Naturtheater Friedrichshagen

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Naturtheater Friedrichshagen

The Naturtheater Friedrichshagen is an open-air theater in the street Hinter dem Kurpark 13 in Berlin-Friedrichshagen .

history

founding

The theater was built in 1930 as the Städtisches Naturtheater Friedrichshagen , then at Kurz Strasse 1 and at Pentecost in 1931 with Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream . It offered 1,632 permanent seats, a spotlight tower, a baffle, cloakrooms for 150 participants and an orchestra pit in front of the stage. The first cinema screenings began in 1935, at that time in front of 400 spectators.

National Socialism and World War II

In 1936 Fritz Wendel was director of the theater, and during the winter season he was director of the theater on Schiffbauerdamm . As a result, operettas were also performed in addition to drama, such as Der Feldprediger , operetta in 3 acts by Carl Millöcker , in the summer of 1937. As a director and “ spiritus rector ”, Heinrich George built a new ensemble with whom he organized summer performances in open-air theater from 1936 onwards , and which he took over as director of the Schiller Theater from 1937 .

Here he again staged the Midsummer Night's Dream , which was also performed in the next season in 1938 and in which he played Oberon himself, as well as u. a. What you want and Schiller's Die Räuber . Even Walter Felsenstein was here his Berlin debut with The Gypsy Baron .

Performing members at the time included: Hans Adolfi , Erwin Biegel , Gaston Briese , Bernhard Goetzke , Hans Meyer-Hanno , Eduard Wenck , Irene Andor , Johanna Ewald , Erna Hartwig , Ernst Legal , Elisabeth Lennartz , Gretel Mischler , Charlotte Schaedrich , Hilde Schönborn , Valeska Stock .

The natural theater was not destroyed in the Second World War , but the condition deteriorated in the first years after the war.

Post-war until today

In 1946 a fire destroyed parts of the baffle and furnishings. The remaining wooden parts were used as heating material in the following winter. In 1948 the district office left the natural theater to "Friedrichshagener Stadion GmbH", which converted it into a tennis stadium.

Attempts to revive the stage, such as in 1951 at the World Festival or in the late 1970s and 1980s as a concert stage for GDR rock music, failed or were not pursued. In the 1980s, however, especially for the 750th anniversary of Berlin, the cultural presentations of work in schools, VEB and kindergartens, as well as music schools, were diverse. The stage was built under the leadership of Friedrichshagen private dealers - Möbel-Hasemann u. a. - renovated with great help from citizens. It was the starting point and destination of the parades to the popular Bölschefest in Friedrichshagener Bölschestrasse , which before 1990 had hardly any commercial character and which was intended to serve as a cultural representation of life in the residential area, businesses, schools, the police, the church and the sports clubs. There was a major interruption in the years following the loss of many businesses in the area. The efforts of the Kulturverein Pfeiffer e. V. enabled the theater to be reactivated. The stage was reopened on June 27, 1998, and the open-air cinema in July 1998.

In May 2006, the operators of the " Kino Union " in the nearby Bölschestrasse took over the open-air cinema . 60 covered seats in the back rows have made it possible to play games even when it rains. In 2007 the open- air stage was renamed from " natural theater " to " open air cinema ".

Web links

Commons : Naturtheater Friedrichshagen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German stage yearbook . Vol. 49-66. Berlin 1944, p. 145.
  2. ↑ September 3 (1935) in: Daily facts of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (at the DHM )
  3. ↑ Friedrichshagen municipal open-air theater. Program booklet 1937.
  4. ↑ Stage Yearbook 1938.
  5. ↑ Thomas Eicher, Barbara Panse, Henning Rischbieter: Theater in the "Third Reich" . Kallmeyer, Seelze-Velber 2000. ISBN 3-7800-0117-9
  6. ↑ Götz Friedrich: Walter Felsenstein - way and work. Henschel, Berlin 1961, p. 21.

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 34.4 "  N , 13 ° 37 ′ 25.8"  E