Raimundtheater

The Raimund Theater ( officially Raimund Theater ) is a theater in the 6th district of Vienna Mariahilf in Wall Street 18-20, which now belongs to the United Stages of Vienna and mainly serves as a venue for musicals.

History

Named after the Austrian dramatist Ferdinand Raimund Theater was founded in 1893 by an association of 500 citizens of the municipality Mariahilf built according to designs by the architect Franz Roth ( 1841-1909 ) and completely illuminated by electric light, on 28 November 1893 ( first performance November 27, 1893) solemnly with Raymond magic game tethered imagination opens ( prologue written by Alfred von Berger). [Note 1]

By the year 1896, the theater was under the direction of Adam Müller- Guttenbrunn. He and his artistic advisor Hermann Bahr made ​​the theater for a speaking stage with classic folk plays that should be a counterweight to the upper middle class " Operettendekadenz ". Alexander Girardi, Eleonora Duse, Max Reinhardt, Louise Dumont and Adele Sandrock performed here.

1907 took over the Jewish director and theater director Sigmund According to Castle ( 1851-1918 ) as head of Raimund Theater, but only for a short time. He commissioned a new production of the play " Die Nibelungen " by Friedrich Hebbel Czeschka, the sets and costumes design. On the performance was omitted for various reasons, but a direct result of intensive study Czeschka with the Nibelungen theme for the Raimund Theatre were the drawings that served the little book "Die Nibelungen " in the publishing Gerlach & Wiedling as a basis.

Under director William Karczag held from 1908 operetta catchment, such as the self-production "The Gypsy Baron" by Johann Strauss in 1908 or Robert Stolz ' "lucky girl " and based on Schubert's music Dreimaederlhaus. From 1921 to 1924, especially speech pieces were played under director Rudolf Beer again.

After 1945 it underwent Rudolf Marik ( 1900-1976 ), who in 1948 led the House until 1976, the operetta with Johannes Heesters, Marika Rokk, Zarah Leander and other famous actors and singers a climax. On Raimundtheater many famous actors got their start, such as Hansi Niese, Paula Wessely, Attila Hörbiger, Karl Skraup.

In December 1968, the Raimund Theatre celebrated its 75th anniversary with a performance of the operetta " The Beggar Student " by Carl Millöcker.

In 1969, the operetta " Giuditta " by Franz Lehár was given again shiny occurred in the Gretl Schörg in appearance before a little later completely withdrew from the stage of life.

After 1976 sporadically musicals already been played. In the years 1984 and 1985, the theater was refurbished. Since 1987 it belongs together with the Theater an der Wien and the Ronacher to the United Stages of Vienna ( GmbH) and has been mainly a venue for musicals.

Well-known musicals in German language, such as Beauty and the Beast with Ethan Freeman and Caroline Vasicek in the leading roles, Dance of the Vampires with Steve Barton and Cornelia Zenz, Wake Up with Alexander Goebel and Rain Fendrich and more recently Barbarella with Nina Proll in the title role, and Eva -Maria Marold, each had their world premiere at the Raimund Theater. In February 2005, the premiere of the German-language premiere of Romeo and Juliet took place in the two title roles with Lukas Perman and Marjan Shaki. Also starring were seen among other Carin Filipcic as a nurse, Mark Seibert as Tybalt, Rasmus Borkowski as Mercutio and Benvolio and Mathias Eden Born as Thomas Mülner as Count Paris. On September 5 the Musical Elisabeth (Musical) is shown for the 20th anniversary of the play.

The award of the initiated in 2000 Nestroy Theatre Prize was in 2011 for the first time instead of at the Raimund Theater.

The Raimund Theater currently has 1,193 seats and 40 standing passengers.

Premieres

• The winemaker, operetta by Carl Zeller, on December 21, 1901
• The lucky girl, operetta by Robert Stolz, on October 28, 1910
• The circus child, operetta by Eysler, on February 18, 1911
• Casimir's Ascension, operetta by Bruno Granichstaedten, December 25, 1911
• The Dreimaederlhaus, operetta by Heinrich Berté, on 15 January 1916
• The old song, operetta by Bruno Granichstaedten, December 21, 1918
• Love to go, operetta by Robert Stolz, on June 22, 1922
• The mine. Drama by Hans Kaltneker, February 6, 1923
• The Swallow's Nest, operetta by Bruno Granichstaedten, September 2, 1926
• The rider of the Empress, operetta by August Pepöck, on April 30, 1941
• Bel Ami, musical by Peter Kreuder, on May 25, 1960
• The Virgin of Paris, operetta by Friedrich Schröder, December 19, 1969
• Dance of the Vampires, musical by Jim Steinman and Michael Kunze, on 4 October 1997 ( until 15 January 2000, 677 performances with 805,000 visitors )
• Wake Up, a musical by Rain Fendrich, on 29 September 2002 ( until 1 January 2004)
• Barbarella ( musical), a musical by Dave Stewart and Rudi Klausnitzer, on 11 March 2004 (until 1 January 2005)
• Rebecca, a musical by Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay, on 28 September 2006 ( until 31 December 2008, 405,000 visitors)
• Rudolf, musical by Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy, from 26 February 2009 to 24 January 2010, ( German -language premiere / premiere of the Vienna version or, co- production with Operetta House Budapest )

Further performances

• A Chorus Line, musical by Robert Sherman dies and Michael Bennett, of October 16, 1987 to July 1, 1988 ( 225 shows, 235,000 visitors, Austrian premiere )
• Les Misérables, Alain Boublil & Claude Musical by Michel Schönberg, by September 15, 1988 to March 31, 1990 ( 400 performances, 420,000 visitors, German -language premiere )
• Phantom of the Opera, musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, of June 9, 1990 to June 30, 1993 ( previously December 1988 to June 1990 at the Theater an der Wien; 1,363 performances, 1.4 million visitors, German -language premiere )
• Kiss of the Spider Woman, musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Premiere November 28, 1993 bis 1994 ( German premiere )
• Rocky Horror Show, musical by Richard O'Brien, 1994, ( seven -week interlude, not by the VBW)
• Grease ( musical), a musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, 1994 to June 1995 ( German premiere )
• Disney's Beauty and the Beast, musical by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman & Tim Rice, of September 28, 1995 to June 29, 1997 ( 560 performances, about 600,000 visitors, German -language premiere )
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, of March 3, 2000 to January 14, 2001 ( 236 performances, about 251,000 visitors, Austrian premiere )
• Hair, musical by Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni & James Rado, of March 10, 2001 to June 30, 2002 ( 385 performances, about 395,000 visitors, Austrian premiere )
• Romeo and Juliet, musical by Gérard Presgurvic, of February 24, 2005 to 8 July 2006 ( German premiere )
• We Will Rock You, a musical by Queen and Ben Elton, from 16 January 2008 to 13 July 2008 ( 203 performances, about 250,000 visitors, Austrian premiere )
• I 've never been to New York, musical with the songs of Udo Jürgens 17 March, 2010 to 15 June 2012 ( 592 performances, about 630,000 visitors, Austrian premiere ( Vienna version ) )
• Elisabeth ( musical), a musical by Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay, September 5, 2012 to February 1, 2014 ( 381 performances, about 412,000 visitors, slightly revised Vienna Version)
• Mamma Mia!, Musical by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Catherine Johnson (since 19 March 2014)