National Theatre of Strasbourg
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_national_de_Strasbourg%281%29.jpg/220px-Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_national_de_Strasbourg%281%29.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Fa%C3%A7ade_of_Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_national_de_Strasbourg.jpg/220px-Fa%C3%A7ade_of_Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_national_de_Strasbourg.jpg)
The National Theatre of Strasbourg is a palace building on Strasbourg's
The TNS was originally built to house the legislative assembly of the regional parliament of
History
In 1919, when Alsace-Lorraine returned to France, the French Government offered the building to the city of Strasbourg, which in turn offered it to the Strasbourg music conservatory, at the behest of its new director Guy Ropartz, who was refusing to occupy the Palais du Rhin opposite.
On 25 September 1944, the east wing of the building that contained the Chamber of the Assembly was destroyed by American bombing. It was reconstructed between 1950 and 1957, this time with a theatre auditorium replacing the assembly chamber. Michel Saint-Denis, the director of the National Theatre of Strasbourg at the time, entrusted this work to the architect Pierre Sonrel, who had recently worked with him in London restoring The Old Vic, which itself had been badly damaged by wartime bombing. [2]
In 1995, the façade, roofing, and the entrance on Place de la République were classified as a Monument historique.[3]
Conservatory
In 1922, the
Seating capacities
The Hartel and Neckelmann building houses two rooms: the salle Bernard-Marie Koltès (470 or 600 seats) and the salle Hubert Gignoux (a 200-seat modular room). Two other theater rooms (120 and 250 seats, respectively) used by the TNS are located in Espace Klaus Michael Grüber in rue Jacques Kablé.[5]
References
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- ^ "7 place de la République". Archi-Strasbourg. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
- ^ "L'histoire du Théâtre National de Strasbourg". TNS. 2011. Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2014-08-16.
- ^ Base Mérimée: Ancien palais de la Diète d'Alsace-Lorraine, actuellement École supérieure d'Art dramatique (...) et Théâtre national de Strasbourg, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
- ^ "Renaissance d'un Grand Orgue à Strasbourg". alsace.catholique.fr. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
- ^ "Professionnels". Théâtre national de Strasbourg. Retrieved 30 August 2017.