City Theater and Friedrich Ebert Elementary School
The ensemble Stadttheater and Friedrich-Ebert-Grundschule are listed buildings of the new building in Luckenwalde , the district town of the Teltow-Fläming district in Brandenburg .
history
Even before the First World War , the city purchased a piece of land with the aim of building a school on it. However, the war and the poor economic situation initially prevented planning for such a building. After 1918 members of the trade unions, freethinkers and the SPD took up the idea again. In 1924 , the city announced the idea competition , a competition for the construction of a new school building. The city fathers attached great importance to the fact that the school auditorium could also be used as a stage : the city had not received a permit to build a festival hall. Therefore, the auditorium should also be suitable for use as a theater. Luckenwalde city architect Hans Graf won the competition and thus prevailed against well-known competitors such as Bruno Taut , whose design provided for the theater facade to be turned towards the school. On behalf of the city council, Graf built the building complex, consisting of a double elementary school and an extended auditorium, together with the city architect Rudolf Brennecke and the architect Paul Backes between 1927 and 1930. The schools were inaugurated on August 7th and 8th, 1930 and offered a reform pedagogical teaching program. The “secular school” was considered a prime example of free-spirited upbringing and education. The theater opened on September 29, 1930 with the operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss . Before that, on September 15, 1930, the first theatrical performance of Edward Carpenter's play to be a father took place. In 1930 the city had around 125 performances. In 1933 the city renamed the school the Hindenburg School and ended the new form of teaching. The founding director Erwin Münchow was released and later deported to the Oranienburg , Börgermoor and Lichtenburg concentration camps . From 1937 to 1944 there was a separate ensemble at the house, the I. State Theater of Mark Brandenburg GmbH . It had to give way to an armaments company that, from June 1944, misappropriated the building and, among other things, had the bunker built in the schoolyard, which was still preserved in the 21st century. After the end of the Second World War , the Red Army used the building as an officers' mess from 1945 to 1952. After they moved out, the city was able to resume school operations. The building was renamed Ernst-Thälmann-Oberschule; the theater used as a guest theater. After the fall of the Wall , the city renamed the school Friedrich-Ebert-Grundschule again and renovated it between 1993 and 1997. In 2013, 23 teachers taught around 370 students. In the 3rd, 4th and 5th grades there is a lesson in which students with and without special educational needs take part together. Extensive renovation work took place in the theater between 1991 and 1998.
architecture
The design was not without controversy at the time, because Graf mixed a modern design language with the architecture of the early 1920s. The reddish plastered building complex with a cubic structure is equipped with flat roofs . In contrast, there are the light blue metal railings that demarcate the property from the street. The school building has four floors and is bordered on the side by the gym with a drawing terrace and an astronomy tower. The ribbon windows are equipped with continuous cornices made of gray stone , which emphasizes the character of the building. The theater, which is decorated with expressionist shapes, offers 726 seats, after which the seating was changed twice. A theater cellar houses a further 60 seats and a restaurant.
See also
literature
- Georg Dehio (arr. Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- Klaus-Ulrich Seifert: On the history of the Luckenwalde city theater. In: Cultural Office of the Teltow-Fläming District (Hrsg.): Home yearbook for the Teltow-Fläming district. 1st year, 1994.
- City of Luckenwalde (Ed.): City of Luckenwalde - Historical walks. Flyer, without date, p. 24.
- City of Luckenwalde (ed.): Erich Mendelsohn and the modern age in Luckenwalde. Exhibition catalog Luckenwalde - WerkStadt der Moderne from 2003 and 2004, p. 54.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ AG Städtkranz Berlin-Brandenburg and Brandenburg Chamber of Architects (ed.): Die Stadtentdecker - Schoolchildren on the move in their city. Luckenwalde 2013, p. 38.
- ↑ On the history of the city theater and the former double adult education center ( memento of the original from October 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the city of Luckenwalde, accessed on May 9, 2015.
- ↑ Open door in the Luckenwalde City Theater. on: MAz-online. March 18, 2015.
Coordinates: 52 ° 5 ′ 17 " N , 13 ° 10 ′ 34.3" E