Dramatic decline in performances
The work statistics of the German Stage Association for the 2019/2020 season compile the performance and audience figures for the first season affected by the coronavirus pandemic. After the first lockdown in March 2020, professional theater production in Germany, Austria and Switzerland largely came to a standstill for the rest of the season.
A total of 410 theaters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland submitted their data, 353 of them from Germany. As most of the festivals were canceled, significantly fewer institutions were able to submit their programs; in the previous year, 386 German theatres reported their data. The number of works performed in Germany fell by around 13 percent (from 4749 to 4166) and the number of productions by around 14 percent (from 7152 to 6220). The decline in the number of performances in Germany is more dramatic: the reduction from 82,052 to 56,122 performances represents a fall of around 33 percent compared to the previous season.
There has been little change in the order of the most frequently performed works: "Hansel and Gretel" (27 productions) has the highest number of productions in Germany, ahead of Goethe's "Faust" (22 productions) and Mozart's "Don Giovanni" and "The Magic Flute" (20 productions each), followed by "La Bohème", "Nathan the Wise" and "Hamlet" (18 productions each) and the novel adaptation "Tschick" (16 productions).
Original article:
https://www.buehnenverein.de/de/presse/pressemeldungen.html?det=615
