Staatstheater Braunschweig

State Theatre of Brunswick
Construction
Staatstheater Braunschweig
Opernhaus am Hagenmarkt
"Great House" of Staatstheater with Cimiotti Fountain

Address	Braunschweig Germany
Owner	State of Lower Saxony
Designation	Listed Kulturdenkmal
Capacity	Großes Haus: 954 Kleines Haus: 297
Opened	1690; 334 years ago (1690) (Opernhaus am Hagenmarkt) 1861; 163 years ago (1861) (Staatstheater Braunschweig)
Rebuilt	1859; 165 years ago (1859), Carl Wolf / Heinrich Ahlburg 1945; 79 years ago (1945)
Architect	Carl Wolf / Heinrich Ahlburg
Website
staatstheater-braunschweig.de

The Staatstheater Braunschweig is a theatre company and opera house in Braunschweig, Germany, presenting and producing music theatre (opera, operetta, musical), Tanztheater, theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences and concerts.

The Staatstheater Braunschweig is owned by the State of Lower Saxony.

History

The earliest incarnation of the Staatstheater Braunschweig was the Opernhaus am Hagenmarkt in Braunschweig, founded in 1690 by Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Theatre works such as Emilia Galotti by Lessing and Goethe's Faust had their first openings in Braunschweig.^[1]

Gallery

Aerial view
Foyer of "Great House"
Auditorium of "Great House"
"Little House"
Opernhaus am Hagenmarkt
State Theatre in 1860

Intendants

1925–29: Ludwig Neubeck
1929–33: Thur Himmighoffen
1933–34: Oskar Walleck
1934–45: Alexander Schum
1945–46: Jost Dahmen
1946–47: Heinrich Voigt
1947–51: Walter Bruno Iltz
1951–61: Hermann Kühn
1961–63: Erich Kriebig
1964–67: Helmuth Matiasek
1967–68: Hermann Kühn
1968–72: Hans Peter Doll
1972–79: Chritoph Groszer
1979–91: Mario Krüger
1991–93: Hans Peter Doll
1993–94: Jürgen Flügge
1995–97: Executive directors: Brigitte Fassbaender, Philippe Auguin, Tatjana Rese
1997–2010: Wolfgang Gropper
2010–2017: Joachim Klement
2017–present: Dagmar Schlingmann