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Theater Bonn (also known as the Stadttheater Bonn) is the municipal theatre company of Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is an organization that produces operas,
The history of theatre in Bonn dates back to the time of the electors. End of the 17th century, a court theatre was established at the Electoral Palace, where French and Italian troupes played. In the 18th century, an amateur theatre was established for German plays (''Nationaltheater''), directed by
Theater der Bundesstadt Bonn
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musicals
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement ...
, ballets, plays, and concerts. It operates several performance venues throughout the town: for music theatre, the and for plays, and the Choreographisches Theater for ballet and dance.
History
The history of theatre in Bonn dates back to the time of the electors. End of the 17th century, a court theatre was established at the Electoral Palace, where French and Italian troupes played. In the 18th century, an amateur theatre was established for German plays (''Nationaltheater''), directed by Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann
Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann (30 November 1746, Berlin; 20 May 1796, Hanover) was a German actor, writer, and stage director. He wrote the text of the famous operatic Schauspiel mit Gesang ''Adelheit von Veltheim'', with music by Christian ...
from 1778 to 1784, who staged the premiere of Schiller's ''Die Verschwörung des Fiesko zu Genua
''Fiesco'' (full title – ''Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua'', or ''Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa'') is the second full-length drama written by the German playwright Friedrich Schiller. It is a republican tragedy based on the historical co ...
'' on 20 July 1783. The new French government destroyed the court theatre in 1797.
In 1826, citizens built their own play house. A new building was opened in 1848, marked by Beethoven's overture '' Die Weihe des Hauses'' (The Consecration of the House). The house became the municipal theatre in 1859, with performances by the Cologne theatre. Bonn dates the history of its responsibility for the theatre back to that year. The Bonn theatre operated with its own ensemble for plays from 1902, for opera from 1935. The theatre was destroyed by bombing during World War II in July 1943.
After World War II, temporary venues for theatre were a university hall, a gymnasium, a cinema, and the ''Prachtbau'' of the , completed in 1909. In 1965, a new theatre was opened on the Rhine which serves as today's opera house. Intendant
An intendant (; pt, intendente ; es, intendente ) was, and sometimes still is, a public official, especially in France, Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. The intendancy system was a centralizing administrative system developed in France. In ...
focused on works by William Shakespeare, continued by his successor (1970–1981). Intendant Claude Riber Claude may refer to:
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* Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
* Claude (surname), a list of people
* Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etch ...
invited international singers to perform opera, while plays focused on Austrian contemporary drama, initiated by .
Plays are performed in three venues: the , the , and the ''Werkstatt'' (workshop) in the opera house. Venues for experimental theatre and children's theatre are the ''Alter Malersaal'' and the Beuel area. , Generalintendant from 1997 for eleven years, organized from 1992 with the dramatist Tankred Dorst a biennial festival for European contemporary theatre, ''Festival Bonner Biennale – Neue Stücke aus Europa''. From 2013, Bernhard Helmich
Bernhard Helmich (born 13 August 1962) is a German theatre manager.
Activities
Born in Idar-Oberstein, from 1981 to 1987 Helmich studied musical theatre directing with Götz Friedrich as well as literature and musicology in Cologne and Hamburg; ...
has been Generalintendant. The Theater Bonn collaborates with the festival Beethovenfest.
Literature
* , Gérard Schneilin (ed.): ''Theaterlexikon 1. Begriffe und Epochen, Bühnen und Ensembles.'' Rowohlts Enzyklopädie im Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1986, 5th edition, 2007, .References
External links
*Theater der Bundesstadt Bonn
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