Winterthur Theater

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Winterthur Theater
Theater Winterthur on St. Georgen-Strasse

The Theater Winterthur - The international guest theater (formerly Theater am Stadtgarten ) is a guest performance company in Winterthur , Switzerland . The building with a lead roof was erected on June 4, 1978 and opened on October 5, 1979 with Mozart's Die Zauberflöte . It is close to the city ​​garden - but not directly adjacent, slightly outside the old town in a central location.

meaning

The Theater Winterthur is a municipal company in Winterthur with around 70 employees and is the largest guest theater in Switzerland. Many well-known theaters from abroad, especially theaters from German-speaking countries, are regular guests. B. the Burgtheater Vienna, the State Theater Stuttgart , the Thalia Theater Hamburg, the Schauspielhaus Hamburg , the German Theater Berlin or the National Theater Mannheim . Opera and dance productions also come to Winterthur, for example the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, the Thuringia Ballet or the Aalto Theater in Essen. In addition, many tour companies, such as the Landgraf concert management , are regularly on the program. The theater has around 55,000 admissions per season, which corresponds to an occupancy rate of around 60%. With tickets between CHF 25.- and 75.-, the admission prices are aimed at a wide audience. The theater attracts mainly visitors from the city and the surrounding communities, but also from the region and from abroad.

management

The Theater Winterthur is operated by the Department of Culture and Services of the City of Winterthur and is therefore politically subordinate to the City Presidium (Head of the Department of Culture and Services) and operationally to the cultural department.

  • Overall management: René Munz (since June 1, 2014)
  • Program director: Thomas Guglielmetti (since September 1, 2010)
  • Technical management: André Schwabe (since September 1, 2011)

Thomas Guglielmetti, who was responsible for the program, succeeded Gian Gianotti, who was artistic director from April 1, 2000 to May 31, 2010. In the past, Guglielmetti has worked as a dramaturge at the Stuttgart State Theater , the Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin, the Schauspielhaus Graz and the State Theater Mainz .

House

Theater Winterthur, foyer

The theater building, built in 1979, includes a foyer with audience cloakrooms, the auditorium, the stage with side and backstage areas, as well as the technical operating rooms and artist cloakrooms. There is direct access to the parking garage. There is also a restaurant attached to the foyer in the house, which has been operated by Theater Winterthur itself since September 2014.

The auditorium on the large stage offers between 787 and 822 seats (depending on the use and size of the orchestra pit) and does not have columns. There is standing room in the high parquet area on the right-hand side, but this is only sold when there are no more seats available. In the spacious foyer, the theater offers various artists the opportunity to do art on site . Smaller productions - especially from the field of children's and youth theater - can also be shown here on a mobile stage.

The building, a major work by the Zurich architect Frank Krayenbühl , has been in the cantonal inventory of buildings worthy of protection since 2012. Plans to replace it with a new building (including conference facilities and a hotel) were abandoned in September 2016.

game schedule

Theater Winterthur's repertoire includes all categories and many languages. There are operas , operettas , musicals , drama , children's theater and dance offered. In addition, pieces in English or French can be heard regularly. The theater offers around 150 programmed performances (guest performance evenings), increasingly in the form of co-productions, e.g. B. with the Musikkollegium Winterthur , the Theater Kanton Zürich or the Children's Dance Theater Claudia Corti. The theater is also rented to other organizers .

Visitor numbers

season 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16
Total ideas 130 158 155 131 144 114 118 116 111 111 125 187 158 165 178 155
Total visitors 57,676 64,740 60,497 55,788 55,952 49,314 46,154 48,998 44,344 43,030 44'443 59,812 59,387 54,879 53,414 52,722
Average visitor numbers 444 410 390 426 389 433 391 422 399 388 355 320 376 333 300 340

Source: Swiss Theater Association

literature

Web links

Commons : Theater Winterthur  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release: Thomas Guglielmetti new program director at Theater Winterthur. ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. March 22, 2016. Retrieved March 30, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stadt.winterthur.ch
  2. ^ Johanna Wedel: City stops project - Winterthur theater stops. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 23, 2016.
  3. ↑ Swiss Theater Association: Visitor statistics for the SBV member theaters 2015/16 . Retrieved October 15, 2017.


Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '7.4 "  N , 8 ° 43' 40"  E ; CH1903:  697128  /  262,053