Theater Neumarkt Zurich

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Theater Neumarkt Zurich

The Neumarkt (formerly: Theater Neumarkt or Theater am Neumarkt ) is an ensemble theater on the square of the same name in the old town of Zurich , which has stood for innovative and experimental theater since 1966 with its unique profile. Under the motto LOVE PLAY FIGHT, in three categories of playground, theater and academy introduced in 2019, the collective management consisting of Hayat Erdoğan, Tine Milz and Julia Reichert and a permanent team of almost 50 employees from the arts, technology and administration are researching new ones Forms and narrative styles. With the three divisions, the management team would like to establish a barrier-free think tank, a playground for ideas and inspiration, a laboratory for aesthetic experiments and keep the moving profile of Neumarkt alive.

The Neumarkt theater hall, which can be used flexibly, can accommodate up to 170 spectators, depending on the room situation. A small secondary venue, called Chorgasse after its location , has up to 40 seats. The theater's legal entity is Theater am Neumarkt AG, which is majority owned by the city and canton of Zurich .

history

The Neumarkt 5 building in Zurich, which is attached to the Bilgeriturm and which now houses the theater, was built or converted by David Morf in 1742 for the shoemaker's guild , but was only used as a society house for around 50 years. After the French Revolution , the house was sold, housed a girls' school until 1877 and in 1888 became the property of the German workers' education association Eintracht Zürich , where the building became an important meeting place for the workers' movement in Zurich. Among other things, held Leon Trotsky and Vladimir I. Lenin , who lived in the nearby Spiegelgasse during his Zurich exile here again and again.

In March 1921, the Swiss Communist Party was founded in the former guild house . In 1933 the house came into the possession of the city of Zurich. From 1948 to 1960, the gay organization DER KREIS organized 5 large festive events in the theater of the former “Eintracht” restaurant on Neumarkt. Even today, next to the theater, there is a restaurant in the building, which has also been the seat of the Hottinger guild since 1956. The theater hall is cleared twice a year for guild events.

In the 1960s there was movement in the Zurich theater scene, which slowly opened up to the modern and "experimental". In 1965 a guest performance was set up in the Hottinger guild house under the direction of the administration department of the Zurich city president. On January 12, 1966, the Theater am Neumarkt was officially founded under the artistic direction of Felix Rellstab. It opened with The Garden Festival , the first work of the then young Czech author and later President Václav Havel . Silvia Mey, Nelly Rademacher, Irmgard Paulis, Martin Kempf, Mathias Gnädinger , Peter Oehme , Giovanni Früh, Hermann Brand, Paul Lohr and Meinhard Zanger performed on stage . Swiss authors (including Walter Vogt ) and works by Sławomir Mrożek , Harold Pinter , Samuel Beckett and others were listed. Eugène Ionesco , today the most played French playwright outside of France, directed his play himself.

In 1971 Horst Zankl took over the management. The revolutionary introduction of a self-determination and co-determination system , in which all theater employees voted on the repertoire and the theater's interests, made the house known throughout the German-speaking world. Zankl opened his season with Peter Handke's ride across Lake Constance and brought Fleisser, Kroetz , Valentin , Horváth , Walser and Weiss to the stage.

Under the direction of Luis Bolliger (1975 to 1979) there were twelve Swiss premieres and world premieres.

From 1979 to 1983 Helmut Palitsch directed the theater. The program included Brecht , Beckett , Horváth , Brasch and Ulrike Meinhof's play Bambule .

From 1983 to 1988, authors from Switzerland and the GDR as well as modern classics shaped the program. Under the direction of Peter Schweiger, Sunday matinees were established for current productions as well as for current political events.

The German director Gudrun Orsky began her time as director in 1989. She opened programmatically with Clara S. von Elfriede Jelinek .

In 1993 Volker Hesse and Stephan Müller took over the house. The productions Top Dogs by Urs Widmer and Elective Affinities by Goethe found international recognition and were invited to the Berlin Theater Meeting.

From the 1999/2000 season, Crescentia Dünßer and Otto Kukla directed the Theater am Neumarkt. They presented a young ensemble with young directors and authors. The productions Memory and Stone Ash were invited to Tehran and Stabat Mater / Inconspicuous Changes to Moscow and St. Petersburg.

From the 2004/05 season, Wolfgang Reiter was director. In addition to cultivating contemporary drama, new forms, particularly those inspired by music and dance theater, found their place in the program.

From 2008 onwards, the two Swiss directors Barbara Weber and Rafael Sanchez directed the Neumarkt Theater. In addition to the co-directors, Laurent Chétouane, Martin Kušej, Stephan Müller and Christoph Schlingensief have staged since then.

Peter Kastenmüller and Ralf Fiedler managed the house from 2013 to 2019 . With around 18,000 tickets sold, the theater was, according to the NZZ, on average in the last five years in the 2014/2015 season. The production of Jakobs Ross by Silvia Tschui (director: Peter Kastenmüller) was invited to the second Swiss Theatertreffen in 2015, and in 2019 Café Populaire by Nora Abdel-Maksoud.

From the start of the 2019/2020 season, Hayat Erdoğan, Tine Milz, and Julia Reichert will manage the house as a collective. The directorship is committed to an expanded concept of theater by means of three newly established branches: theater, playground and academy. This continues the tradition of the house as an ensemble theater and place for artistic experimentation.

Directorate

literature

Web links

Commons : Theater am Neumarkt Zurich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ History - City of Zurich. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ The rudder Directorate rumgerissen, the Zurich theater Neumarkt extended. on: nachtkritik.de , November 3, 2015, accessed November 8, 2015.

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