Altleiningen Castle Games

As Burgspiele Altleiningen a firmiert private theater in Palatine municipality Altleiningen ( Rheinland-Pfalz ). The venue is Altleiningen Castle . The theater is organized as a registered association and a member of the Association of German Open-Air Theaters (VDF) and the Association of German Amateur Theaters (BDAT).

Geographical location

Altleiningen is located in the northern Palatinate Forest south of Autobahn 6 ( Mannheim - Kaiserslautern ) and just under 5 km from junction 18 Wattenheim . At the beginning of the 12th century, the Counts of the Leininger family built their ancestral castle above the valley of the Eckbach on a mountain spur at a height of about 280  m , which can be reached via Kreisstraße  33, in the town of Burgstraße . The settlement below the Eckbach, already mentioned in 780, developed into the village of the same name.

building

The theater's venue is the "Hall of Honor" to the left of the entrance to the medieval castle. It is a fully roofed room that is separated from the castle courtyard by brick arcades and can be reached from there at ground level - even with a wheelchair. Daylight falls through the windows on the side facing the slope on the left and the glass arcade portals on the right. The stage in the front area has a lowered prompting box . The auditorium has underfloor heating that is laid under marble slabs. It offers space for around 250 visitors and rises continuously from the stage to the rear. In the last quarter there is also a gallery that holds four rows of chairs and is reached via a staircase.

In addition to the castle games, two other institutions use Altleiningen Castle. A youth hostel with a castle tavern is housed in the main wing, which was not faithfully restored in the 1960s and given a new saddle roof at the end of the 1990s ; the former moat serves the local community as an outdoor swimming pool . There is a large parking lot on a saddle in front of the castle grounds.

history

The castle games Altleiningen were 1980 1200th anniversary of the congregation Altleiningen by the local teacher Willy computer launched, the trained actor was. Originally only a single performance of his comedy "The woman's sin is the man's fault" was to take place; But the response from the audience and the positive reviews from the experts determined the actors to continue and to found an amateur theater. After Willyrechner's death in 1983, his then 20-year-old daughter Susanne took over the management, which she still holds today. In May 2008 she received the badge of honor from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate for her longstanding voluntary work .

From the beginning, the theater has been financed from its own resources and donations; public funds are not used. In the meantime, spectators have come from all over the Palatinate region, the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region and Rheinhessen , and the performances are all sold out. In 1999, a one-year break was taken because the theater was structurally brought into its current form.

Members

The approximately 100 members of the Burgspiele Altleiningen are between the ages of 10 and 80 and are all volunteers. Almost all are amateurs with appropriate training in their field and cover the necessary lines by the actor on stage , lighting and sound technicians up to the mask and costume designers from. They come from Altleiningen and the surrounding area. Four people from the circle of members take turns in the direction .

repertoire

The theater's season is in summer and begins in mid-June; The game is played ten to twelve times on the weekends. The program mainly features classics and “high-quality summer comedies”, and in 1997 a detour into the crime genre was made. So far the following pieces have been performed:

year title author 1980 The woman's sin is the man's fault Willy calculator 1981 The waters of Venice Pedro Parellio 1982 The elixir of love Pedro Parellio 1983 The liar Carlo Goldoni 1984 Love is inventive Pedro Parellio 1985 Foolishness to Leiningen Pedro Parellio 1986 Liselotte of the Palatinate Willy calculator (after Presber / Stein) 1987 Liselotte of the Palatinate Willy calculator (after Presber / Stein) 1988 The perfectly healthy patient Peter Pflug (after Molière ) 1989 Ingeborg Curt Goetz 1990 The woman's sin is the man's fault Willy calculator 1991 The servant of two masters Carlo Goldoni 1992 The women's school Molière 1993 The great day or the wedding of Figaro Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais 1994 Bunbury Oscar Wilde 1995 The broken jug Heinrich von Kleist 1996 Lady leprechaun Calderon de la Barca 1997 Wait till it's dark Frederick Knott 1998 The clever fool Lope de Vega 1999 Break during the renovation of the hall of honor

year title author 2000 A midsummer night's dream William Shakespeare 2001 A midsummer night's dream William Shakespeare 2002 Heroes George Bernard Shaw 2003 Witch hunt Arthur Miller 2004 Magnolias in autumn ("Too soon for Daisies") William Dinner / William Morum 2005 A lot of noise about nothing William Shakespeare 2006 Elling Axel Hellstenius 2007 The beggar opera After John Gay 2008 How life steals so After Jack Popplewell : Good Thieves 2009 The Lionheart brothers Astrid Lindgren 2010 The eight women Robert Thomas 2011 What you want William Shakespeare 2012 Do you know the Milky Way? Karl Wittlinger 2013 Tartuffe Molière 2014 The end of the world Jura Soyfer 2015 Katharina knee Carl Zuckmayer 2017 Momo Michael Ende 2018 Free room (comedy) Markus Köbeli 2019 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare 2020 Corona game break

Web links

• Internet presence of the Altleiningen Castle Games

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
2. ↑ High honor for two women . In: Grünstadter Wochenblatt . June 5, 2008.
3. ↑ Spanish: La dama boba

Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 41.8 "  N , 8 ° 4 ′ 57.1"  E