English Translation

In 1905, the city council decided to build a large, modern theatre. crhiclt that of the Viennese architect Alexander Graf, according to whose design the Kaiscr jubilee city theatre — the current opera house of the city of Vienna — and the Stadttheater in Znaim had already been built, the full agreement of the municipality, on 7 July 1905 the management of the building was officially entrusted to him, but only in July 1906 could the execution begin On 28 September 1907, the newly built Stadttheater under the direction of Wilhelm Popp. who was until then director, dramaturge and actor at the Raimund Theatre in Vienna, opened its doors for the first time and offered a brilliant performance with Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell" of the population of Ostrava. Thirteen years, Director Popp directed our stage with great success. Under his direction, our current director Kurt Labatt was also active as a director and actor in Ostrava in 1913 and 1917. The outbreak of World War II forced a passing lock-bung, but hereits in 1916 the town council took over the theater at the same opening of the Stadttheater on September 28, 1907 Archive Museum of contemporary commitment Wilhelm Popps as artistic director. After World War II the Czech state took possession of the building created by the Germans. The displaced German ensemble found a new, modest place of action in the "German House". For twenty years, the German word was banished from the stage of the Stadttheater until the act of our leader created the injured justice and put the theatre back into German hands. During these twenty years the care for German performances lay in the hands of the "Deutsche Theaterverein", which partly in cigener administration, partly under changing direction, ensured that German art and culture did not perish in the endangered border area. 19as the "Deutsche Theaterverein" appointed Kurt Labatt as the artistic director of the ensemble. The great time of the reorganization in the eastern region brought the German theatre business endless difficulties, which were successfully overcome by the new director. l94l, when the house