Schwankhalle
The Schwankhalle is a play and production facility for the independent performing arts in Bremen . Half of the building on the site of the former Remmer brewery in Buntentorsteinweg 112/116 in Bremen Neustadt was restored and half rebuilt and opened in 2003. Until 2011, the Schwankhalle was owned by the Young Theater Bremen , the steptext dance project and kulturg.uteV, and since 2011 by the Neugier eV association , whose board members act as artistic and operational directors, under changing artistic directors and the like. a. run by Carsten Werner , Hans König , Anja Wedig , Susanne von Essen , Nadine Portillo and Denis Fischer as Künstlerhaus Schwankhalle :: Space for Ideas and with in-house productions as well as with local, national and international guest performances, co-productions and festivals as well as actors and independent theaters of the Bremen scene as well as interdisciplinary projects with media or district reference.
Since the management was put out to tender again by Neugier eV , Pirkko Husemann has been running the Schwankhalle since September 2015 as a laboratory and work space for local, national and international projects and collaborations. The new concept builds on the idea and tradition of an artists' house that gives artists time, space and support for transdisciplinary and self-determined research, training and development in an inspiring environment.
history
Wilhelm Remmer's brewery was founded in 1873 on the bowl basket . In 1903/04 the brewery was relocated to Buntentorsteinweg in Neustadt. Remmer was bought by the Beck brewery (later Beck brewery ) in 1917 .
The beer kegs were transported to and from the brewery's Schwankhalle . For a long time after 1945, the site was used as a vehicle fleet for the municipal garbage disposal and had no particular urban significance. The renovation of the old buildings, supplemented with new ones , took place in 2002 according to plans by Manfred Schomers , Rainer Schürmann and Walter Stridde.
The old buildings of the Buntentorsteinweg ensemble have served culture since then, the new buildings with an inner courtyard are residential complexes for the elderly. The newly opened public path between the old and new buildings connects the Buntentorsteinweg with the dike of the Kleiner Weser .
The architecture guide bremen explained : “The architectural and urban redefinition of a brewery area is characterized by a combination of old building conversion and new construction, which at the same time defines a mixture of functions .... The architecture of the residential buildings is visually restrained. Only the high central staircase has a great architectural gesture in a neo-rationalist manner. "
The area was made available for use by “the free professional art and artist scene of all branches” from Bremen and around. In 1992 the gradual renovation began, through which the first artists found an exhibition and presentation space. After the renovation was completed, theater, dance and music events have been taking place here since autumn 2003. In the Schwankhalle building there is a radio studio, from which the Bremen open channel " Radio Weser TV " with u. a. the shipment was sent with fluctuations .
One of the independent groups and artists who had their permanent home there under the Schwankhalle label was the Bremen Young Theater (expanded to include the Alte Liebe label for in-house productions).
In 2014, the majority of the leading and productive cultural workers at the Schwankhalle decided to withdraw from operations and Neugier eV put the management of the house open to the public. At the end of 2014, Dr. Pirkko Husemann took over the management of the Schwankhalle on the recommendation of a search committee and resolutions of the supervisory board and the general assembly of Neugier eV.
Structure of the house
The Schwankhalle has two fully equipped theater halls with a seating capacity of 120 and 80 seats, a radio studio, rehearsal stages and guest apartments. Since 2012, the support association Neugier eV has received institutional funding from the Bremen Senator for Culture with 755,800 euros annually as operator and organizer. The Schwankhalle is a member of vis-a-vis Neustadt, the Clubverstäker Bremen, Stadtkultur Bremen and Klub Dialog and cooperates with Klangpol ( New Music Network ).
Performing Arts Festival
The Outnow Festival is organized biennially by the Schwankhalle and the Bremen Theater . The Performing Arts Festival presents productions by national and international up-and-coming artists from the fields of drama, music theater, dance and performance and related art genres.
Web links
- Internet presence of the Schwankhalle
- Schwankhalle on bremen-tourismus.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen: b.zb: 298
- ↑ Concept of the Schwankhalle ( memento of August 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), report on www.schwankhalle.de (last accessed: May 24, 2009).
- ↑ http://www.taz.de/!5045584/
Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 56 ″ N , 8 ° 48 ′ 23 ″ E