St. Pauli Theater

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St. Pauli Theater on Spielbudenplatz
The logo of the theater
Poster of the former Ernst Drucker Theater 1896
Former neon sign of the St. Pauli Theater

The St. Pauli Theater is a theater founded in 1841 in the Hamburg district of St. Pauli .

The theater is located on Spielbudenplatz (on the Reeperbahn ) next to the Davidwache and is the oldest private theater in Hamburg and one of the oldest in Germany. The theater building with auditorium, which received a more richly designed front facade around 1898, was also built in 1840/1841 and is a listed building .

history

The theater was opened on May 30, 1841 as the "Urania Theater" and, after financial difficulties, was continued in 1844 by a stock corporation as the "Actien Theater". In 1863, Carl J. B. Wagner bought the theater and called it the Varieté-Theater from then on . In 1884 Ernst Drucker took over the theater ( Ernst Drucker Theater ) and successfully played Hamburg folk plays. The policeman from the neighboring Davidwache, Julius Schölermann, wrote the play “Family Eggers or a Hamburg Fish Woman ” (1886), in which the popular character Thetje appears with de Utsichten . Twenty plays were premiered from 1896 to 1919 by the “house poet” Theodor Francke alone , including “Der Kartoffelkönig von Ochsenwärder” (1916) and “Die Hamster-Rieke aus dem Trampgang” (1917), each with around 400 performances. But serious pieces by Ibsen and Hauptmann were also played. After Ernst Drucker's death, Siegfried Simon bought the theater in 1921. When he died in 1924, his wife Anna Simon took over the management. During this time, Paul Möhring edited the biography of the Hamburg original Zitronenjette into a play that was first performed in 1940 and became a legendary success.

When the National Socialists noticed in 1941 that Ernst Drucker was a Jew, the theater was renamed the St. Pauli Theater . The theater, which was not damaged during the Second World War , was reopened on August 29, 1945 with the Zitronenjette .

The Collien family took over the house in 1970. Freddy Quinn's musical Der Junge von St. Pauli was premiered and the Zitronenjette continued to be played. The house on Spielbudenplatz was successful with its Low German dialect theater until the 1980s. Under the successors Michael († May 4, 2018) and Thomas Collien , the theater turned away from Low German plays with stars like Elke Sommer , Gunther Philipp and Willy Millowitsch and turned more to comedy and international dance and music shows. Productions like “Le Quatuor”, “Gumboots” or “Lady Salsa” celebrate their German premiere here.

In spring 1996, the Düsseldorf punk rock band Die Toten Hosen released a video clip for their song Paradies , which was included on the album Opium fürs Volk , which was released at the time, and was shot by director Gabriele Oestreich in collaboration with filmmaker Martin Weisz was recorded in the St. Pauli Theater. In addition, the Bavarian alternative rock band Emil Bulls shot their 2003 video clip for the song This Day , which can be found on the album Porcelain , in the theater.

In 2003 Ulrich Waller and Ulrich Tukur came to Thomas Collien's house. With well-known personalities from the German theater and cabaret scene, they are again working on their own productions. Among them were actors like Eva Mattes , Ulrich Tukur, Peter Franke and Christian Redl as well as cabaret artists like Mathias Richling , Matthias Deutschmann , Georg Schramm and Horst Schroth .

The St. Pauli Theater Sponsorship Association has been awarding the Ulrich Wildgruber Prize since 2007 .

The St. Pauli Theater has been operating with the addition of the former Ernst Drucker Theater since 2011 .

The house was extensively restored in 2016 taking into account the preservation of historical monuments.

Web links

Commons : St. Pauli Theater  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ Note: The theater hall of the Engelsaal operetta theater, which was founded in 2005, is located at Valentinskamp 40-42. It is still older, but after a short period of use it was used for other purposes for decades.
  2. ^ Peter Hansen: Julius Schölermann (1846–1895)
  3. ^ On Theodor Francke: Biographical note and works
  4. ↑ St. Pauli Theater: Long-time director Michael Collien is dead.
  5. ↑ The third generation also inherited theatrical blood. In: WORLD. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
  6. ^ Armgard Seegers: Cuban dance show "Lady Salsa" in the St. Pauli Theater . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on August 16, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Photo book " Die Toten Hosen , photographs by Fryderyk Gabowicz / 1986-2006 / Live Backstage Studio" , with two large-format photos from the filming of the video clip Paradies . Release: November 2006. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag GmbH, Berlin. In the chapter "04.03.1996 | Hamburg | Video shoot paradise"
  8. ↑ Stefan Reckziegel: St. Pauli Theater: An old house in new splendor. In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt, September 5, 2016, accessed on August 15, 2017.

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '57 .1 "  N , 9 ° 57' 48.4"  E