Theater am Hechtplatz
| Theater am Hechtplatz | |
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The theater building at Hechtplatz square respectively Limmatquai in Zürich
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| General information | |
| Status | active |
| Type | Theatre |
| Location | Limmatquai Zürich, Switzerland |
| Address | Hechtplatz 7, CH-8001 Zürich |
| Coordinates | 47°22′5.9″N 8°32′41.3″E / 47.368306°N 8.544806°ECoordinates: 47°22′5.9″N 8°32′41.3″E / 47.368306°N 8.544806°E |
| Completed | 1835 |
| Renovated | 1958/59 and 1987 |
| Owner | Stadt Zürich |
| Landlord | City of Zürich |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 1 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Leonhard Zeugherr (1835); Ernst Gisel (1958/59); Martin Spühler (1987) |
| Other information | |
| Seating capacity | 260 |
| Website | |
| Official website (in German) | |
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.
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 1971 the theater is subsidized by the city of Zürich.
Headed by Gurny, Felix Rogner, Rudolf Sauser, Nicolas Baerlocher and Dominik Flaschka, the theater became one of the main stages for cabaret in Switzerland. In guest performances of varying length, it shows mainly domestic, but also cabaret of artists from outside of Switzerland, among others by Alfred Rasser,César Keiser and Margrit Läubli, Franz Hohler, Georg Kreisler, Kaspar Fischer, Joachim Rittmeyer, and Lorenz Keiser. Chanson, folklore, pantomime and clowns, as Dmitri and Gardi Hutter and puppet theater. A second program focus form – often as equity or co-productions – musicals, and comedies by Swiss authors, among them Ursula Schaeppi,Jörg Schneider,Hans Gmür and Peter Zeindler, with popular Swiss actresses and actors, such as Ruedi Walter, Walter Roderer, Ines Torelli, Stephanie Glaser and Anne-Marie Blanc. Children's shows such as guest performances by the Zürcher Märchenbühne, literary matinees and jazz concerts, are also part of the small theater's program.
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