!!!Stadttheater, Wiener Stadttheater, Wiener, 1%%sup st/% district of Vienna; in 1870 M. Friedlaender and H. Laube planned a theatre for classical plays, modern tragedies and comedies as a middle-class counterpart of the k. k. Hofburgtheater (Imperial Palace Theatre); the Wiener Stadttheater was built according to plans by Ferdinand Fellner in 1871/72 and opened in 1872; it was gutted by fire in 1884 and was redesigned as a variety theatre (a combination of theatre, ball room, hotel, restaurant and coffeehouse) by the architects Fellner and H. Helmer and called "Etablissement Ronacher" in 1887/88. !Literature H. C. Hoffmann, Die Theaterbauten von Fellner und Helmer, 1966; G. Eberstaller, Ronacher. Ein Theater in seiner Zeit, 1993. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Stadttheater,_Wiener|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]