 seats and the podium , which can accommodate up to 193 spectators thanks to variable seating and a gallery. The Pforzheim City Theater is a three-division house . In addition to theater performances , operas , operettas , ballet , concerts and musicals take place here. In addition, the Badische Philharmonie Pforzheim (formerly the Pforzheim Municipal Orchestra) is housed under the roof of the theater.
history
The history of the theater in Pforzheim goes back to 1803. At that time, the so-called Komödienhaus was set up in Theaterstrasse as a venue for traveling actors. However, the comedy house had to be closed in 1888 due to dilapidation and was demolished a little later. A theater association founded in 1885 set up a new theater during this time. A large hall built according to the plans of Alfons Kern was finally inaugurated in 1900: the representative building in Jahnstrasse, with its pompous, historicizing and double-towered facade, offered space for around 2,000 spectators. The development of today's theater began when Kapellmeister Hans Leger made a public symphony orchestra out of a recently founded private symphony orchestra in 1933 and also integrated opera and drama into the program of the Pforzheim Theater, creating a regular three-branch theater in Pforzheim for the first time originated. In 1940 the orchestra became the Pforzheim Municipal Orchestra . After the destruction of the Second World War, theater was played again in Pforzheim from 1945. Various provisional rooms served as the venue, initially in a Brötzingen gym, and later in Dillweißstein. In 1948, the Osterfeldschule started playing, which was to remain the home of the Pforzheim Theater until 1990 before it was converted into today's Osterfeld cultural center . In 1990 the current premises on Waisenhausplatz were inaugurated, and Mozart's Magic Flute was on the program for the opening .
City Opera Southwest
Since 1959, the Pforzheimer Ensemble has performed in cities with no theater throughout Baden-Württemberg under the name of the City Opera Southwest .
Numbers and dates
In 2005 the theater employed around 200 people and had an annual budget of around 12 million euros. As a rule, eight drama productions, six symphony concerts (plus three children's concerts), four operas, three musicals or operettas, two ballet evenings and one children's play are organized per season. Of the almost 12 million budget for the 2003/2004 season, around 9.7 million were financed through grants, with box office earnings of 15.1%. Of the 211 posts available in the 2006 season, 193 were occupied. Most of the staff is occupied in technology and workshops, where 59 people are employed, the orchestra in 2006 comprised 42 musicians. 16 actors and as many singers, 19 choir members and 10 dancers make up the artistic staff. There are also management and administrative offices. The minimum wage at the Pforzheim Theater in 2006 was 1,550 euros. In the 2004/2005 season 142,040 visitors were recorded, the occupancy rate was 82.6%. Visitor numbers have stagnated in recent years. According to the theater statistics of the German Stage Association , the house only had 116,000 visitors in the 2009/10 season. In the 2011/12 season, the occupancy rate fell further to just 108,000 visitors. The negative trend in visitor numbers continued in the 2012/13 season. According to the final report of the city theater, only 105,000 visitors visited the house. The utilization of individual divisions was just over 50 percent. (Opera 54%; Ballet 51%) The number of subscribers reached an all-time low at 4,313. The downward trend continued unabated in the 2013/14 season. Only 102,555 visitors attended the performances, in the 2014/15 season 101,729 visitors were counted.
A ten-year comparison of the 2004/5 seasons with 2014/15 shows a loss of 28 percent in attendance. All figures are submitted annually to the culture committee of the city of Pforzheim and the citizens for inspection.
management
After the departure of the then artistic director Georg Köhl in 2003, during whose one-year term of office the number of visitors had decreased significantly, the management of the Pforzheim City Theater was no longer an artistic director, but a management trio, consisting of the general music director and opera director Jari Hämäläinen, administrative director Gustl Weber and theater director Jan Friso Meyer transferred. They were followed by Murat Yeginer (drama director), Uwe Dürigen (administrative director) and Wolf Widder (opera director), who were Markus Huber as general music director, James Sutherland as ballet director and the deputies Bettina Lell (also director of the Junge Oper) and Manfred Selzer (administration) to the side. With the expiration of the contracts of Yeginer and Widder in 2015, the triple head of opera, drama and administrative director was abolished again. The arrangement, known nationwide as the “Pforzheimer Theater Model”, was replaced by a two-tier management consisting of an administrative director and artistic director. From the 2015/16 season there was again a double tour at the Pforzheim Theater with Uwe Dürigen as administrative director and Thomas Münstermann as artistic director.
Artistic directors at the Pforzheim City Theater
- from 1810 Friedrich Schirmer (1766–1817);
- ? - 1877/78 Jakob Winter;
- 1878/79 - 81/82 Carl Faust;
- 1882/83 -? Fritz Lawsoni and Ludwig Rosenfeld;
- ? -? Friedrich Kersebaum (1855 -?);
- ? -? Gustav Detloff;
- ? - 1888 Karl Urban;
- 1890/91 - 1911/12 Otto Reuss (1852-?)
- 1912/13 - 14/15 Rudolf Scheurmann and Max Liebl
- 1915/16 - 17/18 Mrs. Genesius
- 1918/19 - 34/35 Max Müller
- 1935/36 Ralf Ebersperg
- 1936/37 - September 1, 1944 Franz Otto
- 1945/46 Georg Sertel
- 1946/47 Otto Friedrich Schöpf (1895-?) 1947/48 Bodo Bronsky
- 1948/49 - 1950/51 Erich Schudde (1909–1978)
- 1951/52 - 1959/60 Franz Otto (1887–1960)
- 1960/61 - 1962/63 Horst Alexander Stelter (1925–1991)
- 1963/64 - 1967/68 Harry Niemann (1920-)
- 1968/69 - 1970/71 Peter H. Stöhr (1924-2004)
- 1971/72 - 1974/75 Heiner Bruns (* 1935)
- 1975/76 - 1996/97 Manfred Berben (1933–2013)
- 1997/98 - 2001/02 Ernö Weil (* 1947)
- 2002/03 Georg Köhl (* 19 ..)
- 2003/04 - 2007/08 Jari Hämäläinen (opera director, * 1963) and Jan Friso Meyer (drama director, * 19 ..)
- 2008/09 - 2014/15 Wolf Widder (opera director, * 1954) and Murat Yeginer (drama director, * 1959)
- from 2015/16 Thomas Münstermann (* 1955)
literature
- Kurt Griguscheit: Contributions to the history of the theater in and around Pforzheim . Ed .: City of Pforzheim. Pforzheim 1987, DNB 970727100 .
- Joachim Becker: Theater for Pforzheim . Ed .: City of Pforzheim. Oktogon, Stuttgart, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-927789-05-4 .
- Nike Luber: Culture for the city and the surrounding area. A portrait of the Pforzheim theater. Edition 05/2005. In: Opera & Dance. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Enz.info - Regioportal ( Memento from October 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ City of Pforzheim (Ed.): Theater for Pforzheim. Stuttgart 1990.
- ^ City of Pforzheim (Ed.): Theater for Pforzheim. Stuttgart 1990.
- ^ The city theater on the Pforzheimer Bündnis für Familie website
- ↑ The Stadttheater Pforzheim at theater.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sandra Pfäfflin: "An intendant should fix it". In: Pforzheimer Zeitung, November 24, 2012 ( Memento from January 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Citizens' information city of Pforzheim. Archived from the original on March 17, 2014 ; accessed on March 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Sandra Pfäfflin: Stadttheater is looking for an artistic director. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung, July 31, 2013 ( Memento from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '22.3 " N , 8 ° 42' 8.8" E