# Landestheater Tübingen

Landestheater Tübingen is a theatre in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is known as 'LTT' for short , officially also 'Landestheater Württemberg-Hohenzollern Tübingen Reutlingen', is a cultural enterprise financed in Tübingen by public funds, donations and entrance fees. It puts on its mainly own productions, but also – partly foreign-language – guest performances. In addition to the so-called "evening game plan", it also has its own children's and youth theater division.
The Landestheater performs beyond with its productions for large and small stages, and with the Junge LTT also for kindergartens, classrooms etc. More than a quarter of its more than 900 performances a year are outside the theatre.

## History

The history of the Landestheater Württemberg-Hohenzollern Tübingen Reutlingen dates back to the postwar period. In 1945, the "Städtische Schauspielhaus Tübingen" with the Schiller Hall of a local museum as a venue, a multipurpose room that was also used as a cinema, was created from a free play group. In 1947, the cities of Tübingen and Reutlingen merged to form a "Zweckverband Städtetheater Tübingen Reutlingen". With the support of the former state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern. In 1950, the current state theater emerged. The country's financial participation allowed the theater to hold its own during the critical years following the currency reform, and began to schedule scheduled gaming operations and to produce performances for guest performances in the region. For a long time, however, the theater depended on the museum to use as a venue, which in the long run represented an enormous burden. Workshop, rehearsal and office space were missing, the theater infrastructure was insufficient. Because of the financial crisis, both the considerations for a new theater construction and for an expansion of the museum failed. However, since the space requirement blew up the spatial possibilities of the museum and the fire, construction and industrial police finally considered the game mode no longer responsible,
After the reconstruction of the museum, which started in 1962, failed due to the different interests of the museum owners and the state theater, as well as the lack of government subsidies from the city of Tübingen, the LTT finally began to search for a solution on its own. In 1975, the solo venue was found. A redundant chair factory 'Schäfer', which was vacant at that time, was converted into the LTT headquarters during a four-year planning and construction phase.
On 23 September 1978, the theatre started acting workshops with the German premiere of "Mensch Meier" by Franz Xaver Kroetz. On 21 September 1979, finally, the Great Hall was inaugurated and opened with Friedrich Schiller's "Die Räuber".
Five years later, in 1984, an independent children's and youth theater division was founded at the LTT, today's "Young LTT". It celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2014. Michael Miensopust is its director. It puts on its own junior productions.
Noted productions:
* 1982, Hamlet, directed by Pit Drescher
* 1982, The Man of La Mancha, directed by Stefan Viering
* 1983, Emilia Galotti (by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing), directed by Marinelli
* 1983, The Opera from the Large Hanggelte, directed by W. Kolneder
* 1983, Fazz and Zwoo, directed by W. Fink
* 1983, The Beautiful Helena, directed by Istvan Iglodi
* 1983, Jumbo Track, directed by Gunther Möllmann
* 1984, The Gull, directed by Brigitte Soubeyrand
* 1984, Measure for Measure (by Shakespeare), directed by Pit Drescher

## Intendants (managing directors)

| 1945–1946 | 1946–1947 | 1947–1950 | 1950–1964 | 1964–1967 | 1967–1970 | 1970–1975 | 1975–1978 | 1978–1984 | 1984–1991 | 1991–1995 | 1995–2001 and 2002 | 2002, 2003–2004, 2005 | 2005, 2006–2013, 2014 | 2014/15-present |
| Wolfgang Müller | Günther Stark | Paul Rose | Fritz Herterich | Christoph Groszer | Ernst Seiltgen | Manfred Beilharz | Alf Reigl | Klaus Pierwoß | Bernd Leifeld | Manfred Weber | Knut Weber | Peter Spuhler | Simone Sterr | Thorsten Weckherlin |