bremer shakespeare company

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Theater building on Leibnizplatz

The Bremen Shakespeare Company e. V. (spelling: bremer shakespeare company ) is a theater collective in the legal form of a non-profit association with its headquarters in Bremen .

History and task

The Bremen Shakespeare Company was founded in 1984 as a self-managed theater by three actresses and four actors: Chris Alexander, Gabriele Blum, Hille Darjes , Rainer Iwersen, Renato Grünig, Norbert Kentrup and Dagmar Papula .

The focus of the programmatic orientation of the Bremen Shakespeare Company is the continuous preoccupation with Shakespeare and the performance traditions of his time. The main elements are the missing fourth wall on the stage, a non- naturalistic stage aesthetic, cross-gender casts and a small ensemble with currently nine members, in which an actor often plays several roles . Usually our own translations are performed.

The Bremen Shakespeare Company understands the theater evening as a joint celebration with the audience . The actors greet the audience in the foyer before a performance , sell the programs themselves and bid farewell to the audience at the end of the performance. The regular public rehearsals before a premiere meet with great interest.

Under the title Dramatikerwerkstatt , the ensemble develops pieces themselves, e.g. B. A Story of Love and Hate in Malta (2005), Shakespeare in Trouble (2003) and A Kingdom for a Ball (2006). From time to time pieces by other authors are also played, e.g. B. Waiting for Godot (2006, Samuel Beckett ), Rosenkranz and Güldenstern (2004, Tom Stoppard ), Cabal and Love for Two (2004, based on Friedrich Schiller ), The Sorrows of Young Werther (2009, Johann Wolfgang Goethe ) and Shakespeare, Killer, Pulp & Fiction (2011, John von Düffel ).

Cooperations

Since its foundation, the Bremen Shakespeare Company has been cooperating with numerous other cultural and scientific institutions in Bremen, such as B. with the University of the Arts Bremen , the University of Bremen , the Institut français Bremen, Quartier gGmbH. She also launched the “Quantum Foam” project and is co-founder and cooperation partner of the multi-part project From the files to the stage with the University of Bremen, Department of History.

The Bremen Shakespeare Company and the Oberschule am Leibnizplatz am Leibnizplatz have been working closely together . A first joint theater production was Parzival in summer 2013. Under the name School-Theater-Campus and with the involvement of other cultural actors in the Neustadt district of Bremen, this cross-institutional cultural education project is being continued.

Venues

One of the first venues was the former Kammerspiele theater in Böttcherstraße . In 1989 the Bremen Shakespeare Company moved into the auditorium of the grammar school on Leibnizplatz (today: Oberschule am Leibnizplatz ) in Bremen Neustadt . From the end of 2011 to the beginning of 2013 this venue was refurbished, the stage modernized, the previously missing stage machinery installed and the backstage area expanded. Over two hundred events now take place annually in the Theater am Leibnizplatz.

In addition, the bsc presents its performances in around 50 guest appearances per season in the entire German-speaking area. Since 1996 the Bremen Shakespeare Company has been showing a selection of its productions as open-air performances in the Bremer Bürgerpark at Shakespeare im Park and is regularly represented at the Shakespeare Festival Neuss . The Bremen Shakespeare Company has the largest repertoire of Shakespeare plays in Germany.

The sculpture The Juggler by the sculptor Christoph Fischer has stood in front of the theater at the intersection since 1991 as a connection to the Bremen shakespeare company.

societies

The Bremen Shakespeare Company operates in the legal form of an association. The board members are Renate Heitmann (executive board member), Peter Lüchinger, Markus Seuss and Bernd Wolf.

There is also the Friends and Patrons of the Bremen Shakespeare Company eV, which was founded on April 23, 2008 in Bremen. Board members are Horst Baraczewski, Axel Schubert, Ursula Carl, Jan Freysoldt, Michael Lempe, Horst Isola and Wolfgang Schrörs .

Awards

  • 1999: German Critics' Prize for Timon from Athens at the Shakespeare Festival Globe-to-Globe, May / June 2012 at the London Globe Theater .
  • 2012: Monica Bleibtreu Prize in the (Modern) Classics category for A Midsummer Night's Dream at the 1st Private Theater Days in Hamburg
  • 2013: Monica Bleibtreu Prize in the (Modern) Classics category for Richard III at the 2nd Private Theater Days in Hamburg
  • Recognition of Distinction in the “EngageU! European Competition for Best Innovations in University Outreach and Public Engagement “from Oxford University for From the files to the stage .
  • 2017: Monica Bleibtreu Prize in the (contemporary) drama category for King Charles III at the 6th Privattheatertage in Hamburg

literature

  • Frank Schümann: Let me play the lion too. 20 years of the bremer shakespeare company . Schünemann, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-7961-1851-8 .

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