Renaissance Theater (Berlin)
The Renaissance theater at Knesebeckstrasse 100 / the corner of Hardenbergstrasse in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg ( Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district ) is the only completely preserved Art Deco theater in Europe. It is a listed building . The architect was Oskar Kaufmann . From the outside, the semicircular, two-storey porch with five slender, arched windows extending over both storeys, whose blue glazing was designed by Hella Santarossa , is striking . Inside, the expressionist variety of forms and the inlays created by César Klein , which show scenes from the Commedia dell'arte ( Italian for 'professional acting') in the balcony area, are impressive .
The duck fountain, built by August Gaul in 1911, stands in front of the Renaissance theater .
Artistic profile
Since the mid-1990s, the program concept of the Renaissance theater has been dedicated to international contemporary drama. The visitors to the house, which Joachim Werner Preuss - one of the most profound experts on the Berlin theater scene - called the “most demanding private stage in Germany”, can expect a program that is on the one hand time-critical about current social developments and on the other hand is emotionally touching and encourages discussion.
In addition to the main productions, readings and events such as the literary forays , in which biographies and new publications are presented, and musical-literary programs in the Bruckner foyer are on the program.
The productions of the Renaissance theater attract a lot of attention from the audience and the media. The house owes its supraregional attention to its extensive guest performance in the entire German-speaking area and its partnerships with private and city theaters in the form of co-productions and the exchange of guest performances.
Internationally award-winning authors, whose works conquer the stages of the world from New York , London , Paris or Amsterdam , entrust the Renaissance theater with their works for the first performance in German. Here your pieces - played by prominent actors and led by a director who feels committed to the work - are given the appreciation they deserve as important dramatists.
history
On October 18, 1922, Theodor Tagger opened the Renaissance Theater with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Miss Sara Sampson . The building was built in 1902 by Konrad Reimer and Friedrich Körte as a corporation house for the academic association 'Motiv' founded in 1847 and had housed a cinema since 1919. Tagger remained director of the theater until July 1926, when the theater architect Oskar Kaufmann converted it, including the upper floor . The renovation was financed by the entrepreneur Jakob Michael . The reopening took place on January 8, 1927.
From 1927 to 1930 Gustav Hartung (1887–1946) was director of the Renaissance theater. In 1929 he staged Ferdinand Bruckner's Illness of Youth , without knowing that his predecessor Theodor Tagger was hiding behind this pseudonym . The theater was closed in 1933, in 1937 the Reichsschrifttumskammer moved into the rooms above the theater. On May 27, 1945, the Renaissance theater resumed theater operations despite war damage . In 1946 a simple repair was carried out by the architect von Lülsdorff, a restoration was only carried out in 1985 by Michael Lindenmeyer. The blue glazing from Hella Santarossa was also installed .
In 1946 Kurt Raeck took over the management of the Renaissance theater, in 1979 Horst Mesalla became director, two years later Heribert Sasse , subsequently Knut Boeser , and in 1986 Gerhard Klingenberg . Since the 1995/1996 season, Horst-H. Filohn director of the theater.
Many well-known actors played at the Renaissance Theater, for example Olga Chekhova , Helene Weigel , Tilla Durieux , Käte Jaenicke , Curt Goetz , O. E. Hasse , Erik S. Klein , Hubert von Meyerinck , Ida Ehre and Helmut Käutner .
After the German Foundation for Monument Protection had contributed to the preservation of the Renaissance Theater in 2005, took place on 30 April 2006, a charity - Matinee Theater Renaissance to the conservation of the monument place in particular Vicco von Bulow occurred.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The art of sensual rigor. In: Monuments , April 2012
- ^ The Renaissance Theater and César Klein , accessed April 30, 2018
- ↑ Max Osborn: The "Renaissance Theater" Berlin. A work by the architect Oskar Kaufmann - Berlin . In: Interior Decoration , Vol. 38, 1927, pp. 298-310 ( digital copy ).
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 37.5 " N , 13 ° 19 ′ 24.3" E