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Stadttheater, WienerStadttheater, Wiener, 1st district of Vienna; in 1870 M. Friedländer and H. Laube planned a theatre for classical plays, modern tragedies and comedies as a middle-class counterpart of the k. k. Hofburgtheater (Imperial Palace Theatre); the Wiener Stadttheater was built according to plans by Ferdinand Fellner in 1871/72 and opened in 1872; it was gutted by fire in 1884 and was redesigned as a variety theatre (a combination of theatre, ball room, hotel, restaurant and coffeehouse) by the architects Fellner and H. Helmer and called "Etablissement Ronacher" in 1887/88. Literature: H. C. Hoffmann, Die Theaterbauten von Fellner und Helmer, 1966; G. Eberstaller, Ronacher. Ein Theater in seiner Zeit, 1993.
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