Lindenfels west wing
The Lindenfels Westflügel is an international production center for puppet theater in the Leipziger Hähnelstraße 27. The Lindenfels Westflügel e. V. is the owner of the building. In addition to maintaining and renovating the property, the goal of the initiative is to create an internationally oriented event location in the west wing. Since 2006, theater performances, concerts, exhibitions and performances have been held in the building, which was once built as a ballroom. The focus is on international puppet theater. The house acts as a venue and production center, offers workshops and also works on the encounter between theory and practice. The bar froelich & herrlich has been on the ground floor since 2012, named after the old stove pipe factory, which is open every Friday and around the events. Run by voluntary helpers and enriched by the cultural program of artist friends, the income goes directly to the work of the west wing.
Artistic work
The Lindenfels West Wing is a play and production location for international puppet theater. An art form that relies on the sovereign actor and at the center of which is the animation of inanimate material. The interfaces to related arts are diverse: music, dance, visual arts and audiovisual media as well as language, literature and drama. A common focus is on the communication between the stage and the audience, peculiar to this art form, based on open play, complicity and imagination.
An ensemble in the sense of permanently employed artists does not exist in the Lindenfels west wing. Rather, numerous artists from different countries combine around the puppet theater Wilde & Vogel, which works at the house, to form a network of actors, puppeteers, visual artists and musicians. There are luminaries such as Agnes Limbos, Christoph Bochdansky , Neville Tranter , Eric Bass, Gyula Molnàr , Frank Soehnle, the Ensemble Materialtheater, Dimitri , Miriam Goldschmidt and young, aspiring players such as Stefan Wenzel, Samira Lehmann, Polina Borisova, Annelies van Hullebusch , Élise Vigneron and many more together.
So far, nine productions have been made on the Lindenfels West Wing, which have since been awarded various prizes and have been guests on international stages. A selection of the most successful productions:
- 2006: "Spleen - Charles Baudelaire: Poems in Prose" Wilde & Vogel, directed by Hendrik Mannes
- 2010: "Krabat" Wilde & Vogel, Grupa Coincidentia, Florian Feisel / Director: Christiane Zanger
- 2011: “Songs for Alice” Wilde & Vogel / Director: Hendrik Mannes
- 2012: “Der Freischütz” Lehmann & Wenzel / Director: Michael Vogel
The programming of the Lindenfels Westflügel places great value on the disclosure of artistic work processes. In workshops, new productions, rehearsals or installations and exhibitions, creativity and artistic development are made possible.
The graphic design is supervised by Robert Voss, a graphic artist from Halle an der Saale, who not only designs posters, program books and flyers but also the stamps for the hand-stamped tickets.
The Lindenfels West Wing has received institutional funding from the City of Leipzig since 2011.
History of the house
The current west wing was built in 1900 on behalf of Johann Max Nohke as an extension ("Kleiner Saal") of the catering business "Gesellschafthalle zu Lindenau" - today's Schaubühne Lindenfels - on the site of the former "Concert Garden" built by Theodor Wezel . The hall was designed together with the renovation of the old society building as the first major commission from the Leipzig architect Emil Franz Hänsel . After the property was divided up in 1939, the small hall was sold to Willi Ludwig Karl Hücking, who leased it to the Frölich stovepipe factory, which carried out various fixtures and repurposed the building as a production and storage building. In 2003 an initiative started around the puppet theater Wilde & Vogel in cooperation with the Schaubühne Lindenfels Leipzig, with the aim of returning the building, which had been empty for 20 years, to a cultural use. By removing all fixtures, the building could almost be returned to its original state. The west wing has two halls with an area of 190 m² each. The lower hall is 4.60 meters high, the upper one, which was formerly used as a dance hall, is 8.20 meters. The historic entrance has been restored, the Art Nouveau vestibule leads to the foyer and an Art Nouveau staircase with a vaulted ceiling. A two-wing iron gate, which comes from a former brewery, closes the vestibule from the street.
The so-called Ballhaus Nights (October 2003, May and October 2004) and the Ballhaus Prologues (April, May, September 2005) took place. In 2005 the property was bought by the newly founded non-profit association Lindenfels Westflügel e. V. acquired. From May to October 2006 and 2007, the first two summer programs with international puppet theater and dance theater as well as exhibitions and concerts took place. Since then, the program has attracted many internationally successful artists and ensembles. In 2013 the Lindenfels west wing celebrated its 10th anniversary.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 55 ″ N , 12 ° 20 ′ 3 ″ E