Theater on the coal market

Gdansk City Theater (until 1945)

The Theater on the Coal Market , also City Theater (1933–1945 State Theater ) was a classicist square building with a dome on the Coal Market in Gdansk from 1801 to 1945. The Coastal Theater ( Teatr Wybrzeże ) has stood here since 1967

history

Gdansk City Theater

Gdansk City Theater, around 1890

The theater was rebuilt from 1799 to 1801 on the initiative of the Schuch Acting Society . Until then, these had no permanent venue in Gdansk.

It was built on the site of the previous fencing school, according to plans by the city architect Carl Samuel Held . The financing came from a group of shareholders led by the businessman Jacob Kabrun , with the banker Abraham Ludwig Muhl and others. The new theater was opened on August 3, 1801 with August Wilhelm Iffland's play The Father's House .

There were minor changes around 1882 and 1904. In 1934/35 a major renovation took place under the direction of the architect Otto Kloeppel for the exterior design and Otto Frick and Heinrich Pries for the interior fittings. The reopening took place on December 25, 1935. In 1939/40 the building was expanded by Otto Frick.

During the Second World War, the theater was largely destroyed by the air raids on Gdansk .

Coastal Theater Gdansk

Modern coastal theater

Between 1962 and 1966, a modern theater building, the Teatr Wybrzeże , was built on the remains of the old building, based on designs by architects Lech Kadłubowski and Daniel Olędzki.

Personalities

Directors

Max Begemann , previously a singer from 1922

literature

Jerzy Marian Michalak: Contributions to the music and theater history of Gdańsk from the 17th to the 20th century. Berlin 2012.
Peter Oliver Loew : The literary Danzig. Building blocks for a local cultural history. 2012. pp. 185f. , with literature note 20.

Web links

Teatr Miejski Gedanopedia, detailed presentation with historical images (Polish)

Theater Gdansk Gdansk online, with many historical photos (Polish)

Theater Danzig Bildarchiv Photo Marburg, one photo

Gdańsk: Andreas Praefcke City Theater , two photos from the 1930s

Individual evidence

↑ Stephan Wolting: Boards that marked the cultural scenes: The Danziger Theater on the Kohlenmarkt, the Sopot Forest Opera and other theater institutions in the Danzig cultural cosmos at the time of the Free City and during the Second World War . Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2003, p. 10 .
^ Carl Samuel Held Entries at the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin

[1] Stephan Wolting: Boards that marked the cultural scenes: The Danziger Theater on the Kohlenmarkt, the Sopot Forest Opera and other theater institutions in the Danzig cultural cosmos at the time of the Free City and during the Second World War . Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2003, p. 10 .

[2] Carl Samuel Held Entries at the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin