Theater am Dom

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Theater am Dom
Theater am Dom (entrance and ticket office)
location
Address: Glockengasse 11 (Opera Passages)
City: Cologne
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '19 "  N , 6 ° 57' 4"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '19 "  N , 6 ° 57' 4"  E
Architecture and history
Opened: October 1949
Spectator: 376 seats
Named after: Cologne Cathedral  (1957)
Internet presence:
Website: Theater am Dom

The Theater am Dom is a Cologne boulevard theater in the Cologne-Altstadt-Nord district . It is located in the Opern Passagen on Glockengasse .

History of origin

Hubertus Durek founded the West German Zimmer Theater in Solingen in October 1949 . In Cologne, the company began on the upper floor of a pub on Heumarkt and continued to operate as the West German Zimmer Theater until 1952. At that time, it was a guest in the war-torn Monopoly Hotel, which was acquired by WDR in 1952 and converted into the Wallrafplatz radio station . In November 1957 it moved to a new location at Burgmauer 60 (Komödienstraße) with 150 seats. Since you could see Cologne Cathedral from the theater , it was called “Theater am Dom” from then on.

Todays situation

It kept the name even after moving to the Swiss shopping center ( Glockengasse 11), where a theater with 376 seats was included in the planning. This is where Peter Ustinov's comedy Endspurt began on October 29, 1964 .

Hubertus Durek , who was both namesake and first director, initially staged primarily contemporary drama, for example by Jean Cocteau and Peter Handke . It was only when he received the permanent establishment in the “Swiss Ladenstadt” (today's Opern Passagen) from the Cologne head of culture that the focus was shifted to the boulevard theater. The Theater am Dom has been a non-profit company since 1973. Despite popular audiences, the theater only achieved commercial success when Barbara Heinersdorff and Inge Durek took over the management of the stage in 1976. Barbara Heinersdorff's (1935–2016) son René Heinersdorff (known from the RTL series Die Camper ) also works there as an actor , author and director . The two sons Oliver Durek and René Heinersdorff have now taken over the theater.

The actors who have performed in the Theater am Dom include Kerstin de Ahna , Julia Biedermann , Grit Boettcher , Herbert Bötticher , Volker Brandt , Jochen Busse , Jenny Elvers , Thomas Fritsch , Gunther Philipp , Günter Pfitzmann , Charles Regnier , Barbara Schöne , Martin Semmelrogge together with son Dustin Semmelrogge , Karsten Speck , Wolfgang Spier and Susanne Uhlen .

With 18,000 subscribers, the theater is the leader in Germany.

literature

  • Rolf Hosfeld: Köln Kultur-Verführer , Helmut Metz Verlag, 2005, p. 10f.

Web links

Commons : Theater am Dom  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Daiber , Deutsches Theater seit 1945 , 1976, p. 80
  2. ↑ Peter Fuchs (Ed.), Chronicle of the History of the City of Cologne , Volume 2, 1991, p. 302
  3. ^ Rolf Hosfeld, Köln Kultur-Verführer , 2008, p. 10
  4. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger of November 22, 2007, Open the door for the stars