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The English Theater is planning a new season despite the eviction lawsuit
Despite the ongoing legal battle over the venue, the English Theater is planning Frankfurt At least five new productions. The theater — which, according to its own 300-seat capacity, is the largest English-speaking theater on the European mainland — is rented in a high-rise building in the Financial District and faces an eviction suit.
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“It’s about being prepared to keep the place in the heart of Frankfurt”
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The theater relies on an “urban development contract” that was a condition of the development plan in 1999, Frankfurt’s then head of planning, Martin Wentz, explained Tuesday at the programme’s press conference. It states that the landlord of the basement property must “maintain a continuous public theater operation.”
The owner, Commerzbank, sold the building to international investor Capitalland and, according to his own statements, had to hand it over empty. On June 7, the bank filed for eviction with the district court. Frankfurt culture head Ina Hartwig (SPD) assumes – like the legal advisers of the English theatre – that the theater is “perpetually entitled” to continue using the rooms as a tenant and that this right should have been transferred to the next owner upon sale.
The next season opens in September with David Byrne’s play (“Vanishing Room”), which – in collaboration with theaters in London and New York – is being written specifically for the English stage.
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