Reutlingen Nature Theater
The Reutlingen Natural Theater is an open-air stage in Reutlingen operated by a theater association , where the Reutlingen Wasenwald Festival takes place every year. The open-air stage has been used since 1928.
history
prehistory
The creation of the Reutlinger Freilichtbühne goes back to the Reutlinger Arbeiter-Bildungs-Verein , founded in 1863 . A theatrical performance took place within this association for the first time in 1889, the one-act drama Dr. Kranich's consultation hour was played. Inspired by the examples of the workers' education associations in Augsburg and Munich, an application was made on August 3, 1912 to found the "Dramatic Club". He began his work with a membership of 42 people and appeared in public that same year with the play The landmark of Tübingen. In 1926, members of the Dramatic Club visited the newly created nature theater in Heidenheim an der Brenz and then decided to build a nature theater in Reutlingen as well. In 1927, with the participation of many volunteers in the Wasenwald, the implementation of the “Reutlinger Naturtheater” project began.
The first years
The Reutlinger Naturtheater opened on June 17, 1928 with the play The Maiden of Orléans by Friedrich Schiller , in which almost 200 people participated.
National Socialism and Wartime
When Hitler came to power in 1933 , the workers' education association was dissolved, the theater group was declared an independent association as Reutlinger Naturtheater eV and joined the Kampfbund for German culture . Theater performances continued up to and including 1941 ( Die Rabensteinerin by Ernst von Wildenbruch ), after which they were canceled due to the war. The entire theater complex was destroyed in the last days of the war and the association was banned.
Foundation and reconstruction
On August 8, 1946, the Naturtheater Reutlingen eV was re-established, which appeared again in public for the first time in 1947 with the play Anna Susanna. Until 1949, due to the lack of a theater facility of its own, they played in the garden of the Reutlingen Friedrich-List-Gymnasium, from 1949 the stage was rebuilt at the original location and a new auditorium with 1,200 seats was built and reopened in 1950 with the Schiller classic Wilhelm Tell. In 1953, Erich Kästner's Emil und die Detektiven took place for the first time in a children's theater performance on the Reutlingen open-air theater.
today
Since 1978 there have been two parallel productions every year, one for children and one for adults. Due to the extended special program on the open-air stage with guest performances, concerts or other cultural events, the summer season has been known as the “Wasenwald Festival” since 2004. Thanks to the collaboration with professionals in the fields of directing, musical direction, costume and stage design, the Reutlingen Nature Theater has increasingly developed into a semi-professional amateur theater in recent years .
In addition to the two productions for children and adults, a third in-house production has been taking place since 2006, the midnight special, which is initially performed on one day in August, and since 2015 starting two days later, after the adult theater. The midnight specials come from the idea of Sascha Diener, who is also responsible for the direction.
In 2008 the new auditorium was inaugurated and in the same year was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Timber Construction Prize for exemplary construction in the Reutlingen district and in 2009 . The Reutlingen Nature Theater has since offered space for 1,003 spectators. Sponsorships were sold for more than 350 of these places to finance the new building. The theater in Reutlingen also includes a large costume rental and the club's own restaurant "Waldesslust" (formerly: Waldheim), in which, since 1997, plays by members of the Reutlingen Nature Theater ensemble have also been performed in autumn.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle - Prehistory 1863 to 1926 In: naturtheater-reutlingen.de , accessed on September 10, 2019.
- ↑ a b Chronicle - Freilichbühne until the end of the war 1928 to 1945 In: naturtheater-reutlingen.de , accessed on September 10, 2019.
- ↑ Chronicle - two decades after the war, 1946 to 1968 In: naturtheater-reutlingen.de , accessed on September 10, 2019.
- ↑ Theater seat sponsorship campaign. Naturtheater Reutlingen, accessed on July 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Thomas de Marco: The "Waldesslust" in the Reutlinger Wasenwald closes at the end of the year. In: tagblatt.de. October 17, 2017, accessed September 10, 2019 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 13 ″ N , 9 ° 11 ′ 15 ″ E