Atrium theater

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The Lichthof Theater ( spelling LICHTHOF Theater ) is a free theater in the Hamburg district of Bahrenfeld .

It sees itself as a production house, experiment room and venue for the independent performing arts. Artists from all disciplines develop and show productions that are close to current events. The theater cooperates with Hamburg as well as national groups and venues. According to its own understanding, it promotes broad artistic exchange and sets impulses in the local scene.

A special focus is on promoting the next generation. Graduates from Hamburg's training institutes find space and support in realizing their first projects outside of the training context. Young artists often take their first steps in independent theater there.

In addition, the vision of a “citizens' stage” at the Lichthof Theater has recently developed. The production "STAGING DEMOCRACY" in the 2017/18 season, which included more than 60 Hamburg citizens, was a first project in this direction and in the 2018/19 season the STADTTHEATER project is to open up the stage space and bring together themes and people from the city Include broad-based theater project.

The Lichthof Theater offers its audience around 150 events per season, is managed by Matthias Schulze-Kraft and Sarah Theilacker and has a team of seven permanent employees, various freelance workers, volunteers and other supporters.

history

In 1994 Maryn Stucken founded today's atrium with a small group of enthusiastic and committed theater lovers under the name "theaterwerkstatt Lichthof". Public awareness and audiences grew rapidly. This development attracted more and more professional actors and directors.

Despite spatial and financial restrictions, different groups rehearsed and played for six years as part of the non-profit association in the Alte Dosenfabrik in Stresemannstrasse. However, the continuous growth and the progressive establishment of the "theaterwerkstatt Lichthof" as a performance and production facility for independent theater in Hamburg soon required an organizational restructuring and spatial reorientation.

With the move to Mendelssohnstrasse in September 2000, the organizational working conditions were also improved. The name change to "Lichthof Theater am Alten Gaswerk" stands for increasingly professionally produced productions and the establishment of a more effective organizational structure.

The theater hall with a size of 160 square meters offers space for up to 120 spectators and can be flexibly designed so that different stage and audience arrangements and thus also different staging concepts are possible. There is a small bar in the foyer. Another 100 square meter room is used for rehearsals, own workshops and is also rented out as a seminar room.

The premises are maintained by a non-profit association, the development and implementation of the productions is in the hands of a non-profit GmbH. There is also the Lichthof Foundation with legal capacity , which supports the artistic work financially.

Today the house, now only called "Lichthof Theater", presents itself as a venue for professional independent theater of all disciplines, as a production location for time-critical theater, as an experimental field for new theater aesthetics and as an open space for artistic debate on virulent social issues.

Awards

In addition, the following works at the atrium have been awarded the Rolf Mares Prize in recent years :

  • 2016: Clara Weyde for her staging of the death ship
  • 2014: Lani Tran Duc for their stage and costume design in visit
  • 2013: Carola Unser for her staging of The WONDERFUL Wizard of Oz
  • 2008: Nino Harati vili for her staging of agony
  • 2007: Gesine Lenz and Marcel Weinand for their spatial concept for the piece Woolworld

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lichthof Theater receives Barbara Kisseler Theater Prize 2018. Accessed on February 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Federal Theater Prize 2017. February 19, 2019, accessed on February 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ WORLD: Lichthof-Theater receives the Pegasus Prize . June 18, 2008 ( welt.de [accessed February 21, 2019]).

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '48.6 "  N , 9 ° 54'54.3"  E