Schauspielhaus [Erfurt]
type: Item
label: Schauspielhaus
description: Theatre building in Erfurt, Germany
description: theater in Erfurt @nl
EUTA building identifier: 5041
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Germany
City: Erfurt
Wikidata source: Q2232099
GPS: Point(11.0249 50.9733)
Address: Klostergang 4, 99084 Erfurt
Web: kulturquartier-erfurt.de
opening date: 1949-01-01T00:00:00Z
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Carthalia ID: 2518
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built 1897 by Georg Weidenbach as a clubhouse for the Geselligkeitsverein Ressource. 1946-1949 used as Theater des Tanzes. 1949 convertedto a theatre by Walther Beck. Opened 29 Aug 1949 as Neues Theater, a municipal drama theatre, with Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris. 1956 renamed Schauspielhaus Erfurt. 1957 addition of a smaller stage. Closed 2002 before the opening of the new opera house, Theater Erfurt. However, Theater Erfurt did not continue to offer self-produced drama performances, leaving Erfurt without a drama company. Since 2013, plans to revive the deteriorating Schauspielhaus building as a cultural centre. 2016 foundation of the KulturQuartier Schauspielhaus cooperative.
closure date: 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z