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TheNational Theatre of Strasbourg (French:Théâtre national de Strasbourg,pronounced[teɑtʁnɑsjɔnaldəstʁasbuʁ];TNS) is a palace building on Strasbourg'sPlace de la République, now occupied by a theatre company of the same name, the National Theatre of Strasbourg.
The TNS was originally built to house the legislative assembly of the regional parliament ofAlsace-Lorraine, after the area came under German control with theTreaty of Frankfurt (1871).It was built between 1888 and 1889 inneo-Renaissance style by the architect partnersAugust Hartel andSkjold Neckelmann.[1]
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 theStrasbourg music conservatory, at the behest of its new directorGuy Ropartz, who was refusing to occupy thePalais 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 restoringThe 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 amonument historique.[3]
In 1922, theConservatory of Strasbourg (founded in 1855, the same year as theOrchestre philharmonique) was moved into the upper part of the building and several teaching rooms were built in as well as a concert hall. In 1995, the building wasn't deemed suitable enough for teaching music any more and the conservatory had to move out; it was subsequently relocated in theCité de la musique et de la danse, a state-of-the-art building inaugurated in 2006. The concert hall has remained unused since. In 2016, the monumentalpipe organ, a 1963 work by organ builder Curt Schwenkedel, was restored and moved intoSaint Stephen’s Church, where it started a new life as achurch organ instead of aconcert organ.[4]
The Hartel and Neckelmann building houses two rooms: thesalleBernard-Marie Koltès (470 or 600 seats) and thesalleHubert Gignoux (a 200-seat modular room). Two other theater rooms (120 and 250 seats, respectively) used by the TNS are located inEspaceKlaus Michael Grüber in rue Jacques Kablé.[5]
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