Theatre of West Pomerania
The Theater Vorpommern is operated in the legal form of a GmbH theater in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Shareholders are the Hanseatic cities of Stralsund and Greifswald, and Putbus. The Theater Vorpommern offers drama, ballet, concerts, operas, operettas and musicals.
Each year, in addition to performances at the main locations open-air performances (Baltic Festival ) both in Stralsund and Greifswald ( on stage at the Harbour Museum, in the monastery Eldena and on the marketplace ), and in other cities Vorpommern take place.
History
The Theater Vorpommern was formed in 1994 through the merger of the Stralsund's theater with the theater in Greifswald. In January 2006, the theater Putbus was incorporated. All three houses have equal voting rights in the shareholders' meeting, where Putbus holds only 5.7 % of the shares and 47.15 % respectively of Stralsund and Greifswald.
After differences of opinion concerning the extension of the contract of the director Anton Nekovář the town of Greifswald announced in April 2009, the shareholders' agreement in its current form with effect from 31 December 2010. During Greifswald the director did not want to continue to employ, the shareholders of Stralsund and Rügen talked for a contract extension from. To accommodate Greifswald, a contract extension to two, it was decided instead of four years, which Greifswald but rejected them. Goal of termination was after presentation of the city of Greifswald an amendment to the partnership agreement so that future decisions of the major shareholders of Stralsund and Greifswald must be unanimous. In contrast, the shareholders declared Stralsund and Rügen, that they would be the city of Greifswald already come to meet on the issue of extension of the contract Nekovars and surprised by the termination. On 28 May 2010, Professor Anton Nekovář was recalled from his post as director without public justification of the shareholders. Since then, the theater of two lawyers is led as CEO, whose contract expires on 31 December 2010. The divisions are managed by the respective division directors; the musical theater division is led by reigning music director and the director of artistic administration offices, as the existing and abberufene director Nekovář held the opera directorate. Since August 2012, Dirk Löschner has worked as a director.
Venues
Greifswald
The first game the permission of the city on a traveling troupe can be shown for the year 1730.
After a fire the venue in the Kuhstraße in 1912, immediately establishing a new theater building, the current theater, including City Hall, adopted and implemented. Middle of the First World War, on 10 October 1915, the new building opened its doors, and a year later the Greifswald theater had its own ensemble. Under director Emanuel Voss, who ran the house with interruptions until 1949, it became a solid place of art. After the Second World War, the theater was open already Greifswald on 17 October 1945. In 1960 it merged for the first time with the Stralsund and the Theater in Putbus auf Rügen to a large multi-branch house. After this connection was dissolved in 1968, the theater Greifswald and Stralsund work since the fall of 1994 under the name " Theater Vorpommern " back together.
Intendant of the theater Greifswald to 1994:
Stralsund
- Main article Stralsund Theatre
The theater Stralsund was founded as a city theater in 1766. Even before that, however, have been proven performances in the city.
Putbus
The theater was built in Putbus 1819 to 1821 under Prince Wilhelm Malte I as a summer theater. After the Second World War was a first reorganization and in the years 1992 to 1998, an extensive reconstruction of the original state.