Theater on the Kö

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Theater on the Kö
legal form GmbH
founding 1994
Seat Dusseldorf , Germany
management René Heinersdorff (Management)
Website www.theateranderkoe.de

The Theater an der Kö is a boulevard theater in Düsseldorf . It is located at Schadowstrasse 11 in the Stadtmitte district and is part of the Schadow-Arkaden shopping center, which was completed in 1994 . Its name refers to the Königsallee shopping boulevard , known as the Kö for short, not far from the theater .

history

Schadow Arkaden

The theater was opened on September 21, 1994 with a ceremony and a speech by the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Johannes Rau and the play Hamlet , a comedy in two acts by Paul Rudnick . The preliminary decisions for the construction of the 400-seat boulevard theater were made by René Heinersdorff , the current theater director, his parents with theater experience, the Arnold family as co-owners of the Schadow-Arkaden and the project developer Walter Brune shortly after the foundation stone was laid for the shopping center in 1992. The name originally intended of the theater - Theater in den Schadow Arkaden - is said to have been dropped after the current name was suggested by the British actor Peter Ustinov , to whom Heinersdorff had reported on his theater plans in Berlin, with the following remark: “Schadow Arkaden? Are they doing Indian shadow plays there? Why don't you call it 'an der Kö'? Everybody knows the Kö. I never go to the Kö with my wife and the credit card together. ” Since the theater opened, many well-known actors have appeared on the stage. The theater also attracted attention when the actors Martin Semmelrogge and Karsten Speck were obliged to serve a prison sentence in addition to their play .

literature

  • Theater on the Kö. The art mind of the René dynasty . In: Rolf Hosfeld (Ed.): Kulturverführer Düsseldorf . Helmut Metz Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-93774-211-3 , p. 22

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ René Heinersdorff's mother Barbara has directed the Theater am Dom in Cologne since 1976 .
  2. ^ René Heinersdorff: Theater an der Kö: Das Theater: Geschichte . Website in the portal theateranderkoe.de , accessed on May 23, 2015
  3. ^ Boulevard theater with big names: Theater an der Kö . Website in the duesseldorf-magazin.info portal , accessed on May 23, 2015

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 31.9 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 50 ″  E