Schauspiel Köln
The spectacle of Cologne is the traditional exhibition venue in Cologne. It, together with the Cologne Opera and other houses the stages of the city of Cologne. The heritage protection building has 830 seats in the Big House, 120 in the locksmith and 60 in the refreshment room. In addition, the Halle Kalk is recorded with 200 seats. As an interim venue during the ongoing, extensive renovation work is from the season 2013/14 ( September 2013 ) Depot 1 and Depot 2 on the former Carlswerk Schanzenstraße in Cologne- Mülheim.
History
The history of the Cologne theater begins in the Middle Ages. A first house was built in 1782 in the lubricating road that was called then later " Comedy Street ". A successor building from 1829 was destroyed in a fire in 1869. 1872 a new house was built on Glockenstrasse.
In May 1898 the New Habsburgerring was decided. According to the draft of Carl Moritz, a building was built in the Neo-Baroque with restaurant and garden terrace. The house completed in 1902 had 1,800 spaces and cost 3.9 million Reichsmarks.
Cologne now had two large stages, the first business ran as a "united city theater " from the season 1906/ 07 as an opera house and theater, but were out together. In the new theater were mainly operas, listed in the " old" house on Glockenstrasse drama and operetta. The operation of both houses took Julius Hofmann, director of the Schauspielhaus.
1920-1945
Director Gustav Hartung committed in the 1920s known as Berlin actor Heinrich George to Cologne Stage, which the house was known nationwide. 1929 should Bertolt Brecht 's Threepenny Opera are listed in the playhouse, the conservative Centre Party would prevent this. With the assistance of the then mayor of Cologne, Konrad Adenauer, the piece was defused and was allowed to be listed.
At the time of Nazi rule, Nazi followers was Alexander Spring director at Cologne Schauspielhaus. During the war, the two houses were destroyed in the bell lane and on Habsburgerring or badly damaged. In August 1945, the theater was able to give in replacement game sites such as the auditorium of the University as the first theater in the British occupation zone again ideas. In addition, a room in a diamond -Joest - Museum at Ubierring was expanded to " chamber play" and used in accordance to 1994.
New at Offenbachplatz
1957 were the stages of their temporary venue in the auditorium moved into a newly built house on the so-called multi-genre Offenbachplatz, have been performed in the opera and operetta, ballet and drama. In 1962, immediately next to the completed also designed by William Riphahn new Playhouse and opened the robbers in the staging of the later director Oscar Fritz Schuh with Klaus Jürgen Wussow as Karl Moor with Schiller. Federal President Heinrich Luebke visited this notion.
1968 Hans Günther Heyme was senior director of the Schauspielhaus, who saw with his unconventional implementations of pieces for controversy. He also began a close collaboration Wolfgang Schadewaldt to bring his translations of Greek dramas in Cologne on stage. Heyme was replaced in 1979 by Jürgen Flimm.
1985 took over from Klaus Pierwoß Flimm. Pierwoß 1989 was the first director who brought the East German director Frank Castorf with a production of Hamlet at a West German theater. It was followed by the director Torsten Fischer, Günter Krämer, Marc Gunther and Karin Beier. On January 11, 2013, Beier adopted as retiring director with her own first staging of an ancient substance, The Trojan Women by Euripides. These were based on the processing of Jean -Paul Sartre.
Presence
The Schauspielhaus should actually be demolished and rebuilt as part of the opera renovation from 2010 to 2013 on the neighboring property. Having withdrawn for reasons of cost of the new version so much that this seemed hardly worth urged citizens initiative "Courage to culture. Content before facade " the preservation of the listed building and led by a citizens' initiative, in April 2010, agreed to the Council of the City of Cologne. Thus, the house remains and can werden.2011 redeveloped the rehabilitation works were advertised throughout Europe. In June 2012, the House moved temporarily into the EXPO XXI in the Agnesviertel on Gladbach Wall and serves as an interim venue. About the progress of the renovation work informed a built in October 2012 Infobox renovation.
Since August 2007 Karin Beier director of the Cologne Theatre, Rita Thiele is chief dramaturge and deputy director of the Water and Patrick Bauer is the managing director. Beier will switch to the season 2013/2014 at the German Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. With the approval of the Council of the City of Cologne Main Committee from November 7, 2011 Stefan Bachmann since September 1, 2013 Director of the House. House directors have passed since the beginning of the directorship of Bachmann ( season 2013/14 ) next to the directors themselves Angela Richter, Rafael Sanchez and Moritz Sostmann. Bachmann is the same budget to work with as its predecessor.
Awards
With the beginning of the directorship of Karin Beier the spectacle of Cologne is represented annually with productions at the Berlin Theatre Meeting. 2007/2008, Danish- Austrian artist duo SIGNA was invited by The Ruby Town Oracle and 2008/2009 request concert, directed by Katie Mitchell. Three productions were 2009/2010 here: Kasimir and Karoline, a co-production with the NT Gent and directed by Johan Simons, The Dirty, the ugly and the Commons, directed by Karin Beier and Contracts of the merchant, a co-production with the Thalia theater. In the season 2010/2011 was the spectacle of Cologne with Karin Beier's staging of the work / Im Bus / A fall and The Cherry Orchard, directed by Karin Henkel in Berlin as a guest.
2010, the Schauspielhaus at the annual critics' poll of the magazine Theater -Pur was voted the best spoken theater in North Rhine -Westphalia and of the journal Theater heute "Theatre of the Year". Furthermore, Dirty ugly by Ettore Scola and the commons and Ruggero Maccari, directed by Karin Beier for " Production of the Year ", the highest award was named in the German-speaking theater world. The production was also nominated for the Nestroy Theatre Award in the category "Best German -language performance" and won the fist prize in 2010 for " Best Art Direction ". The fist prize also Karin Beier in the category " Best Director " for The Golden Fleece (2009) and Johannes Schütz in the category " Best Art Direction " for Das Werk / Im Bus / A fall (2011) was awarded.
At the end of the seasons 2009 /10 and 2010/11 selected critics in a poll of the magazine The German stage the spectacle of Cologne at the best theater in the category " Convincing overall performance " and the production of Elfriede Jelinek's drama The work / Im Bus / A fall to best of 2011. Jelinek the trilogy was also excellent today of theater as a " production of the Year ". 2011, the Cologne Theatre was again called " Theatre of the Year " ausgezeichnet.2011 and 2012 received the spectacle in a survey of eight critics and critics of the award The best theater in NRW.
2013 the spectacle with two productions was invited to the 50th Berlin Theatre Meeting: journey through the night of Mayröcker (director Katie Mitchell) and the staging of Rats by Gerhart Hauptmann ( Director Karin Henkel), the XXI season opening of the EXPO in October 2012 Premiere celebrated.
2013 the spectacle of the theater festival in Avignon was invited in July with his production journey through the night on texts by Mayröcker directed by Katie Mitchell.
Conversion and rehabilitation
After the initial plans for demolition and new construction have been prevented by a citizens' initiative, which is a listed Playhouse is now extensively renovated along with the Opera House between 2012 and 2015 according to designs by architects HPP Cologne and theater projects Daberto colleagues Munich and renovated. While the much-needed work from the season 2012/2013 the spectacle is no permanent home. Alternative venue during the renovation period was until the end of 2012/ 13, the Expo XXI on Gladbach Wall. From the season 2013/14 ( September 2013 ), the drama recorded Depot 1 (about 600 seats) and Depot 2 (about 250 seats) on the former Carlswerk in the Schanze district in Cologne- Mülheim, a large detached former production hall of the cable manufacturer Felten & Guilleaume. Both halls can be played in parallel.
Friends of
The play is determined by the Sponsors Friends of the Cologne Theatre in the Art Salon: support (own spelling Friends of the Theater COLOGNE in KUNSTSALON COLOGNE ), which invites, among others, to rehearsal visits, discussions with actors, playwrights and directors as well as tours.