Leipzig theater
The Leipziger Schauspielhaus was a private theater in the southern suburb of Leipzig , the current district center-south. It was located at Sophienstrasse 17-19 (today: Shakespearestrasse). The building, which was completely destroyed in the air raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 , was not rebuilt.
history
The theater building was built in 1873 according to plans by the builder Friedrich, who was also the owner of the house. The opening took place on October 11, 1874 under the name of the Carl Theater . In the following years, pranks , antics and operettas were mainly performed. The directors and the ensembles changed frequently.
In 1887 Max Staegemann leased the house and named it after the then Saxon Queen Carola-Theater . Under his direction, the house was only played on Sundays during the winter months and remained a pure vaudeville theater. In the years 1895 to 1898 he left the venue to the Leipzig Literary Society, which had dedicated itself to the maintenance of modern dramas and literature. In 1899, the city administration decided against Staegemann's will to cancel the lease for the Carola Theater.
Now Anton Hartmann took over the theater, who with his senior director Arthur Eggeling increasingly banned the shallow repertoire. In addition to Hartmann, the new ensemble also included Lothar Mehnert, Hans Marr , Ernst Bornstedt , Wilhelm Berthold, Bernhard Wildenhain , Hans Leibelt , Margarete Paschke, Julia Siegert, Emilie Winterberg and later Lina Carstens . Around 1900 the artistic staff consisted of seventeen women and twenty-three men.
Hartmann called the venue now the Leipziger Schauspielhaus and opened it on September 10, 1902 with an overture , a prologue and three stage works: Wallenstein's Camp , The Siblings and Busson's Glorious Heroes . The premiere evening was a complete success. In the first half of the winter alone, in addition to guest performances by Agnes Sorma, over sixteen stage works cast a spell over the audience, including:
- The probationer of Max Dreyer ,
- The honor , Midsummer bonfire and butterfly battle by Hermann Sudermann ,
- Lively hours and love affair by Arthur Schnitzler ,
- The glass of water by Eugène Scribe ,
- Youth of Max Halbe ,
- Nora by Henrik Ibsen ,
- The ancestor and Esther of Franz Grillparzer ,
- The new master of Ernst von Wildenbruch ,
- The miser and the learned women of Molière ,
- Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The local railway and the Medal of Ludwig Thoma .
Even under Hartmann's directorship, the Leipziger Schauspielhaus developed more and more into an avant-garde stage. After his death in 1912, the then dramaturge of the theater, Fritz Viehweg , took over the management. Now the Leipziger Schauspielhaus has finally become the home of young literature and a literary experimental stage: plays by Gerhart Hauptmann , Frank Wedekind , Max Dauthendey , Herbert Eulenberg , Lew Tolstoy and August Strindberg were performed in the first season.
Viehweg and his administrative director Wilhelm Berthold mastered the difficult years of World War I and the post-war period by founding the Leipzig theater community , "which ensured the continuation of the stage by issuing share certificates." Bernhard Wildenhain's were also important sources of income for the private theater every year staged summer tales and Christmas fairy tales, which always kept houses and coffers full.
After Viehweg's sudden death in 1929, Wilhelm Berthold took over the management of the theater alone, with the support of director Otto Werther. The seasons 1928/29 and 1929/30 were characterized by sensational productions and theater scandals such as the performances of Bruckner's Illness of Youth , Langer's Periphery or Lampel's Revolt in the Educational House . In 1929/30 the Moscow Chamber Theater performed under the direction of Alexander Jakowlewitsch Tairow and performed the controversial productions of Ostrowski's thunderstorm and O'Neill Gier under elms .
The first performance of the drama Ritter Nérestan , which was later filmed several times under the title Girls in Uniform , brought the breakthrough for the still unknown author Christa Winsloe , as well as for the young actress Hertha Thiele in the role of Manuela von Meinhardis.
The vocal group Comedian Harmonists experienced the breakthrough to their international career on this theater stage with their first full-length concert program Tempo Varieté in January 1930, after they had already performed there in 1929 in the performance of Mischa Spoliansky's revue Zwei Krawatten with Annemarie de Bruyn and Rudolf Schaffganz .
The performance of the Munich cabaret Die Nachrichtener was an event of a completely different kind : “When they announced themselves, a storm set in on the theater box office, the intellectual Leipzig was in Sophienstrasse these days. In the 1931/33 seasons, the magnificent Munich cabaret artists achieved sixteen sold-out houses with Here, Goethe errte alone, and with Der Esel ist Los 30. "
This stage, on which works by Walter Hasenclever , Georg Kaiser , Stefan Zweig , Leonhard Frank , Bertolt Brecht and Friedrich Wolf were performed until 1933 , was suspicious to the National Socialists from the start. Political influence on the repertoire had a devastating effect on the box office income of the private theater. The unexpected huge success of comedy crash in the rear building of Maximilian Böttcher the elimination of the house could not turn away. At the beginning of 1938 the board of directors and the supervisory board of the theater came to the conclusion that the house was no longer viable, and they arranged for it to be incorporated into the Association of Municipal Theaters. The farewell performance took place on May 15, 1938 with cabal and love . Raimund Schelcher played Ferdinand, Lore Hansen played Luise. The actor Reinhold Balqué spoke an epilogue written by Gustav Herrmann . - On December 4, 1943, incendiary and high explosive bombs destroyed the building.
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World premieres at the Leipziger Schauspielhaus (excerpt)
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literature
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z , Verlag Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005
- Bernhard Wildenhain: Being an actor ... , ed. by Friedrich and Käthe May, Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1958
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z , Leipzig 2005, p. 347.
- ↑ Tobias Leißner: The Leipziger and their Harmonists. To commemorate the start of a world career in Leipzig . Accessed August 31, 2020
- ↑ Bernhard Wildenhain: To be an actor ... , ed. by Ferdinand and Käthe May, Berlin 1958, pp. 138f
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 37 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 35 ″ E