Theater Trier

The Theater Trier is the municipal theatre of the city of Trier and, as a three-division house with the divisions of music theatre, drama and dance (ballet), one of the most important cultural institutions of the region. It has existed in its institutional form since 1802. Since the 2025/26 season Lajos Wenzel has led the house as sole intendant. The Trier theatre tradition goes back to a decree of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. On the occasion of his visit to the then French-occupied city, he ordered on 28 August 1802: "The Capuchin monastery is designated for the establishment of a playhouse." In the building thus created on the Fahrstraße, the theatre played until the end of the Second World War. The last performance before the closure ordered by the National Socialists took place on 16 July 1944 with Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. On 23 December 1944 the theatre building on the Fahrstraße was destroyed in an Allied air raid. After the end of the war the theatre resumed operations first in the Treviris hall (until 1950) and then in the Bischof-Korum-Haus (1950–1964). On 12 January 1962 the foundation stone was laid for a new building on the Augustinerhof, designed by the architect Gerhard Graubner. On 27 September 1964 the theatre opened in the new building with Beethoven's Fidelio.