Heinz Hilpert Theater
The Heinz Hilpert Theater is a theater building that opened in Lünen in 1958 . It is a listed building . It was built according to plans by Gerhard Graubner and was named after the director Heinz Hilpert , who often made guest appearances in Lünen with the Deutsches Theater Göttingen and also gave the opening speech. The only full theater in the area of today's Unna district was presented to the public and handed over to the public on September 20, 1958 with a glamorous Aida performance by the Essen theaters.
Some data and facts
The construction costs amounted to approx. 4.2 million German marks. The theater holds 765 visitors. In the first few years it was also the seat of the Westphalian Symphony Orchestra. Large stages of the German-speaking theater host representative performances. The Schedule includes from operas and operettas , comedies , comedies to the seriousness of the drama , the tragedy and the drama along with ballet performances . Well-known soloists , entertainers and orchestras round off the varied offer.
A special highlight is the New Year's concert, which has been performed by the Westphalian Symphony Orchestra (now: Neue Philharmonie Westfalen ) under the direction of well-known conductors in front of a sold out house without interruption since the opening . The orchestra performed with the internationally known soprano Judith Spiesser for the first time at the New Year's Concert 2018/2019 .
Since 1977 the international Jazz-Light-Festival has taken place every November in the theater and in the adjoining Hanse-Saal.
In 2018, for the 60th anniversary of the European Cultural Heritage Year, the theater received the Big Beautiful Building (BBB) award and plaque .
literature
- Friends of Theater Lünen e. V. (Ed.): A stage with obstinacy. 60 years of Lünen Theater (= series of publications by the Lünen City Archives; 20). Edited by Barbara Höpping , Hans-Jürgen Korn, Peter Freudenthal, Wolfgang Olschewski, Jutta Wieloch, Dirk Husemann. City archive, Lünen 2018 (300 pages).
Web links
- Lünen Culture Office
- Hans-Hilpert-Theater on picture postcards