Volkstheater Frankfurt

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Entrance (left) below the Goethehaus

The Volkstheater Frankfurt - Liesel Christ was founded in 1971 in Frankfurt am Main by Liesel Christ . In addition to dialect pieces in Frankfurt and classical entertainment, it also played arrangements of classical dramas , contemporary pieces and rediscoveries of older stage literature.

history

Under the direction of its founder and Wolfgang Kaus , the theater established itself as an important cultural institution in Hesse. 20 productions alone have been recorded for television, including Alt-Frankfurt and Rendezvous im Palmengarten (by Adolf Stoltze ), The Imaginary Sick (by Molière , with Heinz Schenk ), The Five Frankfurter (by Carl Rössler , the last appearance of Liesel Christ) and The old citizen captain (by Carl Malß , the inventor of the jumping jack ).

In 1971, Ernst Nebhut wrote Liesel Christ's Hessian “folk musical ” Zur Scheene Fraa , so to speak, and thus gave this small dialect stage its first major success.

Since the founder's death in 1996, it has been under the direction of Gisela Dahlem-Christ (artistic director). Until 2007 Wolfgang Kaus was the artistic director. Since 2010 the "Tatort" director Sylvia Hoffman has been the artistic director of the theater.

Five to six plays were staged annually. Around 80,000 visitors came to the 250 or so performances. In 2011 the Volkstheater celebrated its 40th anniversary. Up until then a good 10,000 performances had been played and over 3.5 million visitors came to the Volkstheater.

The Volkstheater has played in the Cantate Hall next to the Goethe House in Großer Hirschgraben since the 1970s . In the summer from 1975 to 2007 open-air plays took place in the courtyard of the Dominican monastery . Until the redesign of Frankfurt's old town , numerous pieces were performed in the archaeological garden in front of the cathedral , for example the Urfaust or The Hessian Everyman . There were also numerous guest appearances in Hesse and several guest tours to Israel .

For the 2009/2010 season it was planned to transfer the artistic direction of the Volkstheater to Michael Quast . He canceled, however, because “after a careful examination of the economic situation of the house and its organizational structure” it turned out “that both are ailing.” Quast then founded the Fliegende Volksbühne Frankfurt .

At a press conference on April 20, 2012, the closure of the Volkstheater at the end of the 2012/13 season was announced, as the theater building was being demolished and a move with refurbishment could not be financed. The last curtain with the piece La Cage aux Folles fell on May 25, 2013.

On February 24, 2013, 17 employees of the Volkstheater Frankfurt founded the Volkstheater Hessen association in the Cantate Hall in order to continue the aims and purposes of the Frankfurt Volkstheater without a permanent venue and subsidies. The new association campaigned for the preservation of the Cantate Hall and collected signatures for it.

In 2013 the city of Frankfurt decided to restore the Cantate Hall as part of the construction of the German Romantic Museum . It has served as a venue for the Fliegende Volksbühne since the beginning of 2020 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "The golden girl" on sabinehock.de
  2. ↑ Quast will not be the new head. . In: Frankfurter Rundschau from September 30, 2008
  3. ↑ Last season: The curtain falls in the Volkstheater. Claudia Michels, FR-Online, April 20, 2012
  4. ↑ The last curtain falls. ( Memento from December 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Editing: nrc, HR-Online
  5. ↑ "Irrwegige policy" Folk theater Hesse complained ges, Journal Frankfurt, April 16, 2013
  6. ^ Fliegende Volksbühne Frankfurt

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 40 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 40 ″  E