Zimmertheater Tübingen
The Tübingen theater room located on the picturesque Neckar front only a few meters from the Hölderlin Tower in Tübingen Bursagasse.
In 1958 it hosted the independent theater group Thespis a fixed stage. After the theater initially existed as a registered association, it was transformed in the 1970s into a GmbH. Main shareholder is the city of Tübingen.
History
The room theater was recorded for the first time on December 6, 1958, John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. Nationwide attention was the dancer and artistic director Salvatore Poddine from the year 1967, when also the designer Frieder Grindler designed the theater posters. Transitional headed after him George Tabori room theater, on May 2, 1972 staged just the premiere of his " clown " here. In these years, the cellar at the Bursagasse was extended to a second stage space, so since then either in the " room" on the Neckar can be played with 60 spectators or in the " vault " with 80 seats. Even the foyer is used for readings and small concerts. The room also recorded theater and the former cinema LIONS in the Kornhausstraße and created together with the Cultural Department of the City of Tübingen and the comedienne and actress Petra Afonin a game plan. Shown here V.A. Cabaret and musical evenings.
After Tabori initiated sequentially Helfrid Foron (until 1979 ), Siegfried Bühr, Hartmut Wickert, Thomas Bockelmann ( 1988-1993 ) and Crescentia Dünßer, this together with Otto Kukla, the small theater, which until 1998 had his own ensemble. They were followed in 1996 as a director and each as directors of the company Klaus Metzger and 2002 Vera storm.
In 2007, the current director Axel Krauße and Christian Schäfer started under the playing time motto " to work" again with a fixed ( mini) ensemble. 2009 caused the poor ticket sales of the summer theater production of the theater room an urgent financial support from the city of Tübingen, in order to avert insolvency. Among the season Motti ' very classic ... ' and ' let us entertain you ', 2010 was, however, financially, artistically and from the public response when seen one of the most successful in the history of the theater.
The season 2011/2012 under the motto " Family Ties". In addition to classics as well as the world premiere of Christian Lugerths grotesque is " Daedalus only came to Panama " and showed an adaptation of Shakespeare's " Richard II" by the artist collective " rags brothers." There is also cooperation with the Brandenburg and the Theater in the attic, Berlin.
On 3 March 2012, the theater room Tübingen was awarded the Culture Prize of the Community Foundation of Tübingen, which is endowed with 10,000 euros.
Guest engagements and guest appearances in other venues
The room boasts a theater in a long list of guest engagements of known theater people, and these refer in their vita like on their activities in the vicinity of Hölderlin's Tower.
The room theater was also invited to other cities, it has appeared in the season 1977/78 with Dario Fo farce " The thief, who did not come to harm" in various European cities.
2009, the small theater was first represented by Werner Fritsch's "Bring Me the Head of Kurt Cobain " at the Ruhr Festival and in 2010 with the German premiere " Zastrozzi " of the Canadian playwright George F. Walker and with the premiere of " The Lovers - Haberin " from Zimmertheater House author Joachim Zelter. At the Festival 2012, the German -language premiere of Anna Jablonskajas mono dialogs There is no end are shown.
In the city's theater culture, the theater room shares since 1986, alternating with the State Theatre of Tübingen and the theater Lindenhof responsibility for an 'open air theater " - presentation to Tübingen summer theater, be " recorded " in the Tübingen places.