Harburg Theater

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Theater and museum with a porch on the museum square (2010). View from Knoopstrasse.
Harburg City Theater (Kerschensteinerstraße) around 1900

The Harburger Theater is a privately operated theater in Hamburg . The program consists of a mixture of classics, comedies, contemporary pieces and musicals. The theater hall is located in the main building of the Archaeological Museum Hamburg (Helms Museum) on Museum Square in Harburg . Axel Schneider has been the artistic director since 2003 and also directs the Altona Theater and the Hamburger Kammerspiele .

history

The theater was founded in 1893 as the Harburg City Theater of the then independent city of Harburg (Elbe) . Parts of the Oldenburg State Theater , which had previously burned down, were used in the construction. The house on Kerschensteiner Strasse was bombed in 1944 during World War II. A sports hall was built in the same place in 1961.

After the end of the war in 1945, Hans Fitze took over the management of the Harburg Municipal Stage - in the hall of the "Rönneburger Park" restaurant. After the city of Hamburg decided not to continue to finance the theater, Fitze continued to run the stage as a private theater in changing locations, such as the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle , from 1949 , before finally moving into the hall in the new building of the Helms Museum. Hans Fitze successfully managed the theater for a long time and in 1954 also took over the management of the Altona Theater. Both theaters then ran into financial difficulties and had to close in 1994.

From 1995 to 2003 the Harburg Theater was played by the Stadttheater Lüneburg. Then Axel Schneider, who had previously been successful at the Altona Theater, took over as artistic director in Harburg in 2003 and achieved a seat occupancy of 75% (around 1,100 subscribers in 2009).

In 2009 the foyer of the theater and museum was expanded to include a glass porch with a cash desk and restaurant.

people

  • Hans Fitze Intendant / Director from 1945 to 1994

actor

literature

Ernst Brennecke: Harburg Theater. History and stories. Publication of the Helms-Museum, Archaeological Museum Hamburg, Stadtmuseum Harburg No. 103. ISBN 978-3-931429-25-6 .

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Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '32.5 "  N , 9 ° 58' 38.3"  E