The Stadttheater Bremerhaven (Bremerhaven municipal theatre) is a theatre in

Bremerhaven Bremerhaven (, , Low German: ''Bremerhoben'') is a city at the seaport of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. It forms a semi-enclave in the state of Lower Saxony and is located at the mouth of the Riv ...

, Germany. Founded in 1867, it serves three genres: opera and other musical theatre, spoken plays, and dance. A theatre built on the present site in 1911 was largely destroyed in

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

; a new house was built in 1952 which incorporated the surviving

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 ...

facade. The smaller ''Bürgerhaus Lehe'', which served as a home before the rebuilding, is currently used as a venue for chamber pieces.

Literature

* Fritz Ernst: ''Das Bremerhavener Theater – ein Beitrag zu seiner Geschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Wiedererrichtung nach dem 2. Weltkrieg''. Stadtarchiv Bremerhaven. Ditzen, Bremerhaven 1981 * Hans-E. Happel: ''Gesetzt den Fall, wir schliessen das Theater – zur Nachkriegsgeschichte des Stadttheaters Bremerhaven 1945–1988''. Nordwestdeutscher Verlag, Bremerhaven 1993, . * Stadttheater Bremerhaven: ''100 Jahre Stadttheater Bremerhaven'' – Eine Festschrift. Bremerhaven 1967. * Stadttheater Bremerhaven: ''100 Jahre Oper am Stadttheater Bremerhaven – eine Dokumentation''. Bremerhaven 1972. * Jürgen Dieter Waidelich: ''100 Jahre Stadttheater Bremerhaven – eine Festschrift'', Nordwestdeutscher Verlag, Bremerhaven 1967. * Manfred Ernst, Kai Kähler, Wolfgang Denker, Dirk Böttger, Anne Stürzer: ''Hundert Jahre Stadttheater Bremerhaven.'' ed.: Stadttheater Bremerhaven; NW-Verlag, Bremerhaven 2011, * Antje Hansen: ''Oskar Kaufmann – ein Theaterarchitekt zwischen Tradition und Moderne''. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2001, (Dissertation at the

FU Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

) * ''Festschrift zur Eröffnung des Stadttheaters Bremerhaven Ostern 1952''. Ditzen, Bremerhaven 1952. * Volker Heigenmooser and Heiko Sandelmann: ''Bremerhaven – einig fürs Theater. Die Sanierung des Stadttheaters Bremerhaven 1997–2000''. Städtische Grundstücksgesellschaft Bremerhaven, Wirtschaftsverlag NW, Bremerhaven 2000, .

External links

Offizielle Homepage des Stadttheaters Bremerhaven
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Stadttheater Bremerhaven
balletbase.com

deu.archinform.net
Skizzen und Bauzeichnungen zum Stadttheater Bremerhaven
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