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The Theater Altenburg-Gera emerged in 1995 from the merger of the stages of the city of Gera with the Landestheater Altenburg.
Due to the increasingly tight budget situation for financing the theaters from municipal and state funds, this theater series was created in Eastern Thuringia.
Since then, the joint ensemble, orchestra and management have commuted back and forth between the cities, which are around 40 km apart.
Both theaters can look back on a long theatrical tradition.
The "Neues Komödienhaus" was inaugurated in Gera as early as 1683, at the beginning of the 20th century Hans Otto and Bernard Minetti were in the ensemble.
Hans Otto and Bernard Minetti were in the ensemble and after the war, Leander Haußmann played alongside Rolf Hoppe and Frank Castorf directed at Theater Gera.
Musical theater in particular was cultivated in the Skatstadt Altenburg, with Peter Konwitschny, for example, staging a "Freischütz" in the 1980s that is remembered as spectacular.
Esther Schweins introduces Thuringia's largest multi-genre theater, sheds light on the effects of the theater merger and unexpectedly encounters her doppelganger on the puppet theater stage.
Altenburg author Ingo Schulze has written a precise panorama of the East German post-reunification world in his novel "Simple Stories", which is set in his home town, and talks about his experiences of the Altenburg theater era.
And "merger director" Michael Schindhelm gives an insight into how turbulent the unification of the two theaters into the current four-division house was.
