Old magazine (Hanover)

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The old magazine in the southern part of Hanover, Kestnerstraße 18

The old magazine in Hanover is a listed former magazine and regular venue for the two stages Klecks Theater Hanover with performances especially for children and young people. In addition, the children's theater is also used by the Hannoversche Kammerspiele with productions for adults. The house, with an average of around 25,000 spectators annually, is one of the most popular free stages in Lower Saxony . The location of the historical complex is Kestnerstraße 28 in the Hanover district of Südstadt .

History and description

Musicians on stage during the New Year's reception of the Südstadt-Bult district council in January 2019

After the Kestnerstrasse was laid out in the late founding period of the German Empire in 1886 , the architect Ferdinand Ludolff , a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase , designed the plans for the "Decorationen-Magazin" built between 1894 and 1895 for the Royal Court Theater . The sets assembled for the various theater and opera performances were to be temporarily stored in the depot until they could be used again.

The decoration magazine, in whose creation the court building officer Louis Frühling was possibly also involved, was now created as a Gothic brick building with an elongated, deep structure and a cross-section resembling a basilica . An administrative building was added on the west side, the gable of which was decorated with plastered blind windows and corner turrets.

After completion, the decoration magazine did not always serve its original purpose, and later remained almost unused for many years. At times, the building, with its around 10 meter high, slender pillars in the interior, also served as a stable for military horses .

During the bombing of Hannover in the Second World War was burning while the opera house with his costume - fundus completely, but the old magazine remained at the Kestner street with its deposited there theatrical scenes of the firebombs largely spared.

Winter 2009: Entrance area of ​​the building before its renovation

On May 11, 1988, the State Theater of Hanover opened a new venue in the "Old Magazine in Kestnerstrasse" with the performance of the play ADE by Harald Weiss . The old house was then used for small, experimental and extravagant productions and was initially only poorly prepared.

A few years later, on June 3, 1993, the culture committee of the state capital Hanover decided, with the votes of the SPD and the GABL , to make the old magazine available to Klecks children's and youth theater . At that time, a children's and theater center was to be set up in cooperation with the Theater der Jugend .

In 1994 the Klecks Theater, which until then had to do without a permanent venue, was finally able to move into the historic building. Soon the Hannoversche Kammerspiele were also able to show an ambitious evening program here. However, due to the meager funding at the time, no thermal insulation for the winter could be installed and no sound insulation, so that the players and spectators had to freeze in winter and were not allowed to be loud in the late evening because of the tenants in the neighboring houses. In addition, the windows were drafty, the toilets could only be reached by crossing the courtyard, while occasional bricks even fell from the outer facade.

In 2011, the renovation of the historic building was completed. Offices, various cloakrooms and even a separate rehearsal stage were carefully integrated into the listed building without destroying the unique atmosphere of the house. The high hall in the old magazine, which is difficult to play with, with its double row of supporting pillars has since offered numerous productions its very own aesthetic.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Altes Magazin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ In contrast to this, the year 1978 is mentioned, in which the old magazine in the Kestnerstraße is named as an additional venue, from the actor to the theater director and later artistic director of the Ballhof , Alexander May , see Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Stadtgeschichte chronologically / music - Music theater ... 1978 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (Ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 54

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Neß : Churches and public buildings , In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover , Part 1, Volume 10.1, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 120f .; as well as Südstadt in the addendum to part 2, volume 10.2: List of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation, p. 7ff; here: p. 8
  2. ↑ a b without author : Diversity under one roof on the page altes-magazin.de [ undated ], last accessed on January 19, 2019
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Ulrike Gerold , Wolfram Hänel : A stable for Hanover's theater scene / Old magazine , in this: Under the tail and the corner - where the wild Guelphs live. Travel guide , Meßkirch: Gmeiner Verlag, 2015, p. 96f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Kestnerstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 140
  5. ↑ Reinhard Glaß: Ludolff, Ferdinand Friedrich Heinrich in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) [undated], last accessed on January 19, 2019
  6. ↑ Sabine Hammer : The Krasselt era. Personal memories of Kurt Söhnlein in conversation with Sabine Hammer , in Sabine Hammer (Ed.), George Alexander Albrecht et al. : The opera house in Hanover. Architecture and theater history , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1986, ISBN 978-3-87706-029-2 and ISBN 3-87706-029-3 , pp. 63–88; here: p. 86; also as a limited preview in the Google Book search
  7. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1988 , in: Hannover Chronik , pp. 301–305; here: p. 303; limited preview in Google Book search
  8. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Hannover Chronik '93 , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 48 (1994), pp. 379-402; here: p. 388; limited preview in Google Book search

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