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Theater boat on the terrace bank
Barge Ida in Alberthafen Dresden, shortly before the conversion to a theater boat
Auditorium and stage
Theater barge during the 2013 flood

The Theaterkahn is a former barge and has been the venue of the Dresdner Brettl Theater since 1994 . It is located below the Augustus Bridge on the Dresden Terrassenufer , in the center of Dresden . The theater has room for 216 spectators and, as a professional repertory theater, plays around 300 performances a year.

Barge Ida

The Ida was built in 1918 by the Krischwitz shipyard (now a district of Děčín ) as a Plauer barge . The ship has a length of 64.96 meters, a width of 7.88 meters and a draft of 1.86 meters. Since 1986 the barge was used as a storage ship in the Alberthafen Dresden-Friedrichstadt and should be scrapped.

Theater boat

With the turn of the theater, founded in 1988 drew Dresdner Brettl into the house Maternistraße 17 . There the then still municipal company had space for a grand piano, a hundred spectators and a bar. When looking for an own venue, the theater founder and director Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge became aware of the barge. After purchasing the boat for one German mark , it was converted into a theater ship in Tangermünde for four million German marks . The Marion Ermer Foundation took over the guarantee for the loan. The boat was renamed Marion in honor of the founder . At least four offices ( Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration , Saxon Property Office , Dresden Public Order Office and the Office for Monument Protection) granted approval for the berth in the listed center of Dresden. The Free State of Saxony as the property owner made it available. The opening of the theater boat was celebrated on October 3rd, 1994. On February 1, 2005, the qualified mathematician, former musical director of the cabaret Die Herkuleskeule and cabaret artist Detlef Rothe was appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Theaterkahn Foundation to succeed Junge as artistic director and managing director. In August 2017 he ended his activity. The author and director Holger Böhme has been the new director and managing director .

Based on designs by Theresa Haufe and Nadja Epperlein from the graphic office die superpixel , the theater boat was painted red and white during its maintenance in 2012 in the Laubegast shipyard . Every five years the ship has to be inspected at the shipyard. It has to be towed there because it is not ready to drive on its own. All media such as water, electricity, internet and telephone are supplied from land. The wastewater is discharged directly into the municipal sewage system.

In the stalls and the tier , the theater has 216 spectators. In the 2014/2015 season, 45,122 visitors attended the events on the Theaterkahn. This meant an occupancy rate of 74 percent. The program includes around 25 productions, with three to four premieres a year. Played every day except Monday. Many productions are world premieres that have been written specifically for the Theaterkahn or developed on it.

restaurant

On board, next to the theater hall, there is the Kahnaletto restaurant (based on the Rococo painter Canaletto ) with 98 seats and a bar with 50 seats. The operators of the catering, like the theater, are tenants of the Theaterkahn Foundation. Both work as independent GmbHs independently of each other.

legal form

The purchase of the ship was carried out by Theaterkahn GmbH , which rents the boat to the theater and the restaurant in order to cover the repayment and the interest. In order to avoid differences in the board of the association, this GmbH was converted into a foundation with the ship as endowment assets. The Dresdner Brettl Theater has also been reorganized from the association into a non-profit GmbH . This gGmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Theaterkahn Foundation.

At the end of 2006, the foundation paid off the loan for the renovation, also thanks to an inheritance. The foundation's income is now used to cover the costs of maintenance and repairs on the ship. The municipal subsidies for theater operations as institutional funding for the state capital Dresden fell from over fifty to less than ten percent of the costs for theater operations and amounted to 100,000 euros in 2016.

Gauge at 5.78 meters on June 2, 2013

Dresden gauge

The Elbe level has been measured at the Augustus Bridge since 1776, and at the current location since 1945, the second bridge pillar on the Old Town side. The level has been shown on a digital display on the theater boat since 2006. The display is operated by the Waterways and Shipping Office Dresden .

gallery

  • Detlef Rothe and Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge in “Everywhere is Wonderland”, a Ringelnatz program

  • Theater barge for the flood in June 2013 ( water level 7.46 meters)

  • Theater boat 1993 with old paint

  • Theater barge in the Laubegast shipyard in 2012 after a new coat of paint

Web links

Commons : Theaterkahn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elbianer: Marion - Theaterschiff in Dresden. www.binnenschifferforum.de, December 7, 2011, accessed on May 31, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Art enjoyment in the ups and downs of the Elbe level. Dresden Latest News, August 29, 2014, accessed on May 31, 2016 (free of charge for users of the Dresden City Library).
  3. ↑ Christopher Wasmuth: How a stage went swimming. The theater boat. Dresden Marketing GmbH, accessed on April 24, 2019 .
  4. ^ A b Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge & Elmar D. Konrad: Dresdner Brettl . Successful launch of a theater boat. In: Elmar D. Konrad (Ed.): Entrepreneurship and leadership behavior in the cultural sector . WAXMANN Verlag GmbH, Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-8309-1710-6 .
  5. ↑ Rafael Barth: A serenade for the swimming pool . In: Saxon newspaper . October 1, 2014 ( online [accessed May 31, 2016]).
  6. ^ Profile Detlef Rothe , Theaterkahn Dresden, accessed March 14, 2016
  7. ↑ Theaterkahn returns to the terrace bank . In: Freie Presse, Freiberger Zeitung . April 27, 2012 ( online for a fee , free for users of the Dresden City Library [accessed on May 31, 2016]).
  8. ^ Andy Dallmann: Generation meeting in the car shack . In: Saxon newspaper . August 28, 2015.
  9. ↑ Michael Klonovsky: The best in the east - gastronomy . In: Focus . November 25, 1996 ( online fee , free of charge for users of the Dresden City Library [accessed on May 31, 2016]).
  10. ^ The Theater on the Elbe , Theaterkahn - Dresdner Brettl, accessed February 10, 2015.
  11. ^ Sabrina Lauterbach: The structural change of the Dresdner Brettl . From the institution of the state theater to an independent theater. 2013 (Scientific work at the Zittau / Görlitz University of Applied Sciences ).
  12. ^ The Dresden gauge. www.laubegast-online.de, accessed on June 8, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Simone Burig: The level display remains dark after a lightning strike . In: Saxon newspaper . November 13, 2014 ( online [accessed June 8, 2016]).

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '16.8 "  N , 13 ° 44' 16.9"  E