Stadttheater Klagenfurt – Wikipedia
The Stadttheater Klagenfurt is an urban theater in the city of Klagenfurt am Wörthersee in Austria.
The first theater in Klagenfurt was built between 1605 and 1620 as a ball house for the aristocracy and served their social amusements. Over time, Italian guest performances were increasingly performed, which would be happy to stop in Klagenfurt on their trip from Venice to Vienna. The Ballhaus thus increasingly integrated into the Austrian theater scene of the 17th and 18th centuries and was gradually converted into a theater house. The actual opening as a theater took place in 1737. The theater was subordinate to the land stands of Carinthia. Towards the end of the 18th century, the theater was also gradually opened intellectuals, military and civil servants. The initially wooden theater building was newly built from Stein in 1811. This is referred to as “old theater”.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the “New Theater” in Klagenfurt took place in 1908, since the old was already in a dilapidated state. On September 22, 1910, the new theater was able to Anniversary city theater to be opened. The theater was built by the Viennese architectural office Fellner & Helmer as an almost identical copy of the city theater in Gießen and Gablonz, which were previously built in 1906 and 1907.
Today’s theater was built in a classicist style with a clear influence of Art Nouveau – especially inside.
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Ceiling of the auditorium
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Ceiling paintings on the upper floor
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Inscriptions on the front [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
On the forehead and main entrance side are the memory board and the theater name:
- The memory board is located under the roof. It is prescribed with a podium approach, two stylized columns and covered by a indicated, curved roof gable, which is an allegorical grimace head. In this framework, the table with the following text is located:
In the 60th year of the government
• Francs Josef 1 •
• BUILT •
- Below the roof overhang is the inscription on the front:
• JVBilavms city theater •
- To the left of the inscription is the Carinthian coat of arms and on the right of it is the Klagenfurt city coat of arms; Both are rectangular framed by jewelry garlands, each crowned by a stylized ducal hat. Below the garlands rights are the years: left » 1908 “And on the right” 1910 «.
Conversion and additions in the 20th century [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
In the 1960s, further extensions were made, including the number of standing room was reduced and an extension to the stage house was created. The director was Herbert Wochinz from 1968 to 1992. From 1996 to 1998 the city theater was rebuilt according to plans by Günther Domenig and was grown on the back.
The era nursing [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
From 1992 to 2007 Dietmar Pflegerl was director of the city theater. His directorate, which ended in his death in 2007, is seen as a significant era for the Klagenfurt city theater. Pflegerl changed the style of the three-division theater with socially critical pieces and productions. He won the actors Otto Schenk, Wolfgang Böck, Karl Merkatz and Fritz Karl, the musical stars Uwe Kröger and Rafi Weinstock, the opera singers Albert Dohmen, Danilo Rigosa, Maria Candidda and Sebastian Holecek and the conductors of the well -known musician Billy Joel) , Michael Güttler and Guido Mancusi to the house. As directors regularly staged u. Martin Kušej, Leonard Prinsloo, Wolfgang Böck and Michael Sturminger.
Pflegerl several times the Carinthian author Peter Turrini for acting commands who came to premiere in Klagenfurt. In addition, the Stadttheater Klagenfurt under Pflegerl’s leadership to the jumping board for young talents, e.g. B. for the bass baritone Albert Dohmen. The Carinthian Symphony Orchestra, for short KSO, increased considerably in the Pflegerl era under the chief conductor Guido Mancusi (2001 to 2007). Under Pflegerl’s directorate, the theater was usually busy with over 90%.
The post-nursing era era [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
In 2007 Josef Ernst Köpplinger was appointed director of the Klagenfurt City Theater. He held this function from 2007 to 2012. There he initiated the courage competition for musical entertainment theater in 2010. Under Köpplinger’s directorate, the premiere of the previously lost Cherubini opera Koukourgi in the 2010/11 season, which was broadcast live by the 3SAT television station.
In 2012 Florian Scholz became director. In June 2019 it became known that he should leave the theater early on the 2019/20 season and switch to the Bern Theater. His contract would have run by 2020/21. [first] In November 2019, the German opera director Aron Stiehl was presented as the new director of the Klagenfurt city theater. [2]
In February 2021, Nicholas Milton was the successor to Nicholas Carter as chief conductor of the home in the Stadttheater Klagenfurt Carinthian symphony orchestra (KSO) presented from the season 2021/2022. [3]
Nestroy-theaterproze [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
The Stadttheater Klagenfurt won Nestroy Theater prices in various categories in 2003, 2006, 2011 and 2018.
In 2018, the Stadttheater Klagenfurt was awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize for the best federal state performance. The award -winning play is the Iwanow tragedy, which was performed in a cooperation with the United Bozen Bolzano.
- Günther Domenig, Recent Work, ed. Matthias Boeckl, Springer, Vienna 2005.
- Otto Kapfinger: New architecture in Carinthia / Nova Arhitektura Na Koroskem, ed. Architecture Haus Carärnten, Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg 2005.
- ↑ Florian Scholz leaves city theater. Retrieved on June 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Aron Stiehl new city theater director. In: ORF.AT. 20. November 2019, accessed on November 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Milton new chief conductor of the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra. In: ORF.AT. February 23, 2021, accessed on February 24, 2021 .
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