Day Trip: Meta Theater Munich
Bauhaus-style theatre
Veronica from Munich
Built in Bauhaus style, the building of the Meta Theater is a performer’s paradise. In a style typical of the movement the building emphasizes geometric forms; the quadrangle motif repeated in the wooden floored adaptable performance/rehearsal space and then in the seven half-levels that spiral up above – living quarters for its founder and architect, Axel Tangerding and for artist residencies. Looking out of the ceiling-to-floor glass windows, one is met with only countryside: fields, trees, and more trees.
The performances and training here offer the opportunity for artists to take inspiration from and use the surrounding nature in their work. The renowned theatre director Jerzy Grotowski once took his students out of the theatre and into the nearby trees, using them as their working space.
Founded as an experiment in 1978, the theatre has its roots in the inspiration Tangerding found in Ellen Stuart, who had set up her La Mama Experimental Theatre Club in New York and enabled young, unknown directors and actors to try out their ideas for a new theatre. And so in a similar vein, the Meta Theater serves as a welcoming platform for performers and creative artists without the pressures, financial and just the faster pace, that a city like Munich presents.
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