Flying Buildings Hamburg

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The flying structures on the Glacischaussee

The Flying Buildings are a private theater in Hamburg . Game operations are currently suspended.

The Flying Buildings program stands for extraordinary international productions, the language of which is borne primarily by music and physicality. Above all, it also stands for the New Circus. The program includes body art, acrobatics and dance shows as well as cabaret and concerts.

history

The theater was founded in the early 1980s as a free group by Matthias Kraemer and Sebastiano Toma. The ensemble traveled across Germany with a circus tent and caravan. At the beginning of the 1990s, the artist group disbanded and Toma and Kraemer laid the foundation for today's theater: As theater producers, they founded the “Flying Buildings Productions” and the “Meerkabarett” on Sylt was born. First a tent was pitched in Wenningstedt in 1994 , then it was off to the airport grounds near Westerland . A few years later, the idea of ​​settling down in Hamburg took hold.

From 1999, the location for the “flying structures” in Hamburg was Simon-von-Utrecht-Strasse and the corner of Seilerstrasse in St. Pauli, initially from autumn to spring . In the summer, the "sea cabaret" was dismantled on Sylt with the same equipment. Because of a residential development, the theater finally moved to the southern ramparts , the previous year-round location.

The laying of the foundation stone for the new four-masted big top at Glacischaussee 4 (near Heiligengeistfeld and the Millerntor / St. Pauli underground station ) took place in April 2002. In 2003 Indra Wussow, head of "Sylt-Quelle", bought the company. The Flying Buildings were restructured, the theater in Hamburg was organizationally separated from the Meerkabarett on Sylt. A few months later, Thomas Collien and Joachim Wussow took over management and the programmatic realignment of the temporary buildings. In the following years, international entertainment shows went on tour from here.

In 2009 Guido Marc Gosch gradually took over the management. Gosch is the managing director of a consulting company with a focus on advising cultural businesses. First, he stepped in as managing director for Thomas Collien, who was tied to other projects. Together with other shareholders, the theater could be taken over as requested. The keys were handed over on September 10, 2009. Guido Marc Gosch has always accompanied the "Flying Buildings" since Sylt days in changing positions, since July 2010 he has been the sole operator of the tent theater.

At the beginning of 2012, the lease agreement for the site on the Glacischaussee, which expired in 2014, could unexpectedly not be extended again by the responsible district office, as the area had to be returned to the ramparts. On June 1, 2014, the Flying Buildings ended their 13-year season in the tent theater on Glacischaussee. As agreed, the property was returned to the manager by Mr. Gosch, the tent dismantled, the site dismantled and everything disposed of. Various options for a new opening of the theater in a permanent house in cooperation with the cultural authority and the district offices could be committed and examined in recent years. In autumn 2014 an interesting property seemed to have been found in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld, which was politically confirmed as such in early 2015. As a permanent building, the Flying Buildings should still have the planning security that a theater and venue operator needs for long-term success on a solid foundation. In the spring of 2016, however, the building application had to be withdrawn due to a very complicated building permit process. Unfortunately, an alternative to this location has not yet been found.

program

The "Flying Buildings" offer a year-round full program with body art, concerts and cabaret.

Every evening German and international artists appear in the “Flying Buildings”. Artists such as Gustav Peter Wöhler , Roger Cicero , Inga Rumpf , Tina Dico , Bob Geldof, Anett Louisian, Richard Marx, Olli Schulz, Birdy and Naturally 7 come to the theater tent for concert evenings . " NDR Hamburg Sounds" and the "Lausch Lounge" regularly transformed the "Flying Buildings" into a concert hall. The Red Hot Chili Peppers were also there to present their new CD to a select audience. Comedy, parody and cabaret have already been represented by Jörg Knör , Atze Schröder , Willy Astor , Mike Krüger, the “ Pfister Siblings ” and Stermann & Grissemann, as well as shows from “Cavewoman” and the “ Chippendales ” from Las Vegas . The buildings always remain particularly connected to the circus arts, artists such as Ed Alonso, Peter Shub, Cora Frost, Camile O´Sullivan, the Umbilical Brothers, Sascha Grammel, Thorsten Havener or the Tumble Circus round off the program.

The focus under the tent dome, however, is the young and modern body art in various facets: For example, with the “Tom Tom Crew” from Australia, circus acrobatics meet hip-hop beats, with the dance and artistry show “6 & 7 - The Art of Dance and Artistic "from Ukraine modern dance based on acrobatics and the" Race Horse Company "from Finland shows daring circus of the next generation against the backdrop of a junkyard . With productions such as “Cirque Nono” from the “Theater Nono”, a Cirque Nouveau from Marseille, Hanoch Rosenn's “Speechless - a man's journey through the 3D world” from Israel, a combination of pantomime and technology, “La Soireé” one multiple times award-winning cocktail from burlesque, cabaret and new circus or, most recently, with the "Briefs", Australia's hottest New Circus, Germany premieres in the "Flying Buildings" take place again and again.

The program is complemented by internationally renowned dance shows, especially the tango has a permanent home in the Flying Buildings.

Productions (selection)

  • The 7 doigts de la main
  • La Soireé
  • Cie Akoreacro
  • Briefs
  • Tom Tom Crew
  • Cirkus Cirkör
  • Jump
  • 6 & 7 - The Art of Dance and Artistic
  • Thu Theater "Anatomy of Fantasy / Sacred Season"
  • Hanoch Rosenn's "Speechless"
  • Sheketak
  • Theater Nono with "Cirque Nono"
  • TAO
  • The Bar at Buena Vista
  • Yellow hands

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irmela Kästner: Long live anarchy! In: welt.de . December 26, 2010, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Heidi Giebel: Forms of Free Theater: New Circus . An inventory of the current situation in the Circesan arts. Grin Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-71185-2 , p. 65 ( Google Books [accessed January 9, 2011]).
  3. ^ Gs: New hotel center on St. Pauli. In: The world . Axel Springer AG, April 12, 2002, accessed on January 9, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Claus Hornung: Whoever laughs last, hopefully laughs best. In: The world. Axel Springer AG, July 12, 2003, accessed on January 9, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Susanna Andrick: Flying Buildings with new owners and a star chef . In: The world . Axel Springer AG, September 11, 2009, accessed on January 9, 2011 .
  6. ↑ https://www.welt.de/print/wams/vermischtes/article11828350/Es-lebe-die-Anarchie.html

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 6.9 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 17.6 ″  E