Stadttheater Lindau

The theater Lindau is the municipal theater of Lindau in Lake Constance. As a guest house, it offers theater performances of various stages of the German-speaking countries, an international series of concerts of chamber concerts and cabaret. In Stadttheater Lindau is also the Lindauer puppet opera.

History of Barefoot Church

The Lindauer City Theatre is housed in a former monastery church. In the 13th century Barfüßermönche came to Lindau and founded one of the first monasteries of the Franciscan order north of the Alps. 1241 the monastery was confirmed by Bishop Heinrich of Constance. End of the 13th century, the western nave was extended and completed in 1380, the choir in the late Gothic form. The church received valuable frescoes, to date, the fresco of the Last Judgment of 1516 by Mathis Miller on the south face of today's stage to receive. During the Reformation, the monastery was dissolved in 1528 and the building fell into the possession of the city. The church was partially used as a salt store. 1658 Barefoot Church was the Protestant Church of the Trinity. 1747/49 was the separation of the choir from the nave. In the choir, a ceiling was installed. On the ground floor the Empire Municipal Library was housed. The Trinity church was closed in 1798 and the church was used henceforth as a barracks, military and fire station as well as a gym. As from 1868, the building was used culturally. In the upper choir, the concert hall was built, and 1886/87, a theater hall in the Barfüßerkirche by the architects Wimmer was built, which was opened on 22 May 1887.

The conversion into a City Theatre 1950/51

In the years 1950 and 1951 the theater by the architect Robert Brown was rebuilt. There in the style of the 1950s, the large auditorium was completely redesigned with 800 seats, bricked up the windows and installed an indirect room lighting. The large oval ceiling was designed by the sculptor Mezger with a relief: riding the muse Thalia on the Pegasus. On the south wall of the former Franciscan Church of the new stage house was built. In stage two the house foyers were completed in 1953 in the amount of the first and second rank, which today serve as foyers and their establishment in the 1950s was completely preserved. While the exterior facade, the entrance area and the established in the former choir concert hall can ( now seat of the Lindauer marionette opera ) the former church still recognize apply auditorium and foyers - consistently designed in the style of the 1950s - the first theatrical monument of Germany after the Second World War, which is now a protected monument. On 19 May 1951, the theater was opened with Mozart's Marriage of Figaro solemnly in a performance of the Bavarian State Opera.

The theater Lindau today

The actor Josef Meinrad, Bernhard Minetti, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Maria Becker, Gert Westphal, Martin Benrath, Christine Oster Mayer, Walter Reyer, Christiane Hörbiger, Heribert Sasse to Michael Lesch, Bruni Lobel and Marion Kracht or Christian Kohlund guest appearances in recent years in the Municipal Theatre.

Apart Chamber concerts will find cabaret and cabaret events, meetings and conferences such as the weeks of psychotherapy instead.

Lindauer Marionettenoper

It was founded in 2000 by Bernhard Leismüller. About 100,000 people have since been a guest. The ensemble among others include 12 puppeteers and more than 400 dolls. First, the marionette opera played in a makeshift; now on a built- in stage theater. Since 2010, the marionette opera also has a mobile stage and can thus offer guest appearances outside.