Theater landscapes

The administrative director at the time had the foresight to take out a building savings contract and when the Landestheater, or LTT for short, finally got its own building, a converted former chair factory, the extension could be realized.

Until 1979, plays had to be performed in a movie theater.
Students and pupils are the preferred audience in the "wild" 60s and 70s, when artistic director Manfred Beilharz celebrates success with "left-wing popular theater".
During this time of student unrest, the Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch, the theologian Hans Küng and Alois Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, taught at the university.
In the film, rhetoric professor Walter Jens explains how the heated debates also spilled over into the theater.

Esther Schweins introduces the LTT and the student town of Tübingen and shows the extent to which the political climate influences theater work and vice versa.
As Tübingen was hardly destroyed during the war, many actors and directors came to the small town after the war to perform and direct.
Erwin Piscator
among others.
Arthur Miller's "Witch Hunt", Maximilian Schell, Theodor Loos, Klaus Maria Brandauer
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many others have appeared on stage in Tübingen.
Director Peter Spuhler, who moved to the Heidelberg Theatre this season, talks about his work and his successor Simone Sterr presents her program.