Theater am Turm
Venue 1963 to 1995: the former Volksbildungsheim | |
Interactive map of Theater am Turm | |
| Address | Frankfurt, Hesse Germany |
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| Coordinates | 50°7′15″N 8°39′7″E / 50.12083°N 8.65194°E |
| Type | Theatre |
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| Closed | 2004 |
Theater am Turm (theatre at the tower), styled TAT, was a theatre in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It was founded in 1956. The tower in the title first meant the Eschenheimer Turm near an early venue, and could be applied to the Bockenheimer Warte after the theatre moved to the Bockenheimer Depot.
The theatre was widely recognised in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was close to the student movement and produced a series called experimenta. The 1966 world premiere of Peter Handke's Publikumsbeschimpfung (Offending the Audience), directed by Claus Peymann, made theatre history. In the 1980s, after a period of restoration of the building, the theatre became a venue for experimental performances. From 1995 the TAT was run by the Frankfurt municipal stages and the venue moved, but it was closed in 2004 due to lack of funding.