Staatstheater Cottbus

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Staatstheater Cottbus
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Staatstheater Cottbus in 2017
Staatstheater Cottbus
Former namesStadttheater Cottbus
General information
Location Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany
Coordinates 51°45′26″N14°19′32″E / 51.75722°N 14.32556°E / 51.75722; 14.32556
Completed1906 (1906)
Design and construction
Architect(s) Bernhard Sehring
Website
www.staatstheater-cottbus.de

The Staatstheater Cottbus is the only state theatre of the German federal state of Brandenburg in Cottbus. It has its own ensemble presenting plays, operas, operettas, musicals, orchestral concerts and ballet. The theatre had more than 130.000 spectators in 2013. [1]

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History

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Großes Haus, c. 1916

The theatre was built on demand by the citizens of Cottbus, a town flourishing around 1900 due to textile industry. The town assembly decided on 1 November 1905 to build a municipal theatre (Stadttheater) and held a competition. The commission was given to Bernhard Sehring, who had built the 1896 Theater des Westens in Berlin. In the Cottbus building, he combined architecture, crafts, painting and sculpture in Jugendstil.

The theatre was built in only 16 months, and opened on 1 October 1908 with a performance of Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm . The first Intendant, Max Berg-Ehlert  [ de ], established to present a month of operas at the end of a season, because the theatre had no opera ensemble yet. From 1912, the new director Otto Maurenbrecher  [ de ] established an orchestra and opera ensemble. In 1992, the management of the theatre went from the town of Cottbus to the state. Christoph Schroth  [ de ] became Intendant in 1993. [2]

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References

  1. Stadtverwaltung Cottbus (2014-06-20). "Flyer Cottbus: Daten und Fakten 2013" (PDF; 305 kB). Cottbus.de. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
  2. Stephan Märki wird Intendant in Cottbus, nachtkritik.de 17 April 2019, retrieved 21 April 2019.