The Theater Hagen was inaugurated as the Municipal Playhouse on 5 October 1911 and is located in the historic building in Hagen's city centre. The programmatic focus lies in the area of music theatre. For a theatre and concert hall building initially intended, an architectural competition was announced in April 1909, but had to be postponed shortly afterwards due to a change of building site and building programme (into a pure theatre building). The competition was completed in November 1909. After controversial discussion, the design awarded second prize, by the architect Ernst Vetterlein then working in Darmstadt, was chosen, and on 27 May 1910 the supervisory board of the Hagen Theatre Company finally decided on the new theatre building on Elberfelder Straße. Under Vetterlein's direction the building arose for around 650,000 marks. The interior design was by Franz Vlasdeck. The building was ceremonially opened on 5 October 1911 with a performance of Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein. The four female figures above the portal, created by the Hagen sculptor Milly Steger, gave rise to protests because of their nudity.
The Theater Hagen, opened in 1911 in Art Nouveau style, was the centre of the Hagen Impulse in the early twentieth century — a reform movement for architecture and applied arts initiated by Karl Ernst Osthaus.
At a glance
- Type
- Multi-genre theatre
- Location
- Hagen, Germany
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