The comedians

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Die Komödianten is a private theater in Kiel . It was founded in 1984 by actor Markus Dentler .

history

After the performances initially took place in the former ELAC Electroacustic canteen , after a year the theater moved to a former locksmith's shop in Kiel's Wilhelminenstrasse, which can seat 99 spectators. Since 1993, Die Komödianten have also performed The Little Prince every summer on an open-air stage in the courtyard of Kiel City Hall, based on the story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry .

Die Komödianten have made guest appearances in Denmark , Norway , Sweden , Moscow , Kaliningrad and Brest as well as in New York in the United Nations building .

Awards

At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe , The Comedians were awarded four stars for the street theater version of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot . The theater was awarded by the Federal President for the cultural exchange with the German National Theater Kaliningrad .

literature

Rolf-Peter Carl: Markus Dentler and his "comedians" - Kiel's oldest private theater , in: Schleswig-Holstein. The culture magazine for the north , issue 03/2019, pp. 42–52 (online version) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Theater Die Komödianten . In: www.kiel-sailing-city.de . Kiel Marketing e. V. / GmbH. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ Markus Dentler, head of the Kieler Komödianten, about life in the theater . In: www.schattenblick.de . MA-Verlag Helmut Barthel. August 5, 2011. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c “Die Komödianten” have been an authority in Kiel for 25 years . In: Kiel News . Kieler Zeitung Verlags- und Druckerei KG GmbH. March 17, 2009. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  4. ^ "The Little Prince" in Kiel: Open-air theater in the inner courtyard of the town hall. . In: www.alles-meins.coop . coop eG . Archived from the original on August 12, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  5. ↑ Theater Die Komödianten . In: www.theaterverzeichnis.de . Deutschland24.de GmbH. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  6. ^ Theater Die Komödianten Kiel . In: www.kulturpur.de . Kulturpur GmbH. Retrieved July 29, 2014.

Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 35.7 ″  N , 10 ° 7 ′ 43.1 ″  E