Hanover Playhouse (Schauspielhaus Hannover)

 

Hanover, Germany

Project start: 04/2002
Completion: 09/2004
Construction type: Renovation
Venue type: Drama theatre
Seating capacity: 630 seats
Our services: Schematic design, design development, construction design, tender documents and construction supervision for stage machinery
Contact: Client: The Lower Saxony State Theatre's Hanover GmbH (Niedersächsische Staatstheater Hannover GmbH)

 

  • Partly renewal of the steel structure including grid level and level of pulleys
  • 44 powered fly bars, payload: 500kg, v = 0 - 1,5 m/s
  • 4 powered proscenium fly bars, payload: 500 / 1000kg, v = 0 - 1,5 m/s
  • 10 apron stage point hoists, payload: 250kg, v = 0 - 0,5 m/s
  • 8 point hoists with movable wire rope output, payload: 350kg, v = 0 - 1,5 m/s
  • 3 lighting hoists, payload: 1500kg, v = 0 - 0,6 m/s
  • Renewal of the drives of house curtain, proscenium bridge, safety curtain
  • Modification of 2 smoke hatches
  • Renewal of the drive trains for 4 main stage platforms 12m x 3m with 5 electro-mechanically driven trap doors each
  • Renewal of the drives for 1 movable trap lift structure 5x1m
  • Complete electric and electronic layout of the centralized control system including main and secondary control consoles for all drives of the overstage and understage machinery.

Phase 1 Design

completed

Phase 2 Construction

completed

Phase 3 Handover

completed