Stadttheater Mödling, Municipal theater in Mödling, Austria.
The Stadttheater Mödling occupies a four-storey Secessionist apartment building dated 1913, most likely planned by the Mödling architects Demmer and Schleicher. Its auditorium seats 301 spectators and is lit by electric light. The house was fitted out by the cinema pioneer and actor Carl Juhász, who had shown films in the nearby Bieglerhütte station hotel from 1905.
The Stadttheater Mödling was installed by cinema pioneer Carl Juhász in a four-storey Secessionist apartment building dated 1913 and opened on 3 October 1913, the eve of Emperor Franz Joseph I's name day. It seated about 550 and was known as the Mödlinger Bühne or Biograph Juhász. The city acquired it in 1920; after a 1994 renovation it has been run since 1998 by Theater zum Fürchten.
The house is run by Bruno Max's company Theater zum Fürchten, which has staged more than 220 of its own productions here since 1998, with over 380 performers taking part. Two Lower Austrian culture prizes and two Nestroy nominations came out of this work. In summer 2011 the free group teatro began using the venue during the theater holidays.
The theater is located in central Mödling and is easy to reach on foot from the town center. It helps to arrive early to explore the building's interior and find your seat comfortably.
The theatre's first director, Carl Juhász, had shown films in the Bieglerhütte station hotel from 1905 and led the cinema with his wife Leopoldine until his death in 1940; she ran it until 1967. Since 1998 Bruno Max's Theater zum Fürchten has staged more than 220 in-house productions here.
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