Run on a piece of theater history

With great crowds, the State Theater brought its place on Saturday at the exhibition center Medisted chair stock of the large house to the man and the woman. The 700 chairs stand between cable rolls, trade fair requirements, popcorn machines and what else a theater has to store. Packed in gray plastic tarpaulins, they waited for their customers in the dark of the hall. Originally there were 900 armchairs on which the audience took a seat, 200 broke during the expansion.

Employees and helpers of the State Theater drag the pieces of furniture out of the deep hall last Saturday To the cheerful prospective customers who stand at the entrance. A specially furnished online shop on the theater website and a bit of a public were enough to make the action known. The small Firnhaberstrasse, which leads to the narrow access to the hall and the mini parking lot in front of it, is also filled with cars and humans. A cyclist can be seen how he fixes one of the heavy armchairs on his luggage rack with many cords and expander.

A piece of history hangs on the theater armchairs

Daniel Nies and his friend Muharrem sit in their large white van, they have expanded the benches in the back. It is only slowly moving forward, because in the long, narrow tar path to the delivery point, only one car is always left in. « We can only let one in when someone else is out, » explains Sarah Fegraeus. The Jura student works in the “Vorderhaus” department of the theater and is otherwise responsible for admission and cloakroom. Today you and the other employees organize the easily indicated traffic chaos. A police car comes over, sends a car to the side that hinders the passage of the bus bus, drives away again.

The mood is calm. He would like to have four to six chairs, says Nies. It is best six individuals, but a triple bank also went. The owner of the character work on Schäfflerbach always needs seating for his drawing courses, also also original. « A piece of history hangs on these chairs, » he explains. Patience is required. The two have been waiting for an hour to get there.

Harald and Katrin Thomas were already successful. On foot, carry one of the chairs. They are there by bike and did not have to stand in line. Only now does someone get the car from home and then the good piece comes into the hallway with number 52. You can discover a curiosity: a pink chewing gum sticks on the back. Katrin laughs. « You can think about who it was, why and when? »

The action of the Augsburg theater turns out to be a seller

A car further explains Gisela Esche that she wants to take a chair for her sister, which she visits in Strasbourg today. « Surprise, » she says. Before the sister moved from Augsburg to Strasbourg, she was « constantly » in the theater. So a nostalgia gift. Jürgen Bähr and his son Maximilian come by, a series of four, number 1, 2, 3, 4, as you can see when unpacking for the photo. For the hallway, says Bähr. The Cologne native has lived in Augsburg for 30 years. « The furniture is for the corridor entrance that you can sit down. My wife wanted her, so I get her to her, » he says in a good mood.

The campaign turns out to be a real seller. A chair costs 40 euros, in series it can be cheaper. Children of former actors were there in the very beginning to secure a memorial for their mothers, says Maria Fürstenberger from the State Theater. Victoria Rossi, a doctoral student at the Augsburg University and Head of an open all -day school, settled at the output point on one of the red chairs. She remembers: « As a student, I always had a theater subscription. We were only allowed to sit on the chairs with the lower backs. The high backs were for the rich, I stated at the time. » That was exciting evenings, she remembers lively and happy to remember. She has pre -ordered her purchase online.

A total of 350 chairs could be sold, the theater is planning a continuation of the campaign. According to a spokeswoman, the income from the sale will flow into the establishment of the new « Black Box »which was designed as a replacement for the former experiment room in the Hoffmann cellar.