Stefan Jaracz Theatre [Łódź]
type: Item
label: Stefan Jaracz Theatre
description: Theatre building in Łódź, Poland
description: theater in Łódź @nl
EUTA building identifier: 291
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Poland
City: Łódź
GPS: Point(19.4619 51.7731)
opening date: 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
Flanders Arts Institute venue ID: 139349
Web: www.teatr-jaracza.lodz.pl
architect: David Lande
architect: Gustaw Landau-Gutenteger
architect: Jakub Wujek
architect: Edward Banasz
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Wikidata source: Q118313961
Kunstenpunt Wiki Qid: Q190959
Carthalia ID: 574
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Opened 1909 as home to the Polish municipal theatre company, after a fire had destroyed its previous home on another site. During the German occupation in World War II, renamed Theater zu Litzmannstadt (Litzmannstadt is the name the Germans had given the city during the occupation). 1945 renamed Teatr Wojska Polskiego [Theatre of the Polish Army]. Re-opened 22 Mar 1945 with Stanisław Wyspiański's Wesele. 1949 renamed Teatr im. Stefana Jaracza in honour of the Polish actor, Stefan Jaracz (1883-1945).