Staatstheater Darmstadt

The Staatstheater Darmstadt is a four- division home with opera, dance, theater and concert life.

Director of the Staatstheater Darmstadt is the opera director John Dew, who took over the House at the beginning of the season 2004/ 2005. Carriers are the State of Hesse and the city of Darmstadt.

Platforms

In the Big House, which is mainly played by the opera, are 956 seats and 8 seats in the disability box available. The Small House, are given in the predominantly drama and dance performances, has 482 seats and also 8 places in the disability box. Since the restoration, there is also the intimate theater with 120 seats. In the bar before the Kammerspielen find about 60 people who also have a drink here while on a smaller idea.

History and Structure

The State Theatre celebrated in the season 2010/2011 its 179th season and beyond the anniversary of the 300 -year tradition of theater in Darmstadt. Came out the State Theatre from the former national theater, which looks back on a long tradition in the Grand Ducal, former residence of Landgrave of Darmstadt. The long-standing theater tradition of the city began in the 17th century, belonged to a knight games and Sing ballets become part of the court ceremonial of the Landgrave. For the population Theatre is offered by traveling theater companies that built now and again their stages in the residence. At the request of Countess Elisabeth Dorothea the first theater building in Darmstadt was born. The riding hall at Mr. Garden was transformed into a " comedy block", and 1711 - after re reconstruction by architect Louis Rémy de La Fosse - you opened the representative theater building with Christoph Graupner opera Telemachus. However, this baroque theater flourished for only a short time, as financial crises theater use largely brought to a standstill. It was not until almost a century later founded Grand Duke Ludwig I a court theater, which should be open to all population groups. Built by the architect Georg Moller theater building with 2,000 seats and an elaborate stage machinery was opened in 1819. Despite further financial difficulties in the years 1830 to 1848 the theater before 1871 was recorded almost continuously and celebrated with grand opera performances acclaimed successes. Due to the inattention of a lighting technician, the theater burned down in 1871 from complete and could be reopened only seven years later. The reconstruction conducted the Viennese theater architects Hermann Helmer and Ferdinand Fellner.

In 1919, the Court Theatre changed to State Theatre. The former Landgrave's Opera House was the Little House. The director Gustav Hartung (1920-1924 and 1931-1933) rejected the bourgeois theater of illusion and made known nationwide the Darmstadt theater with world premieres of modern authors and sensational productions of classical plays. At the beginning of the Nazi regime Hartung was forced to flee overnight, and the 20 - year-old actress Lilli Palmer, who later came to world fame, had the house because of her Jewish origins leave and emigrated to Paris in 1934. On the night of 11th to September 12th, 1944, both houses of the theater were destroyed by the air raid on Darmstadt. After the end of World War II, a temporary venue was created in the Orangery at first, in which the theater should remain almost three decades. Gustav Rudolf Sellner the director (1951-1961) and Gerhard F. Herring (1961-1971) succeeded especially in the theater, and to build on the tradition of Gustav Hartung his successes.

The State Theatre was renamed in 1972 when the theater moved into the new building of the Darmstadt architect Rolf Prange at the Georg - Büchner -Platz, who won the 1963 nationwide architectural competition. The building that houses three theaters and all workshops and a large part of the scenery magazines under one roof, costing about 70 million DM It was renovated during the years 2002 to 2006 after plans by the architectural offices Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei for around 70 million euros fundamentally. The entire stage technology of the Great House was completely renovated and fire protection and safety improved. A new entrance building now connects the parking garage of the theater with the newly designed and renovated foyer and lobby terrace. Part of the garage was converted into a studio stage chamber games.

Historical Sources

Much of the historically important the printed matter of the Staatstheater Darmstadt is now in the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt. The stock ( G 55 State Theatre Darmstadt) contains, among other things, personnel files of artists, but also correspondence of the directorship, fixtures and work files from opera and drama. The documents date from the period after 1872.

The older records of the court theater and Hofmusikverwaltung are held by the Hofmarschallamtes (stock D 8 ) and in the Cabinet registry (inventory D 12).

The holdings are accessible and can be researched mostly online.

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