Schauburg (Hanover)

Schauburg
location
Address:	Hildesheimer Strasse
City:	Hanover
Coordinates:	52 ° 21 '56 "  N , 9 ° 44' 48"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '56 "  N , 9 ° 44' 48"  E
Architecture and history
Opened:	May 15, 1911
Destroyed by air raid on October 9, 1943.

The Schauburg in Hanover , which opened in 1911, was considered one of the most beautiful theaters in Germany in the 1930s and was committed to classical drama . Actors like Theo Lingen and the Neutze brothers made their debut here . The location of the building, built in 1911 and destroyed in the Second World War , was the Südstadt district , on the east side of Hildesheimer Strasse opposite Akazienstrasse , between "Adelheidstrasse" and "Schlägerstrasse / Lutherstrasse".

history

After the adventurer, painter, architect and actor Franz Bubenzer wrote “a memorandum on the theater situation in Hanover” from Berlin in 1908 , he designed the Schauburg as a private theater building in Hanover together with the architects Wilhelm Leyn and Rudolf Goedecke . On May 15, 1911, Bubenzer opened the theater with the first part of Goethe's Faust and then worked there as both director and director. Operettas were occasionally performed under the direction of Felix Meinhardt .

After the First World War , the Schauburg made its stage available to the Kestner Society between December 1919 and April 1920 "for some courageous theater experiments". At the beginning of the German hyperinflation , the student Theo Lingen, who was coming from the Goethe Gymnasium , made his debut at the Schauburg without any stage training in 1921 , but then took acting lessons from Friedrich Holthaus and initially played in expressionist dramas in particular .

In contrast, the three brothers Günther , Hans Lothar and Horst Michael Neutze came to their professions as students at the Luther School in Hanover , initially only as extras in the Schauburg .

Due to the Schauburg, the number of performances in Hanover climbed from 170 in the 1922/23 program to 375 in the 1923/24.

After Willy Grunwald , who was hostile to Bubenzer, had successfully applied for the management of the municipal theaters in 1921 , he also became director of the Schauburg in 1923/24. The city of Hanover had already leased the building in March 1923, only to purchase it in 1925 and rename it the “Städtisches Schauspielhaus” in the following year. Directors were Rolf Rönnecke (until 1927), Georg Altmann (until 1933) and Alfons Pape (until 1943). Under Pape, Claus Harms worked in smaller roles and as a dramaturge .

The building was destroyed in the Second World War in the heavy air raid on Hanover on the night of October 9, 1943. As a result, the "Schauspiel" moved to the Ballhof , where, under director Heinrich Koch, operations continued until all German theaters were closed on September 1, 1944.

literature

• MF Gerhäuser: The planning of theaters and their development in Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 23 (1969), pp. 84–144
• Franz Rudolf Zankl : Auditorium of the Schauburg. Photography around 1913. In: Hanover Archive , sheet K 24
• R. Lange: A short walk through Hanover's theater history ( prinzenstraße , issue 2), 1994, passim
• Friedrich Lindau : Schauburg In: Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural historical identity , with a foreword by Paulhans Peters, Schlütersche , Hannover 2001 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , p. 259 and so on, online via Google books , under others with an interior view and sketched plans
• Hugo Thielen : Theater. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 620f.

Web links

Commons : Schauburg (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Schauburg Hannover on Europeana .eu
• Schauburg Hanover in the photo archive Photo Marburg
• Schauburg as postcard number "1360" by Friedrich Astholz junior on Zeno.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Hugo Thielen: Theater (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Sandy Apelt: Theo Lingen. Tabular curriculum vitae in the LeMO ( DHM and HdG )
3. ↑ ^{a b} N.N. : "Gentleman" and 96 fan . In: You never know - About people and their graves in Hanover's cemeteries , information brochure of the City of Hanover, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, September 2008
4. ↑ Dieter Brosius : 1911 , in: Hannover Chronik , p. 148
5. ↑ Hugo Thielen: Bubenzer (also: Rolan or Rolan-Bubenzer), Franz. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 75f. (online via Google Books )
6. ↑ ^{a b} Klaus Mlynek : Schauburg , in: Geschichte der Stadt Hannover , Volume 2, From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , with contributions by Dieter Brosius, Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hannover: Schlütersche, 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , pp. 469f., 571
7. ^ Hugo Thielen: Lingen, Theo. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 411
8. ^ Hugo Thielen: Grunwald, Willy (Wilhelm). In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 139, online
9. ^ Hugo Thielen: Harms, Claus. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , pp. 150f., Online