Schaubühne Lindenfels

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The Schaubühne Lindenfels (2009)

The Schaubühne Lindenfels is an interdisciplinary cultural institution in the west of Leipzig . It consists of the historic ballroom , take place in the theater, concerts and other events, the Green Room upstairs, which mainly as cinema is used and a restaurant in the foyer area.

The Schaubühne Lindenfels has been operating as a non-profit stock corporation (gAG) since 2005, making it the first theater in Germany to be operated as a non-profit stock corporation. Originally, the Schaubühne Lindenfels brand hid three independent carriers for the theater, cinema and gastronomy. The Schaubühne Lindenfels gAG has been responsible for the cinema and theater operations since 2015. The restaurant in the foyer of the house is leased to a restaurateur.

History of the building

In 1874, the Leipzig bricklayer Carl Schmidt built an inn on Leipziger Strasse (since 1893 Karl-Heine-Strasse) at the corner of Hermannstrasse (since 1907 Hähnelstrasse). In 1876, Schmidt acquired the neighboring property and within three months built a social hall for dance and other events at his restaurant. The building, unadorned from the outside, contained a magnificent ballroom with a gallery supported by ornate columns and an orchestra shell. There was a bowling alley in the much smaller basement. A little later, Schmidt built his own house on the property on the other side (Hermannstrasse 29), but this brought him into financial difficulties. In 1880, Credit- und Sparbank became the owner of all the properties.

In 1881 Alexander Heyer became the new owner. He planned to set up a concert garden on the next adjacent property (Hermannstrasse 27) , but this did not materialize because Heyer sold to Theodor Wezel in 1890. This built in 1892 behind an enclosure of bricks finally a concert garden plant with arcades in colonial style. He also had the social hall renovated, which was then connected to the concert garden by a passage. On April 1, 1899, Wezel sold all properties to Johann Max Nohke.

Nohke commissioned the Leipzig Wilhelminian-style architect Emil Franz Hänsel to significantly expand the social hall and also to add a two-story small hall on the site of the former concert garden in Hermannstraße (today's Lindenfels west wing ). This building, conceived as an independent event location, with its eight-meter-high domed canopy, could be connected to the hall of the old social hall by means of manually operated gearwheel shafts movable blind walls. Parts of this construction still exist today. On September 23, 1900, the ballroom complex of the Society Hall in Lindenau opened at Karl-Heine-Strasse 50. The new Society Hall was decorated with a Wilhelminian style, Art Nouveau-inspired front side with a terrace and outside staircase . There was no kitchen in the new house, the meals were brought from the kitchen in the corner house across the courtyard.

Large ballroom of Lindenfels Castle , today the ballroom of the Schaubühne Lindenfels (around 1905)

Nohke, too, had taken on the renovation. The property with three restaurants was foreclosed on July 2, 1904 to Otto Besser, partner in the Zwenkau steam brewery. He renamed the establishment Lindenfels Castle and held there every Friday and Sunday “Concert and Ball”, and from 1906 also a cinema. The cinema screenings failed, however, so that Bessers tenant, Carl Cramer, offered "Public Theatrical Events" in 1907. In 1913 the Leipzig cinema owner Joseph Fey leased the hall and began operating again on February 13, 1913. In 1922 Otto Morgenstern bought the land. He presented the Lindenfels u. a. of the Mormon church for meetings are available. Arthur Stoppe, tenant of Schloss Lindenfels since 1931, showed films here until 1945.

In 1939 the property was divided. Morgenstern's widow Martha sold the small hall to Willi Ludwig Karl Hücking, who leased it to the nearby Frölich stove pipe and sheet metal factory. In 1943, in the course of a major order (constant provision of 40 tons of stove pipes for use in the event of air damage), the Frölich company received approval for the installation of a false ceiling in the small hall. The final conversion to a factory took place. Frölich continued to run his company in the GDR and built a freight elevator in 1957 without a permit. The factory produced at least until 1975. After that, today's Lindenfels west wing stood empty for about 20 years, but the rooms and details of the unique Art Nouveau building were preserved for the duration of the various uses.

The cinema in Karl-Heine-Straße became a state-owned company in 1949 and was called the Lindenfels cinema . It was renovated in 1956 and was in operation until a boiler accident in the winter of 1987. Then the heating system was shut down and the cinema closed.

present

Logo of the Schaubühne Lindenfels
Old logo (until 2011)

Actors from Theaterhaus Jena discovered the fallow building in 1993 and decided to found their own theater. After the first renovation work, it was opened on September 15, 1994 with the premiere of the play The Golem and the screening of the film Last Year in Marienbad .

This was followed by dance and theater productions by the founders Anka Baier and René Reinhardt as well as by directors such as Sebastian Hartmann , Jan Jochymski, Tom Ryser, Nils Torpus and Andreas Sigrist, who also curated the first series of performances in Leipzig : “Weisse Nights”. Directors like Volker Schlöndorff presented their films. Nina Hagen , Ulla Meinecke , Funny van Dannen or the Fehlfarben gave concerts, Wiglaf Droste read regularly at Lindenfels and Wladimir Kaminer invited to the Russian disco .

In addition to the theater, film art was another pillar of the Schaubühne's program from the start. In addition to the cinema in the “Green Salon”, the cinema bar “Prager Frühling” was opened in January 1997 in the Connewitz district with the film The Unbearable Lightness of Being . After the Schaubühne realigned its business, the two film venues were sold. In 2006, Michael Ludwig & Christoph Ruckhäberle GbR took over responsibility for cinema / film art, music and literature events in the parent company. In 2008, the “Prager Frühling” theater went to Miriam Pfeiffer (* 1973), daughter of the theater director Hermann Schein , who has been in charge of the cinema since it opened as an economically independent cinema . In June 2009, after long negotiations with the Schaubühne, Michael Ludwig & Christoph Ruckhäberle GbR ceased commercial cinema operations at this location because it was no longer cost-covering. As a result, a non-commercially organized cinema with a significantly reduced program was created, organized by Schaubühne Lindenfels gAG itself.

The Schaubühne Lindenfels is dependent on funding. Since these do not flow in sufficient quantities, the house has faced ruin several times. In 2002, EnBW saved the cultural business from closure through a sponsorship offer. After the landlord filed for bankruptcy, the lease that had been in place until 2005 lapsed and there was a possibility that the house would be foreclosed. In order to secure the location in the long term, it was appropriate for the operator to acquire the property. After talks with possible partners, the brewery and the city of Leipzig agreed to provide the necessary money. The association for international theater explorations acquired the house in need of renovation. To refinance the purchase price, the previous sponsoring association was converted into the Schaubühne Lindenfels non-profit public limited company, which is the owner of the property. With the entry in the commercial register in August 2005, the conversion was legally completed. The shareholders are not lured with the prospect of dividends, they receive art shares for their commitment to culture , previously designed by Thomas Moecker, Verena Landau , Christoph Ruckhäberle , Frank-Heinrich Müller and Thadeusz Tischbein.

In 2003 the internationally renowned puppet theater Wilde & Vogel set up a production and performance facility in the Lindenfels west wing. Art exhibitions are also held there in loose succession.

As a commercial tenant, Nora Roman GmbH & Co. KG also participated in the variety of programs at the Schaubühne. She was responsible for gastronomy, music and literature events. With the opening of insolvency proceedings , the company was dissolved in the summer of 2011, and the café and restaurant, named after Nora Roman, a world traveler, feminist and muse of numerous artists, was then operated by Schaubühne Lindenfels gAG itself until 2015. From 2015 to 2017 the Schaubühne Lindenfels Betriebs-GmbH managed the catering in the foyer area. Caracan GmbH has been running a tapas bar with a Spanish-Mediterranean-inspired menu since the end of 2017.

In August 2015 the house remained closed due to extensive renovation measures. The construction work included the repair of the basement area with storage rooms, the floor renewal in the kitchen, the installation of a sanitary area in the artist's dressing room, the renewal of the flooring at the entrance and terrace, the renewal of the roof drainage, the securing and restoration of the roof structures and the redesign of the foyer and Catering area. In 2016 the parquet in the ballroom was renewed, the connecting gallery in the ballroom was restored and a side entrance with a loading ramp to the ballroom was built. In addition, a 17 kW photovoltaic system was installed on the flat roof, which makes a significant contribution to the energy supply of the Schaubühne Lindenfels.

Awards

literature

  • Rainer Bodey et al .: Lindenfels. From the social hall to the Schaubühne. Lindenauer history (s), H. 1. Lindenauer district association e. V., Leipzig 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Theater • Cinema • Festival House ǀ Schaubühne Lindenfels. Retrieved February 26, 2018 .
  2. Steffen Georgi: Passion of a movie-obsessed. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , January 17, 2012, p. 11.
  3. Stefan Kanis: The real life. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , January 19, 2010, p. 11.
  4. ^ Petra Mattheis: Conversation with René Reinhardt. Wunderwesten.de, April 24, 2015, accessed on March 5, 2019.
  5. ^ Schaubühne Lindenfels: Art shares.
  6. “By decision of the Leipzig District Court of June 15, 2011, AZ: 404 IN 813/11, the insolvency proceedings have been opened against the company's assets. The company has been dissolved. ” See company register, Leipzig Register Court, HRA 13925, entry from July 4, 2011, published on July 7, 2011.
  7. Schaubühne Lindenfels: Nora Roman ( Memento from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  8. Schaubühne Lindenfels: From building plans and securities ( Memento from August 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  9. Initiative award for art and culture . Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. Retrieved December 5, 2019.

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 '54.4 "  N , 12 ° 20' 4.5"  E