The Hague theater summer
The Theatersommer Haag is an open-air event on the main square of the city of Haag (Lower Austria).
The theater summer is part of the Lower Austria theater festival . Since 2000, the theater summer has been attended by around 14,500 theater enthusiasts annually in the summer months of July and August.
History of origin
The Theatersommer Haag was realized by a committed young team in the Lower Austrian city of Haag in the summer of 2000 under the leadership of managing director Kurt Reitzinger, Elke M. Hinterholzer and the first director Serge Falck . With the Haager Theaterkeller, a cabaret with 100 seats, which the Kulturverein (KIM) was able to build in 1995 in a 200-year-old vaulted cellar in the center of the city of Haag, based on an idea by the then chairman Kurt Reitzinger, the foundation was created, five years later on the Main square of the Hague to establish a professional theater festival. With a temporary, spectacular grandstand designed by the architectural team noncon: form, the play “The Servant of Two Gentlemen” premiered in the summer of 2000. HaagKultur GmbH was established as the supporting organization. From 2003 to 2008 Adi Hirschal was won over as artistic director. Gregor Bloéb was then artistic director from 2009 to 2013 . After ten years in office, management was handed over from Kurt Reitzinger to Karola Sakotnik in 2010, who headed the theater summer for a year. Gottfried Schwaiger took over the management in 2011 until 2013. From 2014 Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz was director and Maria Reitzinger was managing director of the Haag theater summer. In September 2016 Christian Dolezal succeeded Wagner-Trenkwitz as artistic director.
The performance of Nestroy's Torn , scheduled for 2020, has been postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
The program
- 2000: The servant of two masters by Carlo Goldoni
- 2001: Figaro's greatest day by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
- 2002: All of Shakespeare's works (slightly shortened) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield
- 2003: Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
- 2004: The Imaginary Invalid by Molière
- 2005: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- 2006: Journey through the center of the earth by Jules Verne
- 2007: Around the world in 80 days by Jules Verne
- 2008: The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
- 2009: Cyrano von Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
- 2010: Michael Frayn's sheer madness
- 2011: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
- 2012: The Broken Jug by Heinrich von Kleist
- 2013: Jägerstätter by Felix Mitterer
- 2014: Zerbinetta's liberation of Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando
- 2015: Reset - All at the beginning by Michael Niavarani and Roman Frankl
- 2016: A Strange Couple by Neil Simon
- 2017: Don Quixote by Nicolaus Hagg after Miguel de Cervantes
- 2018: What You Want from William Shakespeare
- 2019: Measure for Measure freely based on William Shakespeare
The grandstand
The grandstand was designed by the architectural group noncon: form. The award-winning construction of this theater structure was exhibited in 2003 in the course of the international theater architecture exhibition ( Pinakothek der Moderne ) as one of the 40 most important and experimental theater structures in the world - from antiquity to the present.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ NÖN: Theatersommer - Dolezal: A new director . Article dated May 3, 2016, accessed September 30, 2016.
- ↑ orf.at - Dolezal replaces Wagner-Trenkwitz in Haag . Article dated April 29, 2016, accessed September 30, 2016.
- ↑ Corona crisis: summer theater: break from Amstetten to Weißenkirchen. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten . May 4, 2020, accessed May 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Further cancellations at the theater festival. In: ORF.at . May 4, 2020, accessed May 6, 2020 .