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The Theater in der Josefstadt is a theater in Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
 in the eight district of Josefstadt
Josefstadt

Josefstadt is the eighth district of Vienna . It is near the center of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850, but borders changed later....
. It was founded in 1788 and is the oldest still performing theater in Vienna. It is often referred to colloquially as simply Die Josefstadt.

The history of the theater is tied to major figures in musical and theatrical history:






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Wien Theater Josefstadt
The Theater in der Josefstadt is a theater in Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
 in the eight district of Josefstadt
Josefstadt

Josefstadt is the eighth district of Vienna . It is near the center of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850, but borders changed later....
. It was founded in 1788 and is the oldest still performing theater in Vienna. It is often referred to colloquially as simply Die Josefstadt.

The history of the theater is tied to major figures in musical and theatrical history:
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
     and Richard Wagner
    Richard Wagner

    Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
     conducted there.
  • Johann Nestroy
    Johann Nestroy

    Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy was an opera singer, acting and, primarily, a playwright.Nestroy was born in Vienna, Austria. After a career as an opera singer in several European cities from 1822 to 1831, Nestroy returned to his native Vienna and took up writing and acting....
     and Ferdinand Raimund
    Ferdinand Raimund

    Ferdinand Raimund was an Austrian actor and dramatist....
     were connected to the theater as actors and poets.
  • Johann Strauss I
    Johann Strauss I

    Johann Strauss I , born in Vienna, was an Austrian Romantic music composer famous for his waltzes, and for popularizing them alongside Josef Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty....
     performed in the Sträußelsälen.
  • In 1814, Ferdinand Raimund
    Ferdinand Raimund

    Ferdinand Raimund was an Austrian actor and dramatist....
     had his Vienna debut as Franz Moor in Die Räuber
    Die Räuber

    The Robbers was the first drama by German playwright Friedrich Schiller. The play was published in 1781 in literature and premiered on January 13, 1782 in Mannheim, Germany....
     by Friedrich Schiller
    Friedrich Schiller

    Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller [johan/jo?han kr?st?f fri?t??? f?n ??l??/??l?] was a Germany poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright....
    .
  • In 1822, after the theater was remodeled and rebuilt, it was reopened with the overture Die Weihe des Hauses
    Consecration of the House Overture

    Consecration of the House Overture, op.124, was the first creation of Ludwig van Beethoven after studying the works of JS Bach and Handel. It was first performed in 1822 for the reopening of Vienna?s Josefstadter Theatre....
     composed and directed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    .
  • In 1829 Johann Nestroy
    Johann Nestroy

    Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy was an opera singer, acting and, primarily, a playwright.Nestroy was born in Vienna, Austria. After a career as an opera singer in several European cities from 1822 to 1831, Nestroy returned to his native Vienna and took up writing and acting....
     debuted as an actor with the 'Die Verbannung aus dem Zauberreich oder Dreißig Jahre aus dem Leben eines Lumpen.
  • From 1833 to 1840 Conradin Kreutzer
    Conradin Kreutzer

    Conradin Kreutzer or Kreuzer was a Germany composer and conductor. His works include the opera for which he is remembered, Das Nachtlager in Granada, and Der Verschwender, both produced in 1834....
     was the theater conductor and on 13 January 1834, his romantic opera     Das Nachtlager in Granada
    Das Nachtlager in Granada

    Das Nachtlager in Granada is a romantic opera in two acts by Conradin Kreutzer. The libretto is written by Karl Johann Braun von Braunthal based on Johann Friedrich Kind?s drama Das Nachtlager von Granada....
     was first performed in the theater.
  • On 20 February 1834, Ferdinand Raimund
    Ferdinand Raimund

    Ferdinand Raimund was an Austrian actor and dramatist....
    's     Der Verschwender was first performed with the poet in the roll of Valentin (with stage music by Kreutzer).
  • Between around 1840 and 1860, famous dancers Fanny Elssler
    Fanny Elssler

    Fanny Elssler , born Franziska Elssler, was an Austrian ballerina....
     and the Spanish Pepita de Oliva performed in the theater.
  • The first German-language performance of Ferenc Molnár
    Ferenc Molnár

    Ferenc Moln?r was a Hungary dramatist and novelist. His Americanized name was Franz Molnar. He emigrated to the United States to escape the Nazi Germany persecution of Hungarian Jews during World War II....
    's Liliom
    Liliom

    Liliom is a 1909 play by Ferenc Moln?r. It was very famous in its own right during the early to mid-twentieth century, but is best known today as the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel ....
     with Josef Jarno in the title role on 28 February 1913 played a key role in the piece's long-lasting appeal.


Directors (with their years of service)

  • 1788 - 1812 Karl Felix Mayer
  • 1812 - 1822 ?
  • 1822 - 1824 Karl Friedrich Hensler
  • 1824 - 1828 J. von Scheidlin
  • 1828 - 1831 Carl Carl
  • 1831 - 1837 Johann August Stöger
  • 1837 - 1848 Franz Pokorny
  • 1848 - 1865 ?
  • 1865 - 1866 Johann Fürst
  • 1866 - 1871 ?
  • 1871 - 1877 Johann Fürst
  • 1877 - 1899 ?
  • 1899 - 1923 Josef Jarno
  • 1924 - 1926 Max Reinhardt
    Max Reinhardt (theatre director)

    Max Reinhardt was an Austrian theatre and film Theatre director and actor....
  • 1926 - 1933 Max Reinhardt and Emil Geyer
  • 1933 - 1935 Max Reinhardt and Otto Preminger
    Otto Preminger

    Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austrian-born Jewish film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career....
  • 1935 - 1938 Max Reinhardt and Ernst Lothar
    Ernst Lothar

    Ernst Lothar was a Moravian-Austrian playwright, Theatre direction and theatrical producer.He was born Ernst Lothar M?ller, and as M?ller is common German surname, he dropped it....
  • 1938Robert Valberg
  • 1938 - 1945 Heinz Hilpert
  • 1945 - 1953 Rudolf Steinboeck
  • 1953 - 1958 Franz Stoß and Ernst Haeussermann
  • 1958 - 1977 Franz Stoß
  • 1977 - 1984 Ernst Haeussermann
  • 1984 - 1988 Heinrich Kraus (in September 1986 Boy Gobert was to become director, but died only a few months before)
  • 1988 - 1997 Otto Schenk
    Otto Schenk

    Otto Schenk is an actor, theater director, and production designer. He is most famous in the United States for his lavish, realist, traditionalist productions at the Metropolitan Opera....
     and Robert Jungbluth
  • 1997 - 1999 Helmuth Lohner
    Helmuth Lohner

    Helmuth Lohner is an Austrian actor, theatre director, and from 2004 to 2006 director of the Theater in der Josefstadt.Lohner initially trained as a commercial artist, while also taking private acting lessons....
     and Robert Jungbluth
  • 1999 - 2003 Alexander Götz and Robert Jungbluth
  • 2003 - 2004 Hans Gratzer
  • 2004 - 2006 Helmuth Lohner
    Helmuth Lohner

    Helmuth Lohner is an Austrian actor, theatre director, and from 2004 to 2006 director of the Theater in der Josefstadt.Lohner initially trained as a commercial artist, while also taking private acting lessons....
  • 2006 - Herbert Föttinger

Famous ensemble members

  • Albert Bassermann
    Albert Bassermann

    Albert Bassermann was a Germany stage and screen actor.Bassermann began his acting career in 1887 in Mannheim. He then spent four years at the Hoftheater in Meiningen....
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer
    Klaus Maria Brandauer

    Klaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrians actor, film director, and pedagogue....
  • Attila Hörbiger
    Attila Hörbiger

    Attila H?rbiger was a famous Austrian stage and movie actor.He played in several German and Austrian movies alongside with his wife Paula Wessely whom he had married in 1935....
  • Curd Jürgens
    Curd Jürgens

    Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz J?rgens was a Germany-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens....
  • Fritz Kortner
    Fritz Kortner

    Fritz Kortner was an Austrian-born stage and film actor and theatre director.Kortner was born in Vienna as "Fritz Nathan Kohn." He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art....
  • Werner Krauß
  • Wolfgang Liebeneiner
    Wolfgang Liebeneiner

    Wolfgang Liebeneiner was a Germany actor and film director and theater director.In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the director of the Munich Kammerspiele, in acting and directing....
  • Helmuth Lohner
    Helmuth Lohner

    Helmuth Lohner is an Austrian actor, theatre director, and from 2004 to 2006 director of the Theater in der Josefstadt.Lohner initially trained as a commercial artist, while also taking private acting lessons....
  • Karl Merkatz
    Karl Merkatz

    Karl Merkatz is a well-known Austria actor. He participated in numerous Austrian film productions and plays.Merkatz is the son of a firefighter....
  • Fritz Muliar
    Fritz Muliar

    Fritz Muliar, born as Friedrich Ludwig Stand , is an Austrian actor who, due to his huge popularity, is often referred to by his countrymen as Volksschauspieler....
  • Johann Nestroy
    Johann Nestroy

    Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy was an opera singer, acting and, primarily, a playwright.Nestroy was born in Vienna, Austria. After a career as an opera singer in several European cities from 1822 to 1831, Nestroy returned to his native Vienna and took up writing and acting....
  • Susi Nicoletti
    Susi Nicoletti

    Susi Nicoletti was a Bavarian-born actress best remembered today for over 100 supporting roles mostly in comedy films.She was born as Susanne Emilie Luise Adele Habersack in Munich, but spent most of her childhood with her parents in Amsterdam....
  • Ferdinand Raimund
    Ferdinand Raimund

    Ferdinand Raimund was an Austrian actor and dramatist....
  • Otto Schenk
    Otto Schenk

    Otto Schenk is an actor, theater director, and production designer. He is most famous in the United States for his lavish, realist, traditionalist productions at the Metropolitan Opera....
  • Hans Thimig
    Hans Thimig

    Hans Emil Thimig, pseudonym: Hans Werner was an Austrian actor, film director and stage director....
  • Paula Wessely
    Paula Wessely

    Paula Wessely was an Austrian actor.Die Wessely, as she was affectionately called by her admirers and fans, was Austria's foremost popular postwar actress....
  • Bernhard Wicki
    Bernhard Wicki

    Bernhard Wicki was an Austrians actor and film director....


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