Puhlmann Theater

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Puhlmann's Vaudeville Theater, picture postcard, around 1900

The Puhlmann Theater was an event location at Schönhauser Allee 148 in Berlin , where a variety theater , theater and later a cinema were operated under changing names between around 1869 and 1960 . Over the years, the company was known as the Vaudeville Theater , Puhlmann's Vaudeville and Froebel's Allerlei Theater . Later it was operated under the names Filmpalast Puhlmann , Berliner Neues Operettentheater and Puhlmann-Theater-Lichtspiele-Varieté . The building, which had been rebuilt several times, was demolished in 1963.

history

Newspaper advertisement (1854)
Tackle Theater Bill (1950s)

Probably in 1840 a garden restaurant was opened on a 3,000 m² garden plot between Schönhauser Allee and Kastanienallee , which was taken over by restaurateur Carl Puhlmann in 1851 ( Puhlmann's restaurant , Puhlmannscher Garten ). There were already music and variety events here in the summer. After the new freedom of theater introduced in the German Confederation in 1869 , Puhlmann founded his own vaudeville theater in his restaurant , which later also traded as Puhlmann's Vaudeville . The stage was initially used primarily as a summer theater . The garden held about 2,500–3,000 people. Later there were year-round performances in the restoration building, which later could accommodate up to 900 people after renovations. The building and land remained in the family's possession with a brief interruption during the Third Reich .

Puhlmann's was a popular theater where vaudeville programs, comedies and operettas were performed. The theater was leased to changing operators who acted as directors and concession holders (“theater owners”), but only a few of them played a major role in the Berlin theater landscape. One of the better-known is August Kentsch , who had been Kapellmeister at the theater since 1871. Between 1885 and 1892 he is also named as director. The actor and singer August Reiff (1845–1905) was director of the stage several times between 1878 and 1894. Reiff was an avid theater and ensemble founder ( American theater , " The Green Nine " ), but eventually lost his fortune and had to work as an actor again after 1896. From 1905 the popular humorist Wilhelm Fröbel (1857–1907) ran the house together with his wife Franziska Fröbel as Fröbels Allerlei Theater , which staged numerous Jewish plays.

As early as October 1897, Max Skladanowsky had shot a New Year's greeting at Puhlmann's . Later there were occasional screenings with a hand-operated lime-light cinématograph . Between 1909 and 1928 there were several renovations, initially with two permanent theaters in the restoration building. In 1919 the so-called Puhlmann cinema opened with around 700 seats after appropriate installations ( Lichtspiel Palast Theater , Puhlmanns Filmpalast ). In 1925 the facade was given an "oriental" design.

In 1933 an early concentration camp was temporarily set up next to the projection room of the cinema in the SA restaurant “Puhlmann-Keller” . The Puhlmann family was apparently expropriated for racial reasons, because after the end of the Second World War , Ms. Puhlmann got the company back as persecuted by the Nazi regime .

The theater reopened in May 1945. In the theater, which was briefly called the New Operetta Theater in Berlin, variety events, performances by ensembles without their own house and guest performances took place under the direction of Margarethe Werner at least until the 1950s. Even sporting events such as amateur wrestling matches were organized. But films have already been shown again. In May 1960, the city ​​closed the Puhlmann Theater, despite protests from the population, on the grounds that the owner had “failed to meet her obligations towards the state”. The considerations for the purpose of the theater ranged from the establishment of a studio for GDR television to the proposal to set up a storage room for upholstered goods. Instead, the building was demolished in 1963 because it was supposed to be in disrepair. A parking lot was created in its place.

After reunification , the site was transferred to the portfolio of the Liegenschaftsfond Berlin and was shown as a new residential / commercial area. In 2010/11 there was a bidding process for the area now called Puhlmannscher Hof .

literature

  • Nic Leonhardt: Pictorial dramaturgy. Visual culture and theater in the 19th century (1869–1899). Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-596-3 .
  • Hartmut Seefeld: Coffee, cake, cinema. From the history of the Puhlmann Film Palace. In: Vor Ort , 17/12 (2008), p. 13. ( PDF , accessed on January 17, 2014)
  • Peter Sprengel: Scheunenviertel Theater. Jewish drama troops and Yiddish drama in Berlin (1900-1918). Fannei & Walz, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-7759-0411-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Almanach der Genossenschaft deutscher Bühnenangerbeiger 6 (1878), p. 216; Gerhard Wahnrau: Berlin, city of theaters. Vol. 1. Berlin (East) 1957, pp. 459f .; According to another source, the establishment was opened in 1824, see p. Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 26 (1915), p. 309.
  2. ↑ a b c d Hartmut Seefeld: Coffee, cake, cinema. From the history of the Puhlmann Film Palace. In: Vor Ort 17/12 (2008), p. 13.
  3. ^ A b Nic Leonhardt: Pictorial dramaturgy. Visual culture and theater in the 19th century (1869–1899). Bielefeld 2007, p. 333.
  4. ↑ a b Neuer Theater-Almanach 3 (1892), p. 193.
  5. ↑ a b Erich Hanke: In the stream of time. Berlin (East) 1980, p. 16.
  6. ^ Obituary in Neuer Theater-Almanach 17 (1906), p. 176; Ruth Freydank: Theater in Berlin. From the beginning until 1945. Berlin 1988, p. 490.
  7. ↑ Neuer Theater-Almanach 19 (1908), p. 138; Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog 12 (1909), Totenliste 1907, Sp. 27; Peter Sprengel: Scheunenviertel Theater. Jewish drama troops and Yiddish drama in Berlin (1900-1918). Berlin 1995, p. 67.
  8. ↑ Sylvaine Hänsel, Angelika Schmitt (ed.): Kinoarchitektur in Berlin 1895–1995. Berlin 1995, p. 136; Peter Sprengel: Scheunenviertel Theater. Jewish drama troops and Yiddish drama in Berlin (1900-1918). Berlin 1995, p. 69.
  9. ↑ Oliver Reschke: The struggle for power in a Berlin workers' district. National Socialists in Prenzlauer Berg 1925-1933. Berlin 2008, p. 307.
  10. ↑ Hermann Simon: “All the best to you and the community.” The poet Arnold Zweig - a prominent member of the (East) Berlin Jewish community. In: Mark H. Gelber et.al. (Ed.): Integration and exclusion. Studies on German-Jewish literary and cultural history from the early modern period to the present. Tübingen 2009, pp. 351–366, here p. 356.
  11. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 57 (1949), p. 124; Otto Schneidereit: Berlin, how it cries and laughs. Berlin (East) 1976, p. 321.
  12. ↑ And again amateur wrestling matches. In: Neues Deutschland v. August 21, 1949, p. 6; HUE: The indelible brand. In: Daily Rundschau v. June 21, 1949.
  13. ↑ New ideas for an old theater. In: Neues Deutschland v. Aug. 26, 1960, p. 7; Klaus Grosinski: Prenzlauer Berg. A chronicle. Berlin 2008, p. 188.
  14. ↑ Between the top and the Königstor. In: Neues Deutschland v. March 14, 1963, p. 8.
  15. ↑ Exposé ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Liegenschaftsfonds Berlin [2010] (PDF, accessed on January 23, 2014). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.liegenschaftsfonds.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 21.8 "  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 41.7"  E