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The New Flora in Hamburg
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2010 with the musical Tarzan

The Neue Flora (Stage Theater Neue Flora) in Hamburg , built from 1988 to 1990 according to plans by the architects Uwe Köhnholdt and Konstantin Kleffel, is one of the largest theaters in Germany with 1965 seats (1415 in the stalls, 550 in the tier). The auditorium has an area of ​​1530 m², the stage 240 m². The stage portal is 14 meters wide and 8.5 meters high.

The dispute over the construction

After since April 1986 in the estate of the City available Operettenhaus on the Reeperbahn with great success the musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber was played, the city agreed with the producers, their addition for The Phantom of the Opera the ailing Flora Theater in Schanzenviertel on To leave shoulder blade 71, which has only been used as a department store for decades. Militant resistance formed against this. Eventually, in 1989, the building was occupied by autonomists and named it Rote Flora .

Previously, on September 13, 1988, it was announced that the location on the corner of Stresemannstrasse and Alsenstrasse in Altona-Nord was considered more suitable because of the opposite S-Bahn station Holstenstrasse and the local "indifference to the construction project". In fact, the construction was also highly controversial here: residents sued unsuccessfully through two instances against the building permit and the Altona district assembly demanded measures to protect the adjacent residential areas from the additional traffic. "Weekend walks" took place regularly around the fortress-like secured building site. At the premiere on June 29, 1990, more than 3500 police officers stood ready to protect the guests from 1000 demonstrators, some of whom were violent . The cars of the theatergoers driving up were nevertheless demolished and smeared and those who came on foot were pelted with paint, rotten fruit and eggs or assaulted in some other way. For the premiere party, Stella AG invited to a secret location, the Altona fish auction hall .

After the bankruptcy of Stella AG in 2002, Stage Entertainment (formerly Stage Holding ) took over the company and initiated extensive renovations in all areas.

Performances

The musical The Phantom of the Opera with Peter Hofmann and Anna Maria Kaufmann in the leading roles was performed for the first time in Hamburg on June 29, 1990 (preview on June 19, 1990) in the “Neue Flora” . By June 30, 2001, more than 4,400 performances followed with a total of seven million viewers. From September 21, 2001 to June 30, 2002 the musical Mozart was a guest ! (by Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay ) with Yngve Gasoy Romdal in the title role in “Neue Flora” (320 performances). The musical Tarzan was performed more than 2000 times in Hamburg.

Musicals in the Theater Neue Flora Hamburg
Beginning The End musical genre organizer Remarks
June 29, 1990 June 30, 2001 The Phantom of the Opera musical Stella Entertainment German premiere
September 21, 2001 June 30, 2002 Mozart!
December 7, 2002 October 5, 2003 Titanic - The Musical Stage entertainment
December 7, 2003 January 22, 2006 dance of the Vampires
March 16, 2006 June 29, 2008 Dirty Dancing show European premiere
October 19, 2008 2nd October 2013 Tarzan musical German premiere
November 28, 2013 September 30, 2015 The Phantom of the Opera Resumption
December 6, 2015 3rd February 2019 Disney's Aladdin European premiere
April 14, 2019 March 12, 2020 Cirque Du Soleil Paramour

Web links

Commons : New Flora  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Cheerful and exhausting". In Der Spiegel 23/90 of June 4, 1990, pp. 240-243 online version
  2. ↑ a b http://www.stage-entertainment.de/musicals-shows/disneys-aladdin-hamburg.html
  3. ↑ The musical Disney's Aladdin is an adaptation of the Disney film Aladdin .

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 45 ″  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 1 ″  E