Theater in the Pariser Hof
With a colorful mix of cabaret and comedy performances, live concerts and dance evenings, the cabaret stage "Theater im Pariser Hof" offers high-quality entertainment for every generation.
Designed for over 120 seats, the traditional theater hall is large enough to create a great atmosphere and small enough for a cozy atmosphere and special closeness between artist and audience. The program is as varied as Wiesbaden itself.
With a colorful mix of cabaret and comedy performances, live concerts and dance evenings, the cabaret stage offers high-quality entertainment for every generation.
The history of the house and the theater
In 1780, the city of Wiesbaden had its first rabbi, Abraham Salomon Tendlau, who was also the proprietor of the Rebhuhn. He died in 1790 and his widow continued to run the bathhouse. In 1832, the heirs sold the building to Isaak Hiffelsheimer, who also acquired the neighboring property. Under the famous master builder Christian Zais, Wiesbaden became a modern spa town and the new owner Isaak Hiffelsheimer then had the "Pariser Hof" built on these properties.
The result was a chic, three-storey, originally classicist building. The Pariser Hof was later sold to Hofrat Friedrich von Wagner, ending the Jewish tradition of the house.
The Pariser Hof then passed through several owners, who also began to shape the image of the house differently around 1900. Over the years, rococo motifs were added above the windows on the second floor and sandstone arched windows were installed on the first floor and in the entrance area. Around 1845, the hotel business was taken over by Anna Maria Bücher, who used the newly created hall on the first floor as a place of worship. At the end of the 19th century, the "Pariser Hof" hotel could no longer keep up with the chic grand hotels in the city of Wiesbaden and was used for publishing from then on. In 1945, publishing houses such as Brockhaus and Inselverlag moved in. However, the publishing houses moved out again after less than a year, leaving behind the Pariser Hof, which disappeared from the minds of the city fathers.
After a renovation by a theater group on its own initiative in 1986, the Pariser Hoftheater opened its doors in the Pariser Hof. A few years later, the city bought the building and renovated it in 2009, creating a gem, especially in terms of its use as a theater. The restaurant on the first floor also returned to the listed building.
Since the mid-1980s, the Pariser Hoftheater in Spiegelgasse - a stage for cabaret and independent theater - has enriched Wiesbaden's cultural life. In 2004, it was awarded the cultural prize of the state capital.
At the end of August 2014, the stage was closed by the operating group due to its strained financial situation. This left the city with a wonderful cabaret theater but no operator. However, one was quickly found: the associated non-profit Theater im Pariser Hof association has been working to preserve the theater and keep it open ever since.
At the beginning of 2015, the cabaret stage, now called "Theater im Pariser Hof", opened its doors in a new light and has been presenting big names from the music and cabaret scene with a varied program ever since. The historic "Pariser Hof" bathhouse is now home to the "Theater im Pariser Hof", the "Chez Mamie" restaurant and the "Aktive Museum Spiegelgasse".