Theater on the track
The Theater am Gleis is a cabaret theater founded in 1979 by the Initiative Menschen association in Winterthur , Switzerland .
history
Operations began in an old factory building at 18 Paulstrasse. The aim was to promote cabaret and children's theater. The factory hall behind the main train station served as inspiration for the naming. The buildings were demolished in 1989. The performances were temporarily held outdoors under a tent. In 1990 a new venue was found, the “Loge” on Oberen Graben. Seven years later the theater had become too big for the “Lodge” and moved. The new building is located on Untere Vogelsangstrasse and thus again in the immediate vicinity of the main train station.
In 2002 it received the city of Winterthur's culture award, endowed with CHF 10,000, for its services in the cultural field .
The theater is managed by Werner Weilenmann (President), Max E. Keller (Vice President) and Heidi Bachmann.
Ensembles
Six professional ensembles and four working groups are based in the Theater am Gleis. Each ensemble and each working group acts independently.
- Ensemble Theater am Gleis is dedicated to new music and offers four concerts a year.
- Keller & Co is directed by the composer Max E. Keller and stages musical projects, often in collaboration with guests. These included Hans Suter , Hans Hassler , Matthias Ziegler and Hans Koch .
- AHA! tanzt is a contemporary dance company founded in 1990 and directed by Ana Tajouiti .
- Theater Katerland Bravebühne is directed by Graham Smart and Taki Papaconstantinou and mostly stages plays for the whole family.
- Under the name Eva Lenherrs' Projekte , the artist Eva Lenherr presents readings and stage plays from the background of women's literature .
- Theater & Klein is directed by speaker and theater maker Jürgen Klein and is dedicated to various stage projects.
program
The program includes cabaret , improvisation , concerts , dance , spoken theater, children's theater, theater and literary programs.
With JazzAmMittwoch , the concert series musica aperta , the event series Molton , book café and word gallery, Theater am Gleis has for years been an integral part of its program, in which domestic and foreign guest artists are presented. So far, the following have performed or conducted in the Theater am Gleis: Ensemble Sortisatio , Michael Perkampus , Jaap Achterberg , Annett Lang , the Zurich team Improvenös, Theater Marie , Company MAFALDA, Carlos Matos (from Portugal ), Antonio Malinconico , Sandro Schneebeli , Duo Tato Taborda & Alexandre Fenerich (from Brazil ), La Lupa and Claudia Picenoni .
literature
- Tobias Hoffmann-Allenspach: Theater am Gleis, Winterthur ZH . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1838.
Web links
- Website of the Theater am Gleis
- Theater am Gleis on the website of the City of Winterthur
- Theater am Gleis (TaG) in the Winterthur Glossary.
- Website of the Molton concert series
- Solodanza's website at work
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '54.1 " N , 8 ° 43' 24.2" E ; CH1903: 696,804 / 261 638