Nettelstedt open-air theater
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| Address: | Hünenbrinkstrasse 4 |
| City: | Lübbecke - Nettelstedt |
| Coordinates: | 52 ° 17 '54.4 " N , 8 ° 41' 34.2" E |
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| Opened: | 09.09.1923 |
| Spectator: | 900 seats |
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| Website: | Nettelstedt open-air theater |
The Nettelstedt open-air theater is an amateur theater stage in the Nettelstedt district of the East Westphalian city of Lübbecke in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The stage has existed since 1923, making it one of the oldest amateur open-air theaters in Germany. There are around 900 seats available.
The amateur theater plays a play for adults every Saturday and a children's and family play every Sunday (Whitsunday until the last Sunday in August). Since 1982, the Nettelstedter Ensemble has also offered a winter piece every year, which, due to the approx. 80 seats and the small distance between the audience and the stage, has a chamber play-like character. The performances usually take place on the last three weekends in January.
history
The first beginnings of the Nettelstedt amateur play can be traced back to 1919. That year, the then 30-year-old teacher Karl Meyer-Spelbrink came to Nettelstedt with his wife and two children. Marked by the years of the First World War , he hoped to find a healthy environment for himself and his family. What he found, however, were people in dire need and widespread tuberculosis. Meyer-Spelbrink wanted to help. In particular, he wanted to build a children's home. The open-air games of the play community Nettelstedt started on Sunday, September 9th, 1923 at 4:15 p.m. (start of the performance). This first performance took place on an "unstaggered green slope in front of the random forest contour of the play hill". In 1929 the construction of the Hünenbrinkturm was completed and its three bells with the names "Unity", "Law" and "Freedom" were consecrated. In 1934 the historical drama Die Hermannsschlacht by Christian Dietrich Grabbe , which deals with the historical battle between the Cheruscan prince Arminius (Hermann) and the Roman army under Varus in the year 9 AD, premiered here. The piece, which was highly acclaimed by the National Socialists with its nationalistic tones, has since been frowned upon and is only rarely played. In recent years, the play community has devoted itself to the modern, light muse: in addition to children's classics and comedies, musicals in particular have attracted audiences.
Founder of the open-air theater
- Karl Meyer-Spelbrink (1890–1962)
In 1919 Meyer-Spelbrink came to Nettelstedt with his wife and two children. The First World War, which he experienced as an officer and in which he was badly wounded, had marked him. He hoped to find a healthy environment for himself and his family in Nettelstedt. What he found, however, were people in dire need and widespread tuberculosis. A crucial hour in view of the later open-air play came when Karl Meyer-Spelbrink was asked to help organize a harvest festival in 1919. The idea of Karl Meyer-Spelbrink was "to please the people of the post-war period of the First World War with happy and serious play, to familiarize them with the great classics in an entertaining way, and to take away some of their everyday worries". On February 3, 1963, the tireless organizer, long-time chairman and honorary chairwoman of the Freilichtspiele Spielgemeinde Nettelstedt e. V.
- Wilhelm Korte (1896–1957)
The teacher Wilhelm Korte, who came to Nettelstedt in 1919, took over the game management in 1924 and was the artistic head of the game community for many years. With great expertise, Korte knew how to give the Nettelstedt open-air play decisive impulses. The Freilichtbühne Nettelstedt owes Wilhelm Korte a whole series of popular plays as premieres. Not to be forgotten is his acting skills, which gave many of the roles he played the decisive format. Korte also played the role of Gessler in the "founding piece" Wilhelm Tell. Wilhelm Korte died on March 15, 1957.
