Altes Theater (Düsseldorf)

The Old Theatre (also Grupellotheater ) was a playhouse on the market square in Dusseldorf. The name Grupellotheater recalls that the building had been the former Gießhaus by the Baroque sculptor Gabriel de Grupello. This the Jan Wellem equestrian statue had also poured. The Schauspielhaus on the marketplace was replaced by a 1875 on today's Heinrich -Heine -Allee newly built theater.

History

The old Gießhaus was already used as a theater in 1747, when the Elector Karl Theodor was in Dusseldorf. In 1750, it was as a comedy house in operation. As of 1751 theatrical performances were in the house then regularly given. In 1781, called on art-loving citizens Karl Theodor to improve the Gießhaus. A royal commissioner improved from the building, new decorations at the expense of electors were created. 1805, the theater was converted into a " Bergische national stage." After Dusseldorf had become Prussian, gave King Friedrich Wilhelm III. the previously state-owned buildings located on 11 April 1818, Dusseldorf city, which from then leased it for theatrical purposes. First tenant was the Austrian actor and theater director Joseph Derossi, who staged mainly entertaining performances, as the musical comedy The Donauweibchen in which the only seven -year-old Constance Le Gaye made ​​its debut. The young Albert Lortzingstraße, Rosina Regina Ahles among Derossis ensemble. 1829 was Karl Leberecht Immermann the theater more serious impulses. Between 1831 and 1836 he collaborated with Christian Dietrich Grabbe here and developed the artistic concept of Immermann'schen pattern stage, who wrote the history of theater. 1834 worked in Immermann ensemble Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Julius Rietz as a conductor, a Bookkeeper, a theater doctor, ten men as technical staff, 20 actors and 11 actresses, singers and nine three singers, ten male and seven female singers.

The Regierungsbauräte Vagedes and Götz submitted plans to build a new theater building. The plans were rejected, it was decided to re- build the old theater. In 1831 the corresponding work has been carried out at the old Gießhaus. The cost was 20,000 dollars. 1832 Finally, a portico with four Ionic columns was placed in front of the main facade, designed by the Vagedes - student Anton Schnitzler. Today is the entrance to the council chamber of the city of Dusseldorf in this area.