German Theater Göttingen
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The German Theater (DT) is a theater in Göttingen built in 1890 . The theater is the largest in Göttingen.
history
After the major fire of the old city theater on Neuer Markt, today's Wilhelmsplatz, on the night of January 10th to 11th, 1887, the citizens of Göttingen agreed on the need for a new, dignified theater building. On July 18, 1887, the city committees made the decision to build the theater between the Royal High School (today's Max Planck High School ) and the Göttingen ramparts at the Botanical Garden in the East Quarter . The fears (carried up to the district president and minister of education) that the proximity of the theater would pose a moral hazard to the students of the grammar school proved to be unfounded.
The theater was built in the years 1889 and 1890 as a duplicate of the Oldenburg Grand Ducal Court Theater by the architectörenheim according to the plans of the Oldenburg court architect Gerhard Schnitger as a stone building in the neo-renaissance style.
The house was then opened on September 30, 1890 as the Göttingen City Theater with the jubilation overture by Carl Maria von Weber and subsequent performance of Schiller's Wilhelm Tell . Since then it has been expanded and renovated several times (1904 and 1927), most recently in 1981–84, when, according to plans by the Göttingen architect Jochen Brandi, on the west side of the Wall u. a. the glass pavilion was added.
The first director of the new Stadttheater am Wall, Norbert Berstl, ran the theater for 16 years until 1906. His successor until 1917 was Willi Martini. The outbreak and the time of the First World War naturally had an impact on the work of the theater. In 1917 the situation was u. a. so difficult due to the scarcity of coal that the house had to be closed.
From 1917 to 1919 the theater was under the direction of the municipal music director, Philipp Werner. During this time, however, there were only guest performances on the stages of Hanover, Kassel and Braunschweig with operas, operettas and plays.
In autumn 1919 the city of Göttingen decided to reopen the house with its own productions. Otto Werner was elected director, who ran the house until 1929. According to his musical origin (tenor buffo) and with the agreement of the city, he also included operas and operettas in the program.
In 1929, with the chamber singer Paul Stiegler , a man of the musical theater became director again. The strong emphasis of his tenure until 1936 lay in the opera field. For Stiegler, recognition was inevitable. When he was to be appointed the new director of a larger and financially better-equipped theater, Director Stiegler was appointed first director of the Göttingen City Theater.
From 1936 until the end of the Second World War, theater was also performed in Göttingen according to harmonized cultural and political ideas. In the 1936/37 season, Karl Bauer took over the management until 1940. His successors were Gustav Rudolf Sellner until 1943 and then Hans Karl Friedrich until the house was closed due to the worsening war situation in autumn 1944.
After the reopening in 1946, the general music director Fritz Lehmann , who came from Wuppertal, became the last director of the 3-branch theater until 1950. In the long run, the elaborate 3-division operation could not be maintained with adequate quality and under solid conditions for the employees in it. Thus, by a council resolution, the abandonment of the music divisions and the establishment of the theater GmbH "Deutsches Theater in Göttingen" were decided.
The city won over one of the most renowned theater people in Germany: Heinz Hilpert for the plan to essentially only maintain the theater business . With the appointment of Hilpert, who embodied the best theater tradition in Berlin as the successor to Max Reinhardt and long-standing director of the Deutsches Theater and the Kammerspiele Berlin, a glamorous epoch in Göttingen's theater life began on September 16, 1950. In the 1950/51 season, the orchestra under the direction of Günther Weißenborn and a ballet group under the ballet master Hans von Kusserow for symphony concerts , ballet and operetta performances could initially be retained. After that, for financial reasons, the ballet had to be dissolved, while the orchestra re-established itself as the " Göttingen Symphony Orchestra ", further under the direction of Günther Weißenborn.
Heinz Hilpert and his Deutsches Theater in Göttingen achieved the reputation of an excellent theater with a selected ensemble with strong personalities and a deliberately designed program with the participation of his senior director Eberhard Müller-Elmau , who became an honorary member of the DT in 1980 and received the medal of honor of the city of Göttingen in 1990 . Göttingen, which had long had a name as a university town, was now also known as a theater town. For 16 years he was the by no means comfortable, admired, respected and beloved principal of the DT, to which he belonged as an actor and director after his time as senior director until his death in 1995.
In 1966, the Mainz-born director Günther Fleckenstein von Hilpert took over the management of the house. He preserved the reputation of the DT and in the 20 years of his directorship, the longest management phase in the Haus am Wall to date, set new accents with a high-quality, committed program. Consistent author care, a much-noticed "antique cycle", the recording of pieces by young German authors, but also the presentation of the tried and tested repertoire in a new, contemporary perspective were the focus of his work.
Heinz Engels from Düsseldorf , director of the DT from 1986 to 1999, with whom he had previously worked as a director, dealt critically and comprehensively with people and the central issues of interpersonal relationships in his program. B. the generation conflict and the emancipation of women apart. He drew attention to mistakes and weaknesses, taught how to see through the presentation of inadequacies in the coexistence of our society: What we see through, we can fix!
Directors
- Paul Stiegler
- Karl Bauer
- Gustav Rudolf Sellner
- Hans Karl Friedrich
- Fritz Lehmann
- Heinz Hilpert
- Günther Fleckenstein
- Heinz Engels
- Mark Zurmühle , 1999 to 2014
- Erich Sidler , since 2014
The German Theater today
As the largest spoken theater in Göttingen, the Deutsches Theater offers repertoire on three stages: Großes Haus (DT-1), DT-2 (formerly Studio) and DT-X (Keller, Bellevue etc.). Erich Sidler has been Artistic Director at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen since the 2014/15 season .
DT-1 The large house with parquet and three tiers offers seating for 496 spectators and is an architectural jewel of the city of Göttingen. The furnishing of the auditorium with decorations in the neo-renaissance style essentially reflects the spatial impression of the time of origin, the end of the 19th century. The classic peep show stage comes up with modern stage and lighting technology, which enables contemporary, artistically demanding staging of old and new theater texts. With the permanent theater ensemble, around twenty new pieces are produced every season and shown in the repertoire, eleven of them on the stage of the Great House. Resumptions, guest performances, concerts, readings and special events complement the program.
DT-2 The studio stage set up in the early 1980s as part of extensive renovations and extensions is a multifunctional black box that can accommodate around 100 visitors. The modern and comfortable seating of this venue is variable and depends on the requirements of the pieces shown. As a rule, the spectators sit on a stepped grandstand, which guarantees a very good view. The offer of the venue is extensive and varied. It ranges from classic theater texts in small-format productions tailored for a young audience to contemporary drama, the cabaret comedy offers as well as the demanding staged reading. In addition, pieces for children from four years of age, teenagers and young adults are shown.
DT-X In the basement of the Deutsches Theater, the stage and gastronomy are ideally combined. The semicircular dining room on two levels, which is easily accessible from the bistro in the glass foyer and is located directly under the main stage of the Great House, can accommodate up to 80 spectators. Sofas and bistro chairs at tables offer space on the lower level. The guests sit in groups of tables on the semicircular, loft-like upper level. On the basement stage, the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater mainly presents comedy and themed evenings, literary and musical programs: concerts with jazz standards, lyrical guitar rock, pop songs and instrumental and vocal experiments are just as much at home here as love poetry and horror stories. The monthly schedules provide detailed information about the program.
literature
- Norbert Baensch (Ed.): Theater am Wall: Stations in Göttingen theater history . Steidl, Göttingen 1992.
- Hans-Christian Winters: Conflagration and citizens' initiative. 90 years ago the people of Göttingen got their new theater . In: Göttinger Jahresblätter . tape 3 , 1980, ISSN 0172-861X , p. 46-57 .
- Norbert Baensch: From the traveling stage to the standing theater . In: Geschichtsverein Göttingen und Umgebung eV (Ed.): Göttinger Jahrbuch . tape 25 . The workshop, 1977, ISSN 0072-4882 , p. 107-117 .
- Wilhelm van Kempen: Theater history of Göttingen from 1890 to the present . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch . tape 1 , 1952, pp. 74-83 .
- The directorship of Mark Zurmühle at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen . In: Lutz Keßler (Hrsg.): Theater of the time . Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943881-77-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oliver Schröer: Stadtarchiv Göttingen : Chronicle for the year 1928
- ^ Peter Krüger-Lenz: Erich Sidler new director at the Deutsches Theater (DT) Göttingen . In: Göttinger Tageblatt . February 27, 2013 ( goettinger-tageblatt.de ).
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