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Constance in the border triangle is a vacation paradise and invites you to go sailing, surfing and hiking.
However, the city not only has Lake Constance with its beautiful landscape to offer, but above all history - including theater history.
The oldest continuously performed theater in Germany is located here - with almost four hundred years of stage history.
A tradition that has its roots in the Middle Ages.
In 1604, the Jesuits founded one of the city's many monasteries and thus laid the foundations for the Constance Theater.
The first theater performances took place in the Jesuit Gymnasium of the monastery.
This building still serves as a theater for the people of Constance today.
Esther Schweins introduces the Theater Konstanz and shows the special features of the Jesuit Theater and tells the story of Prince Napoleon, later Emperor Napoleon III, who had his visits to the theater accompanied by paid cheers. Director Hans J. Ammann, who revived the tradition of summer theater on the lake in the mid-1980s together with the writer Martin Walser, has his say. Director Rainer Mennicken is strongly committed to the interests of this "young theater" and founded and organized a transnational youth theater festival under the name "Triangel". Mennicken also brings the up-and-coming director Dagmar Schlingmann to Constance, who has been in charge of the theater since 2001.
