Colosseum (Lübeck)

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Entrance to the Colosseum 2009
Hall before a concert , rear part separated by a curtain, March 2018
Exterior view and garden of the old Colosseum, 1902
The old Colosseum, 1907
In the garden of the old Colosseum, 1901

The Colosseum is a listed concert, theater and event hall in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein). The hall in the St. Jürgen district belongs to the society for the promotion of non-profit activities , which was founded in 1789 .

history

Advertisement for the last screenings in the Camera 1969

The “Friendship” inn was located on Kronsford Avenue outside the old town island, and a hall of mirrors was added in 1866 . A pillar and stage hall with space for 3000 people and called "Colosseum" was added in 1875. It had Roman style columns and was decorated with stucco . In 1931, the hall fell to the savings and loan fund in Lübeck in a foreclosure auction , which in 1937 transferred it to the “non-profit organization”. Their subsidiary, the Verein der Musikfreunde , organized the symphony concerts here before and after the Second World War, which were taken over by municipal directors in 1947 and immediately moved to the town hall despite the poor acoustics there .

After the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 , the hall was used as a makeshift store until 1944 because of the damage to the Karstadt building on Breiten Straße . The Lübeck Theater used it as a venue from 1946 to 1949. With the financial means of a generous bequest from the consul Reinhard Dieckmann and his wife Lilli in 1958, the hall was rebuilt and reopened in 1959 with more than a thousand seats. At that time it was considered the most modern concert hall in Northern Germany with excellent acoustics. In addition, a cinema was built in 1951 under the name Camera .

Another remodel was made in the early 1970s. The cinema disappeared in 1969 and the number of seats was reduced to 680. The interior was designed with a cloudy, azure-blue ceiling, brown-red walls, red-padded armchairs and crystal chandeliers based on the style ideas of the time. In 1974 the renovation was completed. Since then, the hall has been hidden behind a facade from the 1970s in a complex with 23 apartments for the elderly and a row of shops.

On November 23, 1999, a dummy bomb was found in front of the Coliseum. The criminal police did not rule out a connection with a reading by Günter Grass planned for the evening .

The hall was renovated in 2008/2009. The building services were renewed and adapted to the requirements of fire protection and damage caused by dry rot was removed. The hall got a lifting platform and new seats. The number of seats was reduced to 520. Stucco work on the ceiling, walls and pillars was repaired or replaced. The foyer was redesigned and false ceilings removed. The renovation costs of 2.2 million euros were each borne by the Possehl Foundation , the non-profit Sparkassenstiftung zu Lübeck and the non-profit organization. The hall was put back into operation in April 2009.

Artist

Prominent artists have performed in the Colosseum throughout its history. One of them was the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler , who said goodbye to Lübeck on April 28, 1915 with a folk symphony concert. Other artists were the Russian cellist Natalja Gutman , the Russian-born pianist Wladimir Aschkenasi , the cellist David Geringas , the French accordionist Lydie Auvray , the singers René Kollo and Christoph Prégardien and the Prague Vlach Quartet . André Holst made his first appearance as a presenter in March 1982.

The Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater performed regularly , and the Berlin travesty theater Chez Nous also performed several times. The cabaret artists included Hanns Dieter Hüsch , Hans-Werner Olm and Emil Steinberger , and Sissi Perlinger and Atze Schröder were also on stage. The light muse was represented by the chansonnier Tim Fischer , the songwriter Hannes Wader and the singer Helen Schneider .

Veronica Carstens gave a lecture on naturopathy and the climate researcher Mojib Latif spoke about global climate change. André Eisermann read from Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther . In 2002 Günter Grass read from his novella Im Krebsgang in the Colosseum , in the same year Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre presented his book Deutsches Theater .

Web links

Commons : Colosseum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Behrens: 175 years of non-profit work , Lübeck 1964, p. 124 ff.
  2. ^ Georg Behrens, 175 years of non-profit work , Lübeck 1964, p. 142; Note: Ms. Lilli Dieckmann ran one of the great salons of the first half of the 20th century. The childless couple established the charitable as the sole heir of their property.
  3. ↑ Board of Directors of the Society (Ed.): 200 years of persistence and change in bourgeois public spirit. Society for the promotion of non-profit activities in Lübeck 1789-1989. Lübeck 1989, p. 158
  4. ↑ Liliane Jolitz: The career of a concert hall In: Lübecker Nachrichten of December 13, 2008, p. 18
  5. ^ Uwe Krog: Bomb alarm in the Lübeck Coliseum In: Lübecker Nachrichten of November 24, 1999, p. 4
  6. ^ Rüdiger Jacob: Feinschliff am Stuck: A cure for the Coliseum In: Lübecker Nachrichten of July 30, 2008, p. 11
  7. ↑ Oliver Vogt: The old Colosseum will be like new again In: Lübecker Nachrichten of March 4, 2009, p. 12
  8. ^ The love of a city for "its" conductor In: Lübecker Nachrichten of June 12, 2005, supplement p. 4

Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 16.7 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 20.9 ″  E