!!!Ronacher, Theater

Ronacher ("Etablissement Ronacher"), theatre in the first 
district of Vienna, built in 1871/72 by F. Fellner the Elder; managed 
by H.  Laube as  Stadttheater, Wiener. Destroyed by fire in 1884; in 
1887/88 F.  Fellner jr. and H.  Helmer were charged by Anton Ronacher 
with the reconstruction of the Ronacher as a "concert and 
ballhouse"; reopened in 1888 as "Etablissement 
Ronacher"; from 1891 regular theatre performances (revues, 
variety shows); between 1945 and 1955 the "Etablissement 
Ronacher" served as a stage for the actors of the  Burgtheater, 
which had been destroyed by fire at the end of the war; afterwards 
again put on variety shows; between 1960 and 1976 productions of the 
ORF and studio productions; integrated into the  Vereinigte Buehnen 
Wien Ges. m. b. H. in 1987; reopened in 1988 with the 
performance of the musical "Cats"; completely renovated 
between 1991 and 1993.

!Literature
H. Ihlau, Das Ronacher als Varietetheater, doctoral 
thesis, Wien 1978; L. E. Seelig, Ronacher. Geschichte eines 
Hauses, 1986; G. Eberstaller, Ronacher. Ein Theater seiner Zeit, 1993.


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