Detmold summer theater
The Detmold Summer Theater is an elongated half-timbered building south of Detmold city center. The theater, which opened on July 26, 1896, is one of the last surviving summer theaters in Germany. Pieces by well-known authors such as Goethe , Schiller , Hauptmann , Hebbel and Grillparzer were performed up to the First World War . When the Detmold court theater burned down on February 5, 1912 , the summer theater served as a princely interim theater until September 29, 1919 . During the entire period of its existence, the summer theater was also used for other events and functioned as a hall for the neighboring restaurant Neuer Krug . Numerous club parties, larger private family celebrations and dance fun took place here. Another attraction at the beginning of the 20th century were the first film screenings that took place in the summer theater hall. In 1925, the summer theater was stopped and the house was sold.
In the same year the new owner, wine merchant Carl Brockmann , had the building on the south side expanded. The neoclassical architecture of the extension showed a clear difference to the half-timbered building of the summer theater. The hall building now offered space for 1,500 visitors and was used as a restaurant, Neuer Krug , as well as for public events. During the Weimar Republic , more and more political events took place here. The high point is considered to be the time of the last free state parliament elections in Lippe in January 1933, when the National Socialists led an elaborate election campaign in Lippe. A large rally with Göring and Goebbels took place in the hall of the Neuer Krug on January 13th . At the beginning of the Second World War , members of the state rifle battalion camped in the great hall for a short time before they were brought to Poland as occupation soldiers . After the end of the war in 1945, the former summer theater was confiscated by the British occupying forces to look after the troops and was only returned in 1952. The theater had already been renovated in 1945 and converted into a theater, musical theater and film theater. It was now called the Residenztheater Neuer Krug . In 1955 the cinema, now renamed the Reginatheater , was modernized again and equipped with 600 seats. The Riverside Club opened here in 1969 as one of the first large discos in Detmold. After that, the building served as an antiques warehouse and until 1993 as a bar for the Goldener Drache Chinese restaurant .
In 2000, the city of Detmold bought the building, which has been a listed building since 1995, and in autumn 2001 the renovation and restoration work began to restore the former summer theater. The extension from 1925 was demolished and the historic building from 1896 was restored to its original size. On October 3, 2003, the summer theater with 350 seats was ceremoniously reopened and has since been used for events at the neighboring University of Music and the Detmold State Theater .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Heinrich Stiewe: Detmold Summer Theater . In: Lippischer Heimatbund (Ed.): Lippische Kulturlandschaften . tape 3 , 2006, ISBN 3-926311-39-8 .
- ↑ Volker Wehrmann: Lippe in the Third Reich. The education for National Socialism . Ed .: Documentation center for regional cultural and school history. Detmold 1984.
literature
- Heinrich Stiewe: Detmold Summer Theater ( Lippische Kulturlandschaften , booklet 3) . Ed .: Lippischer Heimatbund. 2006, ISBN 3-926311-39-8 .
- Heinrich Stiewe: The summer theater at the “Neuen Krug” in Detmold's Neustadt . In: Detmold around 1900 - Documentation of an urban history project (= special publications by the Natural Science and Historical Association for the Land of Lippe ). tape 72 . Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89528-435-1 , p. 441-479 .
- Volker Wehrmann: Lippe in the Third Reich. The education for National Socialism . Ed .: Documentation center for regional cultural and school history. Detmold 1984.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 43.9 ″ N , 8 ° 52 ′ 23.9 ″ E