German-Sorbian People's Theater

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German-Sorbian People's Theater
German-Sorbian People's Theater before the renovation in 2005/06
The old city theater (right) on Lauengraben

The German-Sorbian People's Theater , in Sorbian Němsko-serbske ludowe dźiwadło , in Bautzen is the only professional bicultural theater in Germany. It is an important institution of Sorbian , German and German-Sorbian culture.

history

The Bautzen theater was inaugurated in 1796 in the rifle bastion on Lauengraben, which was formerly part of the city fortifications. Previously, performances had mostly taken place in the old Gewandhaus . During and after the Battle of Bautzen in 1813, the theater served as a hospital . After it became the property of the city in 1865, it was extensively rebuilt in 1868/71. 1905 was awarded the 1840 Ernst Rietschel created Rietschel Gable . In 1963 it merged with the Sorbian People's Theater, which had existed since 1948. In 1968 the theater was demolished as part of the planned expansion of the city of Bautzen into a modern socialist city and in 1975 a new theater was built in the Schiller facilities. In 2003 the Burgtheater / Dźiwadło na hrodźe was inaugurated on the Ortenburg as the second theater building, in which, among other things, puppet theater is performed.

The merger of the theaters of Bautzen, Zittau and Görlitz as well as the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie to form a cultural space theater, which was planned for 2002/03 against the background of falling public funds, was just as impossible to implement as the 2003/2004 merger of the German-Sorbian popular theater the Sorbian National Ensemble in Bautzen.

After one and a half years of renovation, during which the fire protection of the theater in particular was adapted to current standards, the first performance took place on February 17, 2006. On January 11, 2012, the “Societät” administrative and functional building was put into operation after the modernization. Within about 10 years, around 18 million euros were built into the various theater buildings.

statistics

In the 2016/17 season, 152,434 guests attended the 905 events of the German-Sorbian People's Theater.

2017 brought the Volkstheater around 155,000 visitors to over 950 events. 19 premieres were shown in drama and nine in puppet theater. One of the audience highlights was the play The Olsen Gang emigrates in the Bautzen theater summer .

Others

The theater offers drama and puppet theater in German, Upper and Lower Sorbian . Simultaneous translation into German via headphones is offered at many Sorbian events. The Bautzen theater summer in the historic courtyard of the Ortenburg is now of national importance.

Lutz Hillmann has been the artistic director since 1999 .

Web links

Commons : Deutsch-Sorbisches Volkstheater  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sächsische Zeitung, January 12, 2012.
  2. ^ German-Sorbian folk theater with a successful season . In: The world . July 16, 2017 ( online [accessed July 17, 2017]).
  3. ↑ News from Lausitz - News - Radio Lausitz. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
  4. ^ Lutz Hillmann on the pages of the Central Saxon Theater

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 39.3 "  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 29.4"  E