The History of the Touring Theatre
It was a great desire of the renowned director Oscar Fritz Schuh to offer all Salzburg residents theatre of the highest quality free of charge in the summer. Fritz Schuh chose travelling theatre from the tradition of commedia dell'arte as a way to bring theatre to its audience for this project. The Salzburger Kulturvereinigung has realised this dream and has been organising the Salzburg Street Theatre every year for 50 years during the Salzburg Festival season.
3 directors - 3 theatre wagons - 50 productions
1,500 performances in the city and province of Salzburg
4 stage designers - 29 authors - 42 plays - 332 actors
700,000 spectators
1970 - 1984: Oscar Fritz Schuh, artistic director & stage manager
1985 - 2015: Klaus Gmeiner, Artistic Director & Director
2016 - today: Georg Clementi, Artistic Director, Director & Actor
