Reichshallentheater

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Interior of the Reichshallentheater around 1900

The Reichshallentheater (also Reichshallentheater Stettiner Sänger ) was a theater building in Berlin , Leipziger Strasse  77, built in 1874 and used until the 1930s. Its richly decorated interior contained more than 1000 seats.

history

The theater was completed around 1874 in connection with the expansion of Leipziger Strasse and was designed by the architect Eduard Titz . It is already mentioned in a travel report from 1882.

It was located on Dönhoffplatz in Berlin-Mitte and served as a variety and spoken theater. On the ground floor there were 10 orchestra boxes on both sides, separated by a central aisle, 107 orchestra seats, followed by 290 parquet seats for the audience - also on both sides. The first tier had balcony boxes in the middle, each on the right and left with around 100 seats. To the side there were separate alien lodges (16 seats each) and proscenium lodges (7 seats each). The seats in the first tier were supported by square decorated columns. Since the Szczecin singers, founded in Szczecin in 1879, have performed regularly here since 1883 , the event building received this addition. Alexander Genée was named as directors in 1921 and Ferdinand Meysel in 1930. The energy was generated by means of a steam engine from G. Kuhn's Stuttgart machine and boiler factory .

Personalities of this theater

  • Leo Fall , violinist, was a member of the orchestra in this theater in the 1920s.
  • FW Hardt, singer
  • The Herrnfeld brothers , initially artists, later with their own theater
  • Walter Kollo , German operetta composer

Namesakes

In many German cities there were also Reichshallen theaters at the beginning of the 20th century, including:

Aachen im Raths-Keller , Dortmund (founded in 1895), Chemnitz , Erfurt (founded in 1895), Essen (founded in 1890), Görlitz ( Capitol ), Hamburg , Iserlohn , Karlsruhe , Kiel (Reichshallen-Theater Hagen & Sander), Cologne (founded 1887), Nuremberg , Stuttgart and Wiesbaden .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Titz, Eduard . In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein . However, the address of the Reichshallen-Theater with Chausseestrasse is given here.
  2. ↑ Journey to Berlin 1882 . diegeschichteberlins.de, accessed on April 6, 2010
  3. ↑ Inside views of the theater on a private homepage; Retrieved April 6, 2010
  4. ↑ Lukas Richter: The Berliner Gassenhauer: Presentation, documents, collection. Waxmann-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-8309-1350-4 , p. 101, books.google.de
  5. ^ Ownership of the machines produced: 1886 in the Reichshallen Theater
  6. ^ Karl Bosl: Life pictures for the history of the Bohemian countries . Volume 7. Collegium Carolinum, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, ISBN 3-486-47801-X , books.google.de
  7. ↑ a b inventory information in Schloss Wahn . ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) p. 87, accessed on April 6, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schloss-wahn.de
  8. ^ Marline Otte: Jewish identities in German popular entertainment, 1890-1933. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-85630-0 , p. 150, books.google.de
  9. ↑ Larger variety theaters and localities for holding concerts, exhibitions and so on . Retrieved April 6, 2010
  10. ↑ Thüringische Landeszeitung from September 25, 2004
  11. ↑ Saxony allekinos.com, accessed 6 April 2010
  12. ↑ Ulrich Liebe: Adored, persecuted, forgotten. Beltz-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-407-22168-1 , p. 230, books.google.de
  13. ^ Finding aid from the NRW archive; No. 53
  14. ↑ Rheinischer Kurier 1891/52 AA, February 21 (Stiftstrasse 16, today 18)