The Theater Gießen, official name Stadttheater Gießen (Gießen Municipal Theatre), is a theatre in

Gießen Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univers ...

, Germany, a cultural center for the university city and the region. The main building was designed in Neo-classical style with influences of

Jugendstil ''Jugendstil'' ("Youth Style") was an artistic movement, particularly in the decorative arts, that was influential primarily in Germany and elsewhere in Europe to a lesser extent from about 1895 until about 1910. It was the German counterpart of ...

by architects

Fellner & Helmer Fellner & Helmer was an architecture studio founded in 1873 by Austrian architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer. They designed over 200 buildings (mainly opera houses and apartment buildings) across Europe in the late 19th century and ear ...

and completed in 1906. It has two stages, seats around 700 visitors and presents

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libr ...

, musical, operetta, plays and modern dance theatre.

Literature

* Dieter Zöchling: ''Opernhäuser in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Geschichte, Ereignisse, Interpreten''. Düsseldorf 1983, . * Hans-Christoph Hoffmann: ''Die Theaterbauten von Fellner und Helmer''. München 1966, . * Hans Meyer (ed.): ''Das neue Stadttheater in Gießen. Denkschrift zur Feier der Eröffnung''. Roth, Gießen o.J. 907 * Jo Straeten u.a.: ''Stadttheater Gießen. Festschrift zum 75 jährigen Bestehen''. Stadttheater Gießen, Gießen 1982. * Jost Hermand (ed.): ''Jugendstil''. Darmstadt 1992, . * Magistrat der Universitätsstadt Gießen (ed.): udwig Brake, Eckhard Ehlers, Friedhelm Häring ''Theater vor dem Theater; zur Geschichte des Theaterspiels in Gießen''. Begleitheft zur Ausstellung vom 11. Mai bis 6. Juni 2007 im Stadttheater Gießen, Eigenverlag Stadt Gießen, Gießen 2007. * Manfred Godehardt:
Gießen 2007 – Ein baukulturelles Jubiläumsjahr (2)
- 100 Jahre Stadttheater Gießen'', 13. August 2012 * Stadttheater Gießen (Hrsg.): ''100 Jahre Stadttheater Gießen''. Eigenverlag, Gießen 2007. .

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