In the fight against Corona, all (cultural) events are prohibited until January 31.
The theaters in Hesse have already decided not to play until Easter.
For Andreas Beck, director of the Bavarian State Theater, it was a wrong signal.
It's about "a little more planning security".
Therefore, the Hessian State Theaters in Darmstadt, Kassel and Wiesbaden, the Hessian State Theater Marburg and the City Theater Gießen have decided not to resume theater until April.
So far (cultural) events are prohibited in Germany until January 31st.
Hesse's theaters want to restart at Easter
The five houses are the first stages in Germany to voluntarily leave the curtain down until Holy Week.
"We will announce in a timely manner what the schedule will look like," says Wiesbaden.
"Unfortunately, the current pandemic is not bringing the hoped-for relaxation, but rather a renewed aggravation according to current knowledge," said Hesse's Art Minister Angela Dorn.
In addition to preparing for the restart at Easter, the theaters want to have flexible formats and offers for schools in order to be able to react at short notice if the infection figures allow this, explains the Green politician.
“Culture in particular lives from direct contact between people.
That is their great quality, "Dorn is quoted as saying.
"But that also makes them so vulnerable."
Resi boss: "You can't duck back"
Andreas Beck, head of the Bavarian State Theater, refers to the different federal approaches in the fight against Corona.
You have to “be patient now”, but: “We have a social task and we have very thorough hygiene concepts that have been confirmed in pilot projects.
I think that simply closing the houses to save costs is fatal and wrong, because at a time in which more and more are demanded from us, one could make concessions again precisely where it is safe: in the theater, in the museum ... “In addition, he does not believe“ that you can duck away or even close as a precaution until Saint Never's Day or Holy Week ”.
At the request of the “Münchner Merkur”, the director also explains: “A medicine that does not help will be discontinued.” For cultural policy it follows: “The closure of the theaters has not brought any blatant improvements in the incidence values - perhaps the opening could now improve the mood help improve? "