Landestheater Tübingen is a theatre in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is known as 'LTT' for short, officially also 'Landestheater Württemberg-Hohenzollern Tübingen Reutlingen', is a cultural enterprise financed in Tübingen by public funds, donations and entrance fees.
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Landestheater Tübingen is a theatre in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is known as 'LTT' for short, officially also 'Landestheater Württemberg-Hohenzollern Tübingen Reutlingen', is a cultural enterprise financed in Tübingen by public funds, donations and entrance fees. It puts on its mainly own productions, but also - partly foreign-language - guest performances. In addition to the so-called "evening game plan", it also has its own children's and youth theater division. The Landestheater performs beyond with its productions for large and small stages, and with the Junge LTT also for kindergartens, classrooms etc. More than a quarter of its more than 900 performances a year are outside the theatre. The history of the Landestheater Württemberg-Hohenzollern Tübingen Reutlingen dates back to the postwar period. In 1945, the "Städtische Schauspielhaus Tübingen" with the Schiller Hall of a local museum as a venue, a multipurpose room that was also used as a cinema, was created from a free play group. In 1947, the cities of Tübingen and Reutlingen merged to form a "Zweckverband Städtetheater Tübingen Reutlingen". With the support of the former state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern. In 1950, the current state theater emerged. The country's financial participation allowed the theater to hold its own during the critical years following the currency reform, and began to schedule scheduled gaming operations and to produce performances for guest performances in the region. For a long time, however, the theater depended on the museum to use as a venue, which in the long run represented an enormous burden. Workshop, rehearsal and office space were missing, the theater infrastructure was insufficient. Because of the financial crisis, both the considerations for a new theater construction and for an expansion of the museum failed. However, since the space requirement blew up the spatial possibilities of the museum and the fire, construction and industrial police finally considered the ga