Hackesches Hoftheater
The Hackesche Hoftheater was a theater and music venue in the Hackesche Höfe in Berlin from 1993 to 2006 . In the GDR , the Hackesche Höfe had been neglected for decades, and restoration of the area began in 1993. Since the Hackesche Hoftheater was initially the only cultural venue there, its focus on Jewish culture became almost synonymous with the courts in the following years.
Ensemble and story
In 1991 the German Theater's pantomime ensemble was dissolved. Its director Burkhart Seidemann (1944–2016) then founded "Das Andere Theater" (DAT) with most of its members. A former storage room in the Hackesche Höfe was rented in 1991 and the individual expansion and conversion into a theater venue began, which - with one-time support from the Kulturfonds Foundation - was opened in 1993 as the Hackesches Hof-Theater (HHT).
In addition to pantomimes and cabaret (with the puppeteer Peter Waschinsky), actors (e.g. Barbara Schnitzler , Heide Bartholomäus , Rike Eckermann , Bettina Schubert , Esther Esche ) also worked in the ensemble. There was children's theater, literature readings and comedy ( Mime Crime , Ursus & Nadeschkin ). Musicians and singers who were friends (including Dietrich Petzold , Mark Aizikovitch , Karsten Troyke , Jalda Rebling , Alex Jacobowitz , Gruppe Aufwind ) took part and in addition to the mimic productions, Jewish themes and Yiddish song theater established themselves . With the thought of some of the protagonists that one could not escape the special history of this central part of Berlin, the concert series “Yiddish Music in a Historical Place” was created. These concerts, which take place 3 times a week, have met with an international response and almost all known Yiddish and Klezmer groups in Europe performed here.
It was not so commercially successful, however. With around 100 seats and up to three performances per day, the theater was able to last for almost 14 years, but the renovation of the Hackesche Höfe also resulted in rising rents, which could no longer be raised from the income from the games. It was closed in early 2006.
The sponsoring association Philomimos e. V. continues to exist and has been organizing performances, Christmas theater and Klezmer music festivals in the CEDIO event center in the Storkower Arches in Berlin-Lichtenberg for more than 10 years on around 20 days a year . The seat of the association is at Franz-Jacob-Straße 2b.