Landestheater Schwaben
The State Theatre Swabia is a beheimatetes in the Upper Swabian Memmingen ensemble. The main venue of the ensemble is the Municipal Theatre Memmingen. Director of the ensemble since 1997, Walter Weyers. As Landesbühne the country Schwaben theater is supported by a special purpose association that consists of a consortium of 21 cities, towns and districts. Thus, the ensemble plays at its headquarters in Memmingen, but met its cultural mandate beyond. With guest appearances the country Schwaben theater is not only in Bavaria, but also for example in Baden- Württemberg, Hesse, but also in Austria and Switzerland go.
- 4.1 Actors
- 4.2 playwrights
History
Origin
According to the records of the town chronicle theater was played in the Middle Ages in the free imperial city. Ancestors of today's State Theatre Swabia was formed after the 1900 Kraft: Companie who rehearsed several pieces in Memmingen.
After the First World War, the city was an integral stage location of the Bavarian State Theatre in Munich. From 1937, the stage was independently and called Bavarian stage seat Memmingen. The Memminger ensemble was after the Second World War, one of the first theaters in West Germany, the 1945 could take the game operation.
Today
Today, a total of eleven new productions each season are offered, of which seven are played at the Big House, three in the studio and one on the coffee house stage. The program ranges from the classics to contemporary literature. Also known is the theater for his musical theater productions that brings the pure ensemble cast innovate on stage. With the heavy-metal opera trilogy, Clytemnestra, Hel and Lilith Walter Weyers created a new theatrical genre. The theater at the Swiss mountain was founded in 1990 as a second venue and studio stage. Four productions are held each season.
As part of the annual Bavarian Theatre Festival, the National Theatre was awarded a prize in several times. 2006 found the Bavarian Theatre Festival for the third time in Memmingen instead. The theater was awarded a total price for the conceptual idea and artistic realization of productions Hecuba, masked and Memminger calls.
Premieres on LTS
Director since 1945
- Erich Schmidt, 1945 - 1949
- Wilhelm List - Diehl, 1949 - 1953
- Erich Schmidt, 1953 - 1960
- Bernd Hellmann, 1960 - 1972
- Alf Reigl, 1972 - 1975
- Hans Thoenies, 1975 - 1979
- Peter H. Stöhr, 1979 - 1990
- Norbert Hilchenbach, 1990 - 1997
- Walter Weyers, 1997 - present
Known members of the ensemble
Actor
Playwrights
- Claudia Roth (Assistant )
Venues
The Great House is located in the historical building of the Municipal Theatre Memmingen and has 400 seats. Since the theater production, which was completed in 2010, the house also has a studio stage. This can be variable with chairs up to 99 seats. In the theater lobby, there is also the so-called coffee house stage with around 60 seats.
Regularly the State Theatre screenings during its Abstechertätigkeit alongside modern theaters, town halls and cultural centers and the historical theater in Kaufbeuren and Kempten.