Hessian State Theater Marburg

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Front side and entrance area of ​​the HLTM since the redesign in 2018.

The Hessisches Landestheater Marburg , also Hessisches Landestheater or HLTM for short , is a cultural enterprise in Marburg financed by public funds, income from donations and entrance fees . It is one of the six publicly supported theater companies in the state of Hesse.

The theater has four larger and smaller venues as well as a workshop with its own carpentry, locksmithing and tailoring.

With a seasonally committed ensemble , two directors and several dramaturges as well as trainees in event technology, but also with guest appearances and third-party productions , the HLTM shows plays, improvisational, provocative and imaginary theater as well as children's theater or solo programs. In addition, the Hessian Children's and Youth Theater Week takes place every year under the name “KUSS - See theater! Play theater! ”With numerous guest performances.

history

The Philippshaus (Unistraße)

It was founded after the war in 1945 by Lothar Brixius, a student and Ina Köhler an actress. Furthermore, Walter Leinweber and Friedrich Leinert , the organist of the Luther Church at the time, joined and founded the " Marburger Spielgemeinschaft ". Fritz Budde, the head of the lecturer's office for linguistics, lecturing and theater studies at the university was initially against this amateur play, but later he also agreed to support it. After many initial difficulties, such as the lack of props, the permission to perform with the American occupiers or the lack of a venue, the premiere was celebrated on September 2, 1945. The first venue was the Philippshaus of the university parish in Universitätsstrasse. Towards the end of 1945 it was re-established as the Marburg drama group .

Rauischholzhausen Castle, the castle pond in the foreground

In May 1952, Erwin Piscator , who is connected to Marburg through his origins and is now world-famous, staged " Nathan the Wise " by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in Marburg , which he had shown on Broadway exactly ten years earlier .

In 1969 the newly built town hall, the Erwin-Piscator-Haus, with space for 550 people, was inaugurated. From 2013 to 2016 the hall was replaced by a new building.

In 1989 the Marburg theater was renamed the "North Hessian State Theater Marburg", and after the plans for a South Hessian State Theater were abandoned, the current name Hessisches Landestheater Marburg emerged .

Awards

  • Follow-up award of the Heidelberg Stückemarkt 2019 for the production by Eva Lange: "This wall sums itself up and the star has spoken, the star has also said something".

Venues

The old Erwin-Piscator-Haus (town hall)
The new Erwin Piscator house

The Erwin-Piscator-Haus (town hall) is the largest venue and is equipped with its own classic lace floor . It offers space for around 590 people and, if necessary, can be expanded to 920 seats by removing a partition. Since such a large paying audience in the medium-sized town of Marburg and its district cannot be constantly mobilized, the management was entrusted to its own town hall management, from which the State Theater rents the hall exclusively for its large-scale productions.

The actual headquarters of the HLTM is (since the building became vacant in the course of the abandonment of the Bundeswehr location) the former officers' mess Am Schwanhof 68–72. This is where the three main venues of the “Theater am Schwanhof” are located (since 2018 “Large Tasch”, “Small Tasch” with 200 or 100 seats and the Mini Tasch with approx. 50 seats). The offices, the rehearsal stage and a theater canteen are also here. The entrance area was redesigned in 2018.

The venues Schlosspark Rauischholzhausen or Schloss Biedenkopf , some of which were used annually under the management of Ekkehard Dennewitz , were discontinued under the new management, Matthias Faltz. Rauischholzhausen, however, continued to be used for the time being through a private initiative of the former HLTM senior game director Peter Radestock .

Under the directorship of Matthias Faltz, the Fürstensaal in the Landgrafenschloss and the Marburg market square in the upper town were used as performance locations for one production each season . In addition, the courtyard of the old prison and the former shed of the building construction office in the city center were used for special productions in the past .

In the 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 seasons, the town hall was not available due to extensive renovation work. Instead, the so-called Galeria Classica (a former car dealership on Schwanallee) and the Lutheran parish church of St. Marien (Marburg) were used.

Personalities

Directors

Directors

  • Heinz Hilpert
  • Erwin Piscator
  • Stephan Suschke
  • Hansjörg Betschart
  • Hans-Jochen Menzel
  • Gerald Gluth
  • Matthias Faltz
  • Brit Bartkowiak
  • Nino Harativili
  • Matthias Huber
  • Laura Jakschas
  • Shirin Khodadadian
  • Eva Lange
  • Romy Lehmann
  • Philip Lütgenau
  • Marion Schneider-Bast
  • Carola our
  • Susanne fence
  • Twyla cutting
  • Xabisolethu Zweni

Famous guest actors

literature

  • Friederike Beckmann: "Human child, let's play theater!": From the Marburg theater to the Hessian State Theater Marburg . Festschrift for the 60th birthday of the Marburg Theater; Series: Marburger Stadtschriften zur Geschichte und Kultur Volume 85, Marburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-923820-85-6

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Hessian children and youth theater week
  2. ↑ Laudations for the award ceremony at the Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2019 (PDF) , Theater Heidelberg from May 5, 2019, accessed May 6, 2019

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 51.4 "  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 41.4"  E