In the parquet, in the center: This is currently the best place to find out everything to know what’s going on in the front on the peacock stage. Because this is framed by a broad Portal, and opens more to the rear than to the audience. Thus, the visible edges to make the lines a space at the side or at the top of the balcony to the limited theatre of pleasure, as everybody knows, the tried already keep track of time from there, a performance. Also, the acoustics leaves a lot to the sides, rear and above. You are sitting in one of the first series, extends the ramp in front of one, and you peeping up like a Peck on the counter; a neck spasm threatening.
In the break, then the catering is to a larger action: In the Foyer, it is terribly narrow, the Seating is scarce, a Storage place for glasses occasions; tables may only be after the complete evacuation of the theatre hall in the Foyer to be distributed, finally, the Foyer is considered to be the escape route from the room. Definitely a suboptimal Situation for the visitors and also for the people on and behind the stage, as the Technical Director of the Playhouse Zurich, Dirk Wauschkuhn, emphasized.
homeland security is
the city’s buildings will be around all 50 years of service, the peacocks is no longer a request object. Last summer, the Department of Presidential Affairs, announced the Plan for a comprehensive modernization. This also means a waiver of the protection status: The city Council decided to dismiss the peacocks-building from the inventory of monument care, in part, if the municipal Council and electorate of the modernization agree. In contrast, the homeland security appeal has been taken.
last night was discussed in the municipal Council a Motion with the SVP and AL for “maintenance of the theatre hall of the” strong – while the city and the Schauspielhaus for a replacement of the hall to plead for a courtyard building with a new auditorium and a new stage house. Thus, a large would faster the Foyer. The defining block edge-facade remain, but due to the increase of the stage house – the auditorium was going to come up to street level – the theatre of conciseness and associations in urban development terms with the Kunsthaus to the cultural focal point.
“unit of stage picture”
Just as it is to see the creators of the Playhouse. According to Dirk Wauschkuhn adjust the depth, the so-called German stage, and the cross-scale French auditorium to each other like a fist in the eye. And for the logistics of the architecture around the stage was very difficult: It warehouse lacked spaces to jiffy stage to share images. “The result is that our Repertoire is compared to other small stages: a clear disadvantage for a large house in a growing city with a high cultural claim. More than four pieces you can have at the same time in the house. At the Theater Basel for example, there is a stage, a side stage, a rear stage and a deployment zone: There are the stage pictures, such as in a carousel can be replaced quickly. In Zurich there are per show to a stage picture,” says the Technical Director.
Some of the interesting Directors would be deterred by this artistic limitation. The new project design provides for a rear and two side stages.
and More relevance for the culture of the home place?
55 square metres of warehouse space per unit must be very little; and if the analysis of, for example, the audience success of “The physicist” for a night, the next day, lost samples, or other performance: The dismantling and outsourcing were not so expensive, and there is no room to Dodge. This Situation heat in the production of printing: Dear New will be played often, as you juggle deftly between the production and the maturity of an outstanding work, thereby, extend. With the conversion they wanted to strengthen the house for a classical Repertoire, with traditional proscenium stage.
“The shipbuilding hall is great for Directors who can use the space there. But in a city like Zurich, with a large, diverse audience is also a good repertoire, venue needs,” says Wauschkuhn. The box will of-through the planned conversion of the wider and higher, and the Foyer a lot of guest. In addition, there is in Switzerland a wonderful architect. Wauschkuhn with an urban gloss solution, which gives the play house with a higher roof, a bigger visibility and the cultural complex on the home place visually more relevant.
rehabilitation is not enough
anyway. And that major changes occur in order to meet the requirements of fire regulations, and disabled accessibility to meet. Now, the “Schauspielhaus” is defined for the period of 2030 to 2080.
Lucas Bally from the media office of the civil engineering Department says: “With a mere renovation would take all the deficits in the future.” And Wauschkuhn, works since 2001 at the house and the Aura of the place is forfeited, it means that, if one wanted to, that the Theater lives not more, should be at the Office in 1926 and was not on the chair, on the Brecht sat. One must seek, rather, Brecht’s to bring pieces under the best possible conditions on the stage.
The peacock room, the rütli meadow in Zurich
The drama was yesterday the most exciting in the municipal Council does not, even though there are various opinions on the renovation of the Schauspielhaus, the integrity of the peacocks on each other, and the debate of one and a half hours lasted. Too soon the result was clear. With the exception of the SVP, the Parliament was unanimous: The city Council must plan for the renovation, but must at least provide additional information. And maybe he needs to from the projects, a large part of the theatre and to create new agreements to Deplete.
The municipal Council has referred a Motion, with which he got involved in the renovation plans were not already provided now politically what are the two responsible members of the government, Corine Mauch, and André Odermatt. That the theatre urgently needs to be renovated, and about all agreed. But the approach, which the city Council informed, in the summer, caused a commotion. With a Motion to bond the back Eduard Guggenheim (AL) and Stefan Urech (SVP) the city Council. You are required to get the old auditorium. Guggenheim called the plans of the city Council, a “cultural crime of the first order”. “The peacock stage was during the Nazi period, the only free and critical stage in the entire German-speaking area.” For him, it is not to be demolished as the rütli meadow, you should from a momentary whim. Urech and other SVP-local councils also stressed the historical significance of the hall. Urech mentioned that the SP in 1977 had for a Renovation of the Schauspielhaus and against a new building.
SP in the uncomfortable position
The Motion brought in advance of the SP in an uncomfortable Situation. A part of the group wants to get to the theatre, others are for new construction. Jean-Daniel Strub therefore suggested a text change in the Motion. The city Council now has to submit within two years a template with a design credit. This is to show how the peacocks can be rehabilitated either with substantial retention of the grade II-listed theatre hall or in a partial or whole Demolition.
Strubs compromise convinced almost all of the Guggenheim, because he feared that his request would otherwise be rejected by the Parliament. And the city Council, because he receives no “thought ban”, such as city President of the Mauch called the original version. Only the SVP is concerned that the two SP-members of the government could be happy about the “Either-or” formulation, because in order to be able to drive your favoured variant.
Mauch promised, however, that the city Council of the pros and cons of the variants will show. Or Matt added that the city Council had closely planned with the Schauspielhaus. The municipal Council will now be included in the balance of Goods. The Motion was referred, with 99 votes to 16.
Thomas Zemp
(Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 23.01.2019, 22:21 PM
