Hamburg horror theater

The Hamburg Horror Theater is an independent theater group based in Hamburg. The group has existed since 2011 and specializes in adapting classical horror literature .

history

Founded in 2011 as a Cologne horror theater , they showed until 2015 in the series Das Kabinett des Doktor Tumblety pieces in the tradition of the French horror theater Grand Guignol , which covered a wide range of the genre with various focuses .

After their second season in Cologne was completely sold out, they toured across Germany from 2013 to 2014, with appearances and the like. a. in Berlin , Hamburg and Stuttgart before settling in Hamburg. During this time they expanded their program beyond Grand Guignol works.

Together with the Aachen University Radio, they developed the radio plays Das Haus des Richters, Dracula and Prometheus or How Frankenstein Came into the World. Since then you have also been on the road with readings of classical horror literature; their most successful series is Einst, um one midnight ... with selected works by Edgar Allan Poe , with which they also appeared in the supporting program of the Zurich literature festival. They also work a lot with youth organizations and have already held horror theater courses at various schools.

Serious horror dramas have been supplementing their program since 2015. The focus is mostly on untold episodes or overlooked aspects of the templates. These dramas also included a trilogy about the fictional master criminal Fantômas , which is one of the first theatrical adaptations of the novels in a good hundred years.

In 2017 they shot their first short film with Poe im Urbanen , in autumn of that year they ran a pop-up stage in Hamburg's Gängeviertel , where different artists read from their works or gave small concerts every evening. These included genre authors such as Vincent Voss, the winner of the German horror literature award, Linda Schyma and Nils Krebber.

In 2018 they organized a "horror slam ", the world's first modification of the classic poetry slam in which only genre stories were presented.

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera and its background form a focus in the group's work. In her piece of Paris! They adapted stories from French horror literature for the first time, with the suicide of the character Joseph Buquet, unseen in the novel, an episode of the book.

In 2017, they added The Secrets of the Phantom of the Opera, their first lecture on the background of a horror novel, to their program; the average length of the lecture is three hours.

After six years of planning and two years of research, her monologue on the life story of the title character, Master of the Trap Doors, celebrated its world premiere at the end of 2018 in Hamburg. The play will run for several years in different German cities and will be interpreted in different versions by various actors.

In October 2019, the first novel by the Hamburg horror theater, Fantômas and the Secret of the Phantom of the Opera , was published by Brighton Verlag. With this book, the artistic director of the group, theater producer Gordon L. Schmitz, wants to show how the most important works, artists and places of activity of horror literature in the late Belle Époque - the Fantômas novels, the Théâtre du Grand Guignol and Gaston Leroux - interact with one another influenced and like no other works captured the fears of their time.

Pieces

2011: Doctor Tumblety's Cabinet: Garage Theater
2011: Suicidal Love
2011: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
2011–2012: Doctor Tumblety's Cabinet: A New World of Gods and Monsters
2012–2013: The Cabinet of Doctor Tumblety: Groschenheft stories
2013: Doctor Tumblety's cabinet: ogre
2014: Doctor Tumblety's Cabinet: Paris! Stories of French horror literature
2015: The Cabinet of Doctor Tumblety: The 5 Carcasses Show
2015: The daughter of Fantômas
2015: The return of the Fantômas
2017: Dracula's guest
2018–2019: Master of the trap doors

Reading series

"Once upon a time, at midnight ..." - The horror stories of Poe
Poe's detective stories
The legend of the Sleepy Gorge
The secrets of the phantom of the opera - excerpts, backgrounds and contexts of an underrated masterpiece of horror literature
#GermanHorror
#GermanHorror - Poetry
Undead! Classics of vampire literature from Polidori to Heine

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ The history of Germany's first horror theater group. Retrieved January 17, 2019 .
^ Aachener Zeitung: Aachen: Theater 99: Horror and crime under the Eiffel Tower. Retrieved January 17, 2019 .
↑ 18.06. Horror Theater at Eckhorst. Retrieved January 17, 2019 .
↑ The daughter of Fantômas. Retrieved on May 21, 2019 (German).
↑ The reading stage of the Hamburg horror theater creates a scary atmosphere! In: AINO Hamburg. Retrieved January 17, 2019 .
↑ The Hamburg Horror Theater on Instagram: "Now we can finally announce it: In the coming season," Master of the trap doors - The story of the phantom of the opera "..." Accessed on May 21, 2019 .
↑ The Hamburg horror theater. Retrieved May 21, 2019 .

[1] The history of Germany's first horror theater group. Retrieved January 17, 2019 .

[2] Aachener Zeitung: Aachen: Theater 99: Horror and crime under the Eiffel Tower. Retrieved January 17, 2019 .

[3] 18.06. Horror Theater at Eckhorst. Retrieved January 17, 2019 .

[4] The daughter of Fantômas. Retrieved on May 21, 2019 (German).

[5] The reading stage of the Hamburg horror theater creates a scary atmosphere! In: AINO Hamburg. Retrieved January 17, 2019 .

[6] The Hamburg Horror Theater on Instagram: "Now we can finally announce it: In the coming season," Master of the trap doors - The story of the phantom of the opera "..." Accessed on May 21, 2019 .

[7] The Hamburg horror theater. Retrieved May 21, 2019 .