Landestheater Neustrelitz
The Landestheater Neustrelitz (formerly Friedrich-Wolf-Theater and Landestheater Mecklenburg ) in Neustrelitz with 400 seats in the large house is the main venue of the Theater und Orchester GmbH Neubrandenburg / Neustrelitz .
Music theater and drama productions as well as philharmonic concerts and ballet evenings are presented here by the in-house ensembles. During the summer months, the neighboring castle garden forms the backdrop for the Neustrelitz Castle Garden Festival with open-air operetta and drama productions.
history
Immediately behind the current location of the theater there was a riding house since 1755, built by Martin Seydel , which was converted into a comedy and redoute house in 1775 and was called the Mecklenburgisch-Strelitzsches Hoftheater from 1779 . After the end of the monarchy, the theater was renamed Landestheater Neustrelitz in 1919 . In January 1924, the building, which was then used as a theater for 150 years, burned to the ground.
According to plans by the renowned Munich theater architect Max Littmann , a new building was then constructed by the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1925 to 1928 . Other architects involved were Heinrich Düll, Georg Pezold, Hugo Schimmel, May Sollinger and Matthias Teller. The house was opened on June 2, 1928 with Mozart's opera “ Così fan tutte ”.
On April 29, 1945 the Red Army occupied Neustrelitz; In the night of April 30, 1945 , the theater was destroyed by arson in addition to Neustrelitz Castle and other buildings. 1952–1954 it was rebuilt by the architects G. Böckler, E. Conell and F. Torka while maintaining the exterior; the interior was built in modern forms.
After the war, the Mecklenburg State Theater played under the most difficult conditions in the hall of a former hotel until 1954. In 1954 the theater was reopened under the name Friedrich-Wolf-Theater . In front of the theater there is still a bronze bust of the name giver, the writer and communist politician Friedrich Wolf, who died in 1953 .
From 1991 the theater was called State Theater Mecklenburg . Since 2000 it has been the main stage as the Landestheater Neustrelitz and the seat of the directorship of Theater und Orchester GmbH Neubrandenburg / Neustrelitz , which also plays the Schauspielhaus Neubrandenburg . In 2010, fire protection and structural deficits in the Landestheater Neustrelitz were remedied in a major construction project.
archive
The State Theater's archive will be accessible from October 2015 in the Mecklenburg-Strelitz Kulturquartier in the Alte Post in Neustrelitz.
Personalities
Directors
- Paul von Bongardt , 1928–1932
- Josef Adolf Weindich , 1968–1991
literature
- Erika founder: On the history of the theater in Neustrelitz . In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte , 9th year 1933
- Max Littmann: The State Theater in Neustrelitz in Mecklenburg . Munich 1928
- Otto Weddigen: The Grand Duke. Court theater in Neustrelitz , in: History of theaters in Germany . Volume 2. Berlin 1904, pp. 916–926 ( digitized version )
- Horst Zänger: Theater in Mecklenburg. Little story and stories . Self-published, Schwerin 2002, ISBN 3-8311-3356-5 , pp. 21-27
Web links
- Website of the theater
- Timeline at the culture portal Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Views of the theater at bildindex.de
- The theater on old postcards
Individual evidence
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↑ Kölnische Zeitung , evening edition, No. 39.1924, January 16, 1924;
Caption: The Neustrelitz State Theater burned down (...). In: Wiener Bilder , No. 4/1924, January 27, 1924, p. 7, top right. (Online at ANNO ). . - ↑ a b Neustrelitz - Landestheater Mecklenburg , in: Historische Theaterbauten. A catalog. Part 2. Eastern federal states (reports on research and practice in monument preservation in Germany; 4). Verlag Bildung und Wissen, Bad Homburg 1994, ISBN 3-927879-55-X , p. 72 f.
- ↑ bbl-mv.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '32.3 " N , 13 ° 3' 17.7" E