Theater landscapes

Basel's municipal theater was founded in 1834 with a building with 1300 seats, which was astonishing for a city of 26,000 inhabitants at the time.
In 1875, a new building in baroque theater style followed, which was rebuilt after a fire in 1909.
In 1968, the private theater "Komödie" was assigned to the Basler Stadttheater as a playhouse: This marked the birth of the "Basler Theater".
This was followed in 1975 by the opening of today's Stadttheater on Theaterplatz.
Thanks to a generous donation from the "Ladies First" foundation, construction of the new theater on Steinentorstrasse began at the end of 1999.

The film features the directors Michael Schindhelm and Georges Delnon, who talk about the special features of the Swiss theater system.
At the end of the 1960s, director Werner Düggelin attracted a great deal of attention with his productions.
Matthias Habich, then a member of the Theater Basel ensemble, talks about the provocations and the collaboration with the writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
The "Heimatabende" by the Swiss Christoph Marthaler also helped to raise the profile of Theater Basel.
And at the end of the nineties, the stage in the so-called pop theater became the focus of critics and audiences.
Director Stefan Bachmann talks about these times, when Theater Basel had a reputation as a "blood and underpants theater".