Minden City Theater

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Minden City Theater

The Minden City Theater is a rank theater in the East Westphalian city ​​of Minden in the Minden-Lübbecke district .

history

The theater was built in the neo-baroque style between 1906 and 1908 , the design comes from the architects August Kersten (city building officer in Minden) and Paul Kanold (government master builder in Berlin). The outer facade is plastered and shows references to the Frederician Baroque. The building of the Minden district government and the district office of the Minden district were built in the immediate vicinity in the same architectural style . The theater has 535 seats.

The city theater was opened on October 1, 1908, and Goethe's Iphigenie on Tauris was the first to be performed. The theater does not have its own ensemble, but produces its own productions. It serves as a venue for touring theater and is also used as a concert hall; the Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra is a regular guest there .

In September 1998 the opera Friedrich und Katte by Wolfgang Knuth was premiered at the Mindener Stadttheater. This opera was written especially for the city's 1200th anniversary.

On November 15, 2008, the 100th anniversary was celebrated.

Operas by Richard Wagner are on the program as in-house productions by the Stadttheater, the Richard Wagner Association and the NWD. In the spring of 1999, the Minden Richard Wagner Association came up with the idea of ​​continuing operas specially staged in Minden. The first project was Der Fliegende Holländer .

The "Holländer" project attracted nationwide attention. Anne Schwanewilms (Senta) and Urban Malmberg (Dutch) sang under the conductor Frank Beermann (including General Music Director in Chemnitz ). The orchestra sat on stage in the production created by Holger Müller-Brandes (director) and Hans-Peter Korth.

In 2005 Richard Wagner's four-hour Opus Tannhäuser was performed under the direction of Keith Warner . Frank Beermann conducted, John Pierce sang Tannhäuser, Andreas Hörl the Landgrave, Heiko Trinsinger the Wolfram. Anne Schwanewilms played Elisabeth in the premiere.

Lohengrin followed in 2009 in a production by John Dew .

In 2010 Andrea Krauledat was hired as artistic director and Viola Schneider as theater pedagogue at the Stadttheater Minden.

In 2011, the Minden City Theater and Theater im Park Bad Oeynhausen decided to cooperate with regard to the TheaterCard 25, which at that time can be used jointly for both theaters.

2011 celebrated the first co-production with the Theater im Park in Bad Oeynhausen: "Ladies Night - All or not", comedy by Stephen Sinclair and Anthony McCarten, directed by Andrea Krauledat with Gregor Eckert, Alois Moyo, Armin Sengenberger, Matthias Simon, Gerd Lukas Storzer successful premiere among others. Likewise the satire by Werner Hahn “Hey Boss, here I am!” - the first mobile youth theater production of the Stadttheater Minden with Aimée Goepfert, Gregor Eckert, Robert von Marck, directed by Andrea Krauledat and Viola Schneider.

In 2012 Tristan und Isolde was performed under the direction of Matthias von Stegmann as a joint project of the Richard Wagner Association Minden, the Minden City Theater and the Northwest German Philharmonic. Dara Hobbs and Andreas Schager sang in the main roles.

In 2014 the first professional youth theater project "Romeo and Juliet - Out With Love" - ​​a joint production of the Kurt Tucholsky Comprehensive School and the Minden City Theater, takes place on the main stage of the City Theater. Directed by Viola Schneider / Andrea Krauledat.

In 2015/2016, two new professional arrangements of classical materials follow in cooperation with young people on the big stage of the city theater. “Die Räuber” by Friedrich Schiller in cooperation with the Ratsgymnasium Minden and with the youth club t3 “Die Nibelungen” by Moritz Rinke. Today's modern theater by and for young people in Minden. Both productions will also be shown in the “Six-Pack” series of the season in 15/16.

2015 Start of the much discussed “RING” cycle in the Minden City Theater with “Rheingold” as the first premiere under the direction of Gerd Heinz and the musical direction of Frank Beermann as a co-production of the Richard Wagner Association, the Northwest German Philharmonic and the Minden City Theater. The line-up of singers in the RHEINGOLD production in Minden is top-class. Renatus Meszar sings the Wotan. Loge sings Thomas Mohr, Alberich is Heiko Trinsinger, who has already played in “Tannhäuser” and “Lohengrin” in Minden. Fricka is Kathrin Göring, Julia Bauer Freia. The giants Fasolt and Fafner Till Faveyts and James Moellenhoff. Erda is Evelyn Krahe. Dan Karlström embodied the mime.

2016 Premiere of “Die Walküre” opera by Richard Wagner from the cycle “Der Ring des Nibelungen” Production: Stadttheater Minden, Richard Wagner Verband Minden and the Northwest German Philharmonic. In the main roles, among others, Magdalena Anna Hofmann as Sieglinde and Dara Hobbs, the Mindener “Isolde” from 2012, as Brünnhilde. Among the Valkyries are u. a. Dorothea Winkel and Yvonne Berg. Thomas Mohr sings Siegmund.

In February 2017, for the first time in North Rhine-Westphalia, “Das neue Wir” - a convention on urban society in transition - took place in all rooms of the Stadttheater Minden with discussion rounds, opportunities for encounters, diverse contact and exchange exchanges, workshops and keynote speeches. This event was supported by the Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Kultursekretariat NRW Gütersloh, the education partner Minden / Social Initiative of Minden Economy, refugee partner Minden and GreenFairPlanet from Minden. Over 2,500 people were counted in the city theater over three days. New forms of encounter were used and culture was offered in a variety of forms. The theater was deliberately chosen as a forum, meeting point and location.

The project with unaccompanied refugees "Looking ahead", which was specially developed for the "Das neue Wir" weekend by the group around director Canip Gündogdu, theater pedagogue Viola Schneider and musician Daniel Mandolini, has won several awards and will be presented at the Berlin Festival in May Invited in 2017. As part of this nationwide competition, eight winning groups were selected from around 110 applications, which were invited to the one-week Theatertreffen in Berlin for the Theatertreffen der Jugend at the end of the competition. In addition, “Looking Forward” from the Minden City Theater was invited to the Bremen Theater for the 27th federal meeting “Youth clubs in theaters” in October 2017.

Head of the City Theater

  • Leo Walter Stein
  • 1910–1917: Karl Ulrichs
  • Carl Paulsen
  • Max Mathay
  • 1945–1966: Wilhelm Kahre
  • 1966: Friedrich Wilhelm Steffen (acting)
  • 1967–1992 Hans-Joachim Stahlhut
  • 1992–2010: Bertram Schulte (Artistic Director)
  • 2010: Andrea Krauledat (General Manager)

Web links

Commons : Stadttheater Minden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Comments on the structural development of the Minden City Theater ( Memento from October 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Hall / seating plan. (PDF 316kb) stadttheater-minden.de, May 31, 2012, accessed on June 22, 2018 .
  3. ↑ The theater begins ( memento from October 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Minden City Theater. minden.de, accessed on June 22, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Raoul Mörchen: The wound of the Hohenzollern . In: Berliner Zeitung. October 8, 1998.
  6. ↑ Excerpts from the article by Udo Stephan Köhne / Jubilee magazine of the Stadttheater Minden 2008/2009
  7. ↑ The Flying Dutchman Production. wagner-verband-minden.de, accessed on June 21, 2018 .
  8. ^ Tannhauser production. wagner-verband-minden.de, accessed on June 21, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Lohengrin. wagner-verband-minden.de, accessed on June 21, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Theater Magazin 2010/11 page 2. (PDF 4.3 MB) stadttheater-minden.de, July 12, 2010, accessed on June 21, 2018 .
  11. ^ Mindener Tageblatt, Viola Schneider, Minden's first theater teacher. (Video) youtube.com, April 27, 2010, accessed June 21, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Theatermagazin 2011/12, page 4. (PDF 6 MB) stadttheater-minden.de, May 30, 2011, accessed on June 21, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Theatermagazin 2011/12, page 95 (PDF 6 MB) stadttheater-minden.de, May 30, 2011, accessed on June 21, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Theatermagazin 2011/12, page 107 (PDF 6 MB) stadttheater-minden.de, May 30, 2011, accessed on June 21, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Flyer. (PDF 1.4 MB) wagner-verband-minden.de, June 21, 2012, accessed on June 21, 2018 .
  16. ^ "Romeo and Juliet - Out With Love". (PDF 1.51 MB) stadttheater-minden.de, May 30, 2017, accessed on June 21, 2018 .
  17. ↑ "The Robbers". (PDF (8 MB)) stadttheater-minden.de, May 22, 2016, accessed on June 21, 2018 .
  18. ↑ "The Nibelungs". (PDF 5.2 MB) stadttheater-minden.de, September 21, 2015, accessed on June 21, 2018 .
  19. ↑ a b The ring in Minden. ring-in-minden.de, accessed on June 22, 2018 .
  20. ↑ a b The new we. minden.de, accessed on June 22, 2018 .
  21. ↑ a b c d e f 100 years of the Stadttheater ( memento from October 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  22. ↑ The theater goes on. The 1910–1917 seasons under Carl Ulrichs from the Osnabrück City Theater. ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Stadttheater Minden
  23. ↑ The new theater director brings a lot of passion and experience with her. ( Memento of December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Minden, July 14, 2009, accessed December 30, 2015.

Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 14 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 7 ″  E