Frankfurt cellar theater

This article describes the cellar theater in Frankfurt. The theater Die Katakombe Frankfurt , which emerged from the actor collective Frankfurter Kellertheater , is mentioned there.

Entrance of the theater on Mainstrasse

The Frankfurt Kellertheater is a free, fully voluntary theater in Frankfurt am Main . It has been located at Mainstrasse 2 since 1980. It is managed by Junge Bühne Frankfurt e. V. and has been registered in the register of associations since 1975. The cellar theater is a member of the Frankfurter Theaterallianz e. V.

The established basement theater sees itself as an ambitious off-stage and has a special position within the Frankfurt scene: Organized as a registered association, the basement theater also gives amateurs of all ages the opportunity to try out performing arts on and behind the stage. For more than 30 years, experienced and newcomers have been able to participate artistically without being a member of the association.

Around three to four productions by different directors and with changing ensembles premiered each year. The program is supplemented by guest performances, for example by independent theater groups or authors. Game days are regularly Friday and Saturday. Once a month the “Maleen Studiobühne” opens in the basement theater with various themes and forms of representation, from drama and music to literature and multimedia.

The basement theater is also open to other groups and young artists. Occasionally the house already housed children's theater and offered workshops on various forms of theater. Since 2013 there have also been productions with and for children. The theater is also used as a springboard: some Frankfurt professional actors took to the stage there for the first time.

Recent productions include such diverse as The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol by Simon McBurney (2008), Dinner for Spinners by Francis Veber (2009), Harold and Maude by Colin Higgins (2009), What you want from William Shakespeare (2010), The Hammer Murderer by Fred Breinersdorfer (2010), Little Man - what now? by Hans Fallada (2012), or mainly work by Sibylle Berg (2013).

history

The history of the association goes back to 1957, when the director Werner Andreas, who died in 2006, founded the Junge Bühne 57 e. V. founded the America House as a venue in the first few years . Her objective included the performance and dissemination of "time and socially critical pieces", although discussions with the audience after the performances were common and why she had to leave her first venue. The authors recorded at this time included Peter Turrini , Edward Albee , Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Fernando Arrabal , and several of the latter's pieces were also shown in the current domicile.

Between 1975 and 1980, the club played in a community center in the Northwest center , but a handful of spectators to its members followed in the located in a shopping center almost at the former outskirts former cinema rooms, its current home on Main Street, the former premises of the music pub Gully (with which it there was a temporary collaboration in the form of joint membership and special productions for this restaurant): an old vaulted cellar. This explains the public renaming from “Young Stage” to “Cellar Theater”.

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official website of the Frankfurter Theaterallianz
2. ↑ Trailer for the piece The main thing is work on YouTube

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 34.75 "  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 22.27"  E