Wallgraben Theater
The Wallgraben Theater in Rathausgasse in the center of Freiburg im Breisgau was founded by a group of theater-loving students in a former wine and air raid shelter in the backyard of Wallstrasse as a small cellar theater ( Kleines Theater am Wallgraben ).
At the first performance on June 16, 1953, A Sleep Prisoner was played by Christopher Fry . At the end of the 1960s, it moved to the basement of the New Town Hall in Rathausgasse. It was also directed by Ingeborg Steiert († 1997) and the actor Heinz Meier († 2013), who was best known for his participation in Loriot's sketches. The theater has around 100 seats and was the first theater in 1975 to stage Loriot skits. In 2003 Meier's niece Regine Effinger took over the management. The actor Hans Poeschl has been a co-owner since 2008 and runs the theater together with his wife Regine Effinger. In 2007, 32,577 spectators attended the 311 performances; in 2010 there were 27,661 spectators at 258 performances, in 2015 a total of 24,038 visitors attended the 229 performances. Since 2004 there has been an open air production in the inner courtyard of the New Town Hall (250 seats) during the summer months.
literature
- 25 years of Wallgraben Theater. Wallgraben Theater, Freiburg im Breisgau 1978.
- Peter Bomans: Avant-garde in the wine cellar. Wallgraben Theater celebrates its 50th birthday. In: REGIO Magazin , Badische Zeitschriften, Freiburg im Breisgau, 20th year 2003, issue 6/2003, pp. 56–57.
Individual evidence
- ↑ City of Freiburg im Breisgau - Statistisches Jahrbuch 2016, p. 193 ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 18, 2017
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 46 ″ N , 7 ° 50 ′ 55 ″ E