Landestheater Coburg

The Coburg State Theatre is a medium-sized three-genre (opera / operetta, drama, ballet ), which is jointly supported by the City of Coburg and the Free State of Bavaria. Situated on the Schlossplatz Coburg classical building has 550 spectator seats.

History

As a former residence of the Dukes of Saxe -Coburg Coburg has an old theater tradition. So it was during the 1630s by Duke Johann Casimir in high school Casimirianum the world premiere of a musical piece of his Hofkapellmeister Melchior Franck. In the Baroque period took place in 1684 under Duke Albrecht the opening of the first Coburg Court Theatre. This had its venue for 100 spectators in the upper hall of the armory in the Lord alley. Participants were primarily court servants and members of the court. After the death of Albert, there was virtually no theatrical performances in Coburg due to lack of money for a long time. Only Duke Ernst Friedrich built in 1764 the ballroom, located on the present castle arcades, in a Playhouse. His son Friedrich Franz took care of the operation of gambling and committed various theater groups on their tours through Germany. For performance came, among others, Mozart operas, pieces of Schiller and Iffland.

After the financial situation of the Duchy had improved and the importance claim was grown by the magnification of Saxe -Coburg and Gotha, Duke Ernst I. in June 1827 own permanent court theater, the Duke of Saxony Coburg Court Theatre. The game was operating alternately in Coburg or Gotha, Coburg, from September to early January, and in May and June, depending on the residence of the Duke and the court. Along with the redesign of the entire Castle Square planned Ernst I also build a new theater building, which was built on the site of the steel mill, where the orphanage was located. On September 17, 1840, the birthday of Duchess Marie, the new theater building was officially opened The Feensee by Daniel Auber, after three years of construction, with the opera. Under Duke Ernst II in particular the Wagner operas were maintained at the theater. The Coburg court theater painter Max Brückner was hired by Richard Wagner as a stage for his Festival in Bayreuth. Ernst II came into his theater and even on and organized play activities. From 1881 to 1883, the operating theater had to be closed because of insufficient funding temporarily.

Following the resignation of Duke Carl Eduard in 1918 the theater was continued at the expense of the State of Coburg in Coburg Theatre. The theater building was finally transferred in 1919 from the private assets of the Duke of the Free State of Coburg. The city of Coburg pledged to continue the game operating under the name Coburgisches State Theatre. Because of the association of the Free State Coburg Bavaria in 1920 Bavaria joined its obligations. This leads to a co-financing (40 %) by the Free State of Bavaria, which has since run under Coburg State Theatre house can also be referred to as the third Bavarian State Theater. There was also a guarantee of existence, which is valid until today.

Building

The design of multi-piece neo-classical building with a foyer, hall of mirrors, Auditorium with three ranks and stage comes from the ducal building inspector Carl Balthasar Harres, a student of Schinkel. The construction was completed by Rudolstädter Baurat Vincenz Fischer- pear from 1838. A similar theater building was erected at the same time the later Gotha City Theatre in Gotha. 1847 the building was completed after the termination of a neighboring building to the missing third in the north. The theater consists of a three-storey central block with the horseshoe-shaped auditorium and square stage house under a low-pitched gable roof and two storey side wings for Corporate and Outbuildings. For the incorporation of other lodges of the middle part of the roof in 1857 increased. The last major renovation of the house and theater technology took place in the years 1970 to 1977.

The Big House has 550 seats today. Since 1985 are also listed with seating capacity of 99 plays, chamber operas and chamber music in the converted studio stage former ducal riding hall on Palace Square.

Performances

1858, the opera was Diana of Solange premiered by Duke Ernst II in the theater. The drama Klaus von Bismarck by Walter Flex had in the fall of 1913 at the court theater and premiered 1978, the opera Momo and the Time Thieves by Mark Lothar.

Overall, the Coburg State Theatre offers approximately 300 performances per season in the Big House (16 productions ). Just as regularly, symphony concerts. Guest appearances will the ensemble to Bamberg, Bayreuth, Erlangen and White Castle in Bavaria.

Ensemble

In 2008, the theater employs 250 permanent employees and around 100 part-time employees. The basis of the musical theater form, the choir of the State Theatre and the Philharmonic Orchestra, in addition to music theater operation per season offers several symphony concerts, children 's and youth programs as well as occasional evenings of chamber music.

Well-known actors and singers who emerged from the Coburg State Theatre, are Günter Mack, Klaus Grünberg, Jacqui Press, Maud Cunitz, Bettina Feddersen, Simone Mangelsdorff, Gottlob Frick and lately Susan Anthony, Veronica Ferres, Brigitte Hahn, Franz Hawlata, Julia Koschitz, Christoph Strehl and Roland motorman.

Directors

  • Tebbe Harms Kleen (1979-1988)
  • Dieter Gackstetter ( terminated without notice in December 2007)
  • Detlef Altenbeck ( in April 2008 elected provisional successor )
  • Bodo buses (since 1 September 2010)

General Music Directors

  • Albert Bing
  • Alfred Ottokar Lorenz (1917-1920)
  • Kurt Schroeder
  • William Schoenherr (1939-1945)
  • Walter Stoschek (1945-1949)
  • Helmut Pape
  • Reinhard Petersen (1976-1980)
  • Paul Theissen (1980-1988)
  • Christian Fröhlich (1988-1995)
  • Hiroshi Kodama (1996-2001)
  • Alois Seidl Meier (since 2002)
  • Roland Kluttig (from 2010)
Acting Casimirianum Coburg Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
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