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The Theater am Hechtplatz is a theatre in the German-speaking Switzerland situated at Limmatquai in Zürich. Founded in 1959 as a Cabaret, it's owned and provided by the government of the city of Zürich. History To give a solid performance venue to the Swiss cabaret, ''Theater am Hechtplatz'' was founded on the initiative of Dionysius Gurny, secretary of Emil Landolt, then the mayor of the city of Zürich. On 25 April 1959 the opening took place with the program "Eusi chliini city" by the Cabaret Fédéral. The city loaned the theater to Otto Weissert, director of the Cabaret Fédéral, under the preserve that it had to serve temporarily as a second stage of Schauspielhaus Zürich. Schauspielhaus soon suspended for financial reasons, the Cabaret Fédéral was resolved, and Weissert was appointed as director of Schauspielhaus. In 1961 the operation of the theater was therefore associated to a department of the Zürich mayor's office, the present ''Präsidialdepartement''; since 19 ...
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Limmatquai
''Limmatquai'' () is a street in the Switzerland, Swiss city of Zurich. It is named after the Limmat, and it follows the right-hand (eastern) bank of that river for about through the ''Altstadt (Zürich), Altstadt'', or historical core, of the city. The street was once important for both road and public transportation, but today sections of it form a pedestrian zone shared with Trams in Zürich, Zurich's trams, effectively forming a northern extension of the ''Quaianlagen (Zürich), Seeuferanlage'' promenades that ring the shores of Lake Zurich. The ''Limmatquai'' has its southern end adjacent to the ''Quaibrücke, Zürich, Quaibrücke'' () and Bellevueplatz, Bellevue square, where the Limmat flows out of Lake Zurich. Its northern end is at the ''Bahnhofbrücke, Zürich, Bahnhofbrücke'' () and ''Central, Zürich, Central'' plaza. Between the and the , the river is crossed by four other bridges all of which connect to the ''Limmatquai''; from south to north these are the ''Müns ...
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Ruedi Walter
Rudolf "Ruedi" Walter (born Hans Rudolf Häfeli, 10 December 1916 – 16 June 1990), was a Swiss comedian, actor and radio personality usually starring in Swiss German-language cinema and television and stage productions. Early life and education Born in Solothurn to Pauline née Furter and Rudolf, Hans Rudolf Häfeli's family moved from Solothurn to Basel in 1921. There he attended the primary school, the college for mathematics and natural sciences (''Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliches Gymnasium'') and the business school where he graduated at the '' Maturität'' level. Still in Basel, Walter began an apprenticeship at a company for bakery and confectionery supplies that went bankrupt, and assumably in 1937 he moved to France, where he attended lessons at the Sorbonne and language lessons in Paris. He worked as a volunteer and later as an administrator in London at the Twining-Crossfield tea company. In 1939 Walter returned to Switzerland where he initially was hired as an e ...
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Walter Andreas Müller
Walter Andreas Müller (born 3 September 1945) is a Swiss stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions. Early life and education Born in Zürich, canton of Zürich, in Switzerland, Walter Andreas Müller lives in the municipality of Russikon. His mother was a gifted painter and his father worked as a clarinetist and saxophonist. After a training as a bookseller and publisher, Walter Andreas Müller devoted 21 years of acting and attended acting school in Zürich. Theater, television and cabaret Thenafter Müller had firm commitments on various German stages, returned to Switzerland in 1972 and worked for several years at the Theater an der Winkelwiese, and also starred on the Bernhard-Theater Zürich. National popularity gained Müller with Ursula Schäppi in 1977 in Kurt Felix' "Teleboy" show, and as the ''Chifler'' couple; even a song was listed in the Swiss radio charts. Walter Andreas Müller's probably most ...
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Inigo Gallo
Inigo Gallo (2 November 1932 – 15 December 2000) was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions. Life and work Born in Zürich, Canton of Zürich in Switzerland, Inigo Gallo had as a child actor appearances on Schauspielhaus Zürich, among other things as ''Walterli'' in Schiller's ''Wilhelm Tell''. From 1948 to 1951 he was educated at the ''Bühnenstudio Zürich'', and in 1951/52 Gallo got guest engagements at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, and from 1952 to 1958 engagements at the ''Stadttheater St. Gallen''. In 1958 Gallo worked as a freelance director, actor and author, among others at the Stadttheater St. Gallen, ''Stadttheater Basel '' and ''Schauspielhaus'': in 1959 as ''Bunker Willy'' in '' Die kleine Niederdorf-Oper'' and in the musical "Eusi chliini Stadt" at the Theater am Hechtplatz in Zürich. Since then, Gallo worked together with Ruedi Walter in a variety of dia ...
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Paul Bühlmann
Paul Bühlmann (12 February 1927 – 15 July 2000) was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions. Life and work Born in Zürich, Canton of Zürich in Switzerland, Paul Bühlmann was the father of the Swiss actress Agnes Bühlmann. Bühlmann was educated as merchant, trained theatre with Adolf Manz between 1947 and 1950, received elocution by Ellen Widmann and role studies by Gustav Knuth. From 1950 to 1960 and 1962 to 1965 Bühlmann played numerous mostly small roles at Schauspielhaus Zürich, among them the conductor in the premiere of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play '' Der Besuch der alten Dame'' (''The Visit'') in 1956. In 1960 he debuted as a cabaret artist in "Vermisst wird" with César Keiser. Karl Suter discovered his talents, and he starred at Theater am Hechtplatz in musicals in 1965, 1967 and 1968. From 1968 to 1971 Bühlmann was a member of the Theater am Neumarkt ...
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Theater Am Hechtplatz - Hechtplatz 2015-11-06 16-25-59
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. It is the oldest form of drama, though live theatre has now been joined by modern recorded forms. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. Places, normally buildings, where performances regularly take place are also called "theatres" (or "theaters"), as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminolog ...
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