Theater am Käfigturm

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The Theater am Käfigturm is a private theater in the center of the Swiss federal city of Bern . The non-subsidized theater is located at Spitalgasse 4 in the Karl-Schenk-Haus, which was built in the mid-1920s. It offers space for 329 guests and a gastronomic offer outside the theater hall.

history

The founding of the Theater am Käfigturm was based on an idea of ​​the landowner, Karl-Schenk-Haus AG, to set up a cabaret in the building. On September 15, 1967, the company was opened under the direction of Hugo Ramseyer with a program by the clown Dimitri . Initially, mostly pantomime, cabaret and musical performances were shown, but after the theater got into financial difficulties after a short time, the new director Bernhard Stirnemann gave up the musicals and instead included comedies and chanson evenings in the program. In addition, the theater was used by the Bern City Theater as a studio stage.

From 1970 to 1972 the management was in the hands of Heinz Zimmermann. He founded his own ensemble and also played pieces by contemporary Swiss authors. In 1972 Franziska Geissler took over the theater together with Fritz Hauser and, in collaboration with the choreographer Alain Bernard, brought dance performances to the program, including ballet performances by the Basel Theater, and a long-term cooperation with the Kleintheater Kramgasse 6 .

After the house owner decided in the mid-1970s to only rent the theater to individual organizers in the future, in 1979 Roland Morgenegg was again able to win a manager who also took on financial responsibility. In the early 1980s and 1990s, the Stadttheater Bern made frequent guest appearances with various productions, and the house is also regularly used by amateur theaters. In addition to the events already mentioned, the program today also offers stand-up comedy and dialect comedies.

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  1. ↑ a b c d Thomas Keller: Theater am Käfigturm, Bern BE . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1839 f.
  2. ^ Website of the theater , accessed on April 3, 2016