Commedia Futura

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View across a courtyard of the EISFABRIK to the artist studios and a building of the Commedia Futura independent theater
Side view of one of the buildings used by Commedia Futura

Commedia Futura is a free theater based in the art and culture center Eisfabrik in the southern part of Hanover . Since it was founded in 1982, over 50 experimental, multimedia in-house productions have been created. They use elements of spoken theater as well as dance, music and video feeds .

history

At the beginning, Wolfgang A. Piontek, at that time still an art student at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig , gathered fellow students and artist friends around him in order to bring his play “The Relationship Man” to the stage. Right from the start, the aim was to create a theater that spanned all disciplines and genres. In 1987 the theater moved into a former clear ice factory in the southern part of Hanover and has since formed one of the artistic pillars of the EISFABRIK art and culture center. Andy Warhol stands out from more than 50 in-house productions . The Spirit of the 20th Century (1994), Lost in Twin peaks (1998), Ali - The Greatest (2000), Heaven and Hell (2008) and Traumatorium (2011).

The most important people at Commedia Futura today are Wolfgang A. Piontek (as director and artistic director) and his brother, the dramaturge Peter Piontek. Depending on the project, the ensemble is recruited from a network of international actors, dancers, video artists, set designers and costume designers . The theater has been working regularly with the dancer and choreographer Felix Landerer since 2006.

The theater group Commedia Futura rehearsed and played in various locations in Hanover in the first few years, took part in festivals and organized workshops in order to shape their own theater aesthetics.

In the EISFABRIK, on ​​the site of the former Germania brewery and the later Heuweg works , a factory for clear ice , the troop first converted the black hall and later the central hall into theater halls with 99 seats each. In March 1988 the theater in der EISFABRIK was opened with a Samuel Beckett festival. Since then, Commedia Futura has not only emerged with its own pieces, but also as an organizer of festivals and guest performances and as a co-producer for other independent groups.

Fonts

  • Hans Werner Dannowski: Hanover - far from close. On the move in districts, Hanover (Schlütersche) 2002, p. 134ff

Web links

Commons : Commedia Futura (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Sedelies : Commedia Future (sic!) Celebrates in the ice cream factory. haz.de from April 27, 2012 , accessed on May 31, 2012
  2. ^ Heuweg-Werke, Hanover. Hannoversche Eishaus- und Waren -kaufgesellschaft mbH In: Paul Siedentopf (main editor), Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the picture material): The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , Anniversary-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 91

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 54.2 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 7.7"  E