Ohnsorg Theater

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Logo of the Ohnsorg Theater in the Bieberhaus
Entrance to the Ohnsorg Theater with a statue of Heidi Kabel
Entrance of the old house

The Ohnsorg Theater in Hamburg , formerly Grosse Bleichen , since 2011 on Heidi-Kabel-Platz (north of the main train station ), is a theater that promotes recognition and knowledge of the Low German language (" Low German") through performances of plays in Low German promotes.

In addition to pieces that were originally written in Low German, Low German translations from High German and other languages ​​are also played.

history

Entrance area of ​​the old theater

The Ohnsorg Theater was founded in 1902 on the initiative of Richard Ohnsorg as a theater association under the name "Dramatic Society Hamburg". The association was renamed in 1906 in the "Society for Dramatic Art". In the first few years the association / society had no relation to the Low German language, that changed when Richard Ohnsorg took over the board and artistic direction of the association in 1910. The great success of the Low German plays prompted the association to form “Niederdeutsche Bühne Hamburg e. V. ”to be renamed. After having previously had to play on changing stages and in cramped conditions, the theater was able to move into the former small comedy theater in the Große Bleichen in 1936 . In 1946 the stage was named Richard-Ohnsorg-Theater . Today the Ohnsorg Theater is a GmbH , owned by Niederdeutsche Bühne Hamburg eV The theater is currently subsidized with around 1.6 million euros per season.

Performances by the Ohnsorg Theater have been broadcast on German television since 1954 . In order to be understood outside of the Low German-speaking area, however, no pure Low German is spoken in the television recordings, but a strongly North German-colored form of High German, called Missingsch . The first television broadcast took place live on March 13, 1954 with the play His Majesty Gustav Krause from the bunker of the NWDR at Heiligengeistfeld . Later the recordings took place directly in the theater. Many of them have now also appeared on video and DVD.

In particular through the television broadcasts in the 1960s and 1970s, the then ensemble, u. a. with Heidi Kabel , Henry Vahl , Otto Lüthje , Ernst Grabbe , Hilde Sicks , Werner Riepel , Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum , Heidi Mahler , Erna Raupach-Petersen , Edgar Bessen , Heinz Lanker , Jochen Schenck , Christa Wehling , Gisela Wessel or Jürgen Pooch , known nationwide and the actors also cast roles in movies and television games.

As early as 1924, Ohnsorg recognized the importance of the newly founded radio medium. At NORAG , for example, he met the radio editor Hans Böttcher , to whom Low German literature was as close to his heart as he was himself. From then on, the ensemble also appeared regularly in front of the radio microphones. The collaboration has continued to the present even after the founding of the NWDR Hamburg and later the NDR . In the vast majority of cases, the productions were dialect radio plays of the most varied of genres.

Only after the success of the Low German plays did the other ARD broadcasters also begin broadcasting Bavarian plays ( Komödienstadel ) and plays from the Millowitsch Theater (Cologne), which, however, were also condemned to German. Especially in the 1960s, numerous transmissions became real street sweepers . In a special broadcast on the ARD television lottery , Heidi Kabel and Willy Millowitsch appeared together in the play Die Kartenlegerin in 1968 , with a brief guest role by the singer and actor Freddy Quinn .

After Richard Ohnsorg's death u. a. Hans Mahler , Günther Siegmund , Konrad Hansen and Christian Seeler were directors of the theater for a long time . From the 2017/18 season it will be Michael Lang.

In 1996, the NDR turned a family television series under the title The Ohnsorgs , in which the actors of the theater took part.

Move to the Bieberhaus

The Bieberhaus as the new venue for the Ohnsorg Theater

On Friday evening, July 8th, 2011, the last curtain fell in the Ohnsorg Theater after 75 years in the old venue. The ensemble said goodbye with the Comedy Brand Foundation . Then white handkerchiefs with the imprint Ohnsorg-Theater - Atschüß, old house! Last performance, July 8, 2011 distributed to the public.

On August 28, 2011, the traditional house opened at Heidi-Kabel-Platz 1 with a Low German version of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream . The director was the ex-director of the neighboring theater, Michael Bogdanov . The new venue in the Bieberhaus , which was built in 1909 and is now a listed building, is more modern and larger. It has the latest technology and an additional studio stage. The capacity has increased by approx. 50 seats compared to the old venue with 389 seats.

Ohnsorg Studio

For the 2012/2013 season, the studio stage with 100 seats was opened in September 2012 on the first floor of the new theater building. The first director was Cornelia Ehlers , until then a dramaturge at the Oldenburg State Theater . Every year three in-house productions for children and youth theater are brought out here; the pieces are performed in two languages ​​- Low and High German.

Honors

Well-known performances (excerpt)

  • Brand Foundation
  • Dat Spill üm en Schaap, en Koh and söss braad'te eggs
  • The mayor's chair
  • The Deern is right
  • You…!
  • Doctor Puust
  • De dolle Deern
  • A woman for the Klabautermann
  • The stage hare
  • Mrs. Pieper lives dangerously
  • Mrs. Sperling's rarity shop
  • For the cat
  • Innkeeper Goebel
  • A good game
  • The gray mouse
  • Good night, Mrs. Engel
  • Hamburger beer
  • The rulership
  • Happy in'n Kopp
  • The ear tube
  • Love on windward and lee side
  • The card reader
  • No living with the income
  • The Queen of Honolulu
  • The cuckoo's egg
  • Dear kin
  • The laurel wreath
  • Lotte plays the lottery
  • Manda Voss turns 106
  • A man is not a man
  • A man of character
  • Men are only human too
  • My honest day
  • My husband, he goes to sea
  • Master Anecker
  • Human must be human
  • The furnished gentleman
  • Mudder Mews
  • Mother is the best ( The window to the hallway by Curth Flatow and Horst Pillau )
  • Dat Narrenhuus ( La Cage aux Folles )
  • Uncle Vanya
  • Grandpa is being sold
  • Peter Pink
  • The pirate piece
  • Ralves Carstens
  • Around Cape Horn
  • Schneider Nörig
  • Tailor Wibbel
  • The most beautiful man from the Reeperbahn
  • Pig comedy
  • De Spaansche Fleeg ( The Spanish Fly )
  • Beach robbers
  • Gossip in the stairwell
  • The marriage certificate
  • Sweet home
  • ... and Engels live upstairs
  • Father Philipp
  • Hell of a time
  • The Weiberhof
  • When the rooster crows
  • Willem's legacy
  • Two angels
  • Two cases of rum

people

Directors

Richard Ohnsorg (1910–1945), Rudolf Beiswanger (1945–1949), Hans Mahler (1949–1970), Günther Siegmund (1970–1979), Konrad Hansen (1979–1985), Walter Ruppel (1985–1994), Thomas Bayer (1994–1995), Christian Seeler (1996–2017), Michael Lang (from 2017)

Low German authors in the repertoire

Heinrich Behnken , Hermann Boßdorf , Hans Bunje , Karl Bunje , Hartmut Cyriacks , Heinrich Deiters , Jens Exler , Jan Fabricius , Gorch Fock , Janne Furch , Konrad Hansen , August Hinrichs , Hans Henning Holm , Paul Jessen, Walter A. Kreye , Friedrich Lindemann , Albert Mähl , Peter Nissen , Jürgen Pooch (mainly as a Low German editor of High German materials), Alma Rogge , Paul Schurek , Hinrich Wriede , Fritz Wempner , Adolf Woderich , Wilfried Wroost

Well-known actors in the ensemble

Wiebke Allert , Käte Alving , Horst Arenthold , Tanja Bahmani, Magda Bäumken , Rudolf Beiswanger , Edgar Bessen , Manfred Bettinger , Joachim Bliese , Birgit Bockmann , Rolf Bohnsack , Ingrid von Bothmer , Walther Bullerdiek , Aline Bußmann , Uwe Dallmeier , Wilfried Dziallas , Robert Eder , Helga Feddersen , Willem Fricke , Uwe Friedrichsen , Jens-Werner Fritsch , Birthe Gerken, Markus Gillich, Ernst Grabbe , Klaus Granzow , Vera Gruber , Konstantin Graudus , Uwe Hacker , Detlef Heydorn , Ursula Hinrichs , Fritz Hollenbeck , Erkki Hopf , Till Huster , Hans Jensen , Heidi Kabel , Heini Kaufeld , Sandra Keck , Oskar Ketelhut , Beate Kiupel , Herma Koehn , Nils Owe Krack , Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum , Birte Kretschmer , Hans Langmaack , Heinz Lanker , Jürgen Lederer , Edda Loges , Günter Lüdke , Otto Lüthje , Heidi Mahler , Ulla Mahrt , Meike Meiners , Karl-Ulrich Meves , Ludwig Meybert , Hermann Möller (also right hand of Richard Ohnsorg), Rudolf Möller , Eri Neumann , Georg Pahl , Rolf Pe tersen , Jürgen Pooch , Gertrud Prey , Karl Otto Ragotzky , Ruth Rastedt , Erna Raupach-Petersen , Werner Riepel , Gerlind Rosenbusch , Jens Scheiblich , Jochen Schenck , Wolfgang Schenck , Rolf E. Schenker , Walter Scherau , Ilse Seemann , Hilde Sicks , Christa Siems , Hartwig Sievers , Uta Stammer , Axel Stosberg , Hanno Thurau , Hans Timmermann , Henry Vahl , Bruno Vahl-Berg , Jasper Vogt , Carl Voscherau , Christa Wehling , Gisela Wessel , Erwin Wirschaz

Honorary members

  • Heidi Kabel (2004)
  • Hilde Sicks
  • Helmuth Kern as honorary chairman of the Ohnsorg support association (2013)
  • Christian Seeler (2017)
  • Heidi Mahler (2019)

Other people belonging to the theater

literature

  • Gerd Spiekermann : 100 years of the Ohnsorg Theater. Verlag Die Hanse, Hamburg, ISBN 3-434-52600-5 (book with CD).
  • Walter Ruppel: Almanach 1986 to 1994. Ohnsorg Theater. Peschke Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-930414-01-5 .
  • Jürgen Köhlert and Jutta Duhn-Heitzmann : The Ohnsorg Theater. Chronicle of a happy house. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-373-7 .
  • Ulf-Thomas Lesle : The Low German Theater. From “völkischer Not” to literary comfort . Christians, Hamburg 1986.
  • Walter Deppisch : 75 years of the Ohnsorg Theater. Ohnsorg Theater, Hamburg 1977.
  • Paul Jessen: Dat Spill um en Schaap, en Koh un söss braad'te eggs. Theater publisher and stage sales Karl Mahnke, Verden oA

Web links

Commons : Ohnsorg-Theater  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Ohnsorg Theater conquers television , NDR.de, Hans-Ulrich Wagner
  2. ↑ The Ohnsorg Stars in Portrait , NDR.de

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '17 "  N , 10 ° 0' 26.4"  E