TAK (cabaret stage)

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Entrance to the TAK in the building of the municipal baths, built under Karl Elkart in 1927 and now a listed building

The TAK , also Theater am Küchengarten , in Hanover in the Linden-Mitte district is a small cabaret stage with 130 seats. It presents satire , cabaret, chansons and upscale nonsense at around 170 performances per season . The TAK is the only professionally operated facility of its kind in Lower Saxony .

history

General view of the former municipal bathhouse in Linden
The former head of the TAK Nils Wintering in the TAK in discarded rows of seats in the Apollo cinema

The forerunner of the TAK was the Theater an der Bult (tab) founded by Dietrich Kittner in 1975 . It was the cellar of his house on Bischofsholer Damm.

In 1987 the company moved to larger premises in the former municipal bathhouse at the kitchen garden and renamed the theater at the kitchen garden . The building, created in 1927, was used in this function until 1983. On January 7, 1987, Dietrich Kittner and his wife Christel opened the theater with the program “ Maden in Germany”. In January 1993 Nora and Horst Janzen took over the theater and operated the TAK as a guest theater until December 2011. Since January 2012 the theater has been run by Heidi Derks and Nils Wintering. Jan-Hendrik Schmitz is head of the TAK from January 1st, 2019.

Task

A guitar and the Yamaha concert grand piano on stage
View from the stage over the tables and seating towards the technician's box

The TAK sees it as its tasks:

  • to present sophisticated political, everyday and music cabaret in Lower Saxony and thus to ensure the spread of satire in the north of the republic,
  • to win potential audiences for upscale satire,
  • To create the basis for an active cabaret career in the region.

Another important task of the TAK is to present talented young satire talents in its rooms. The TAK also shows changing exhibitions in its rooms.

In-house productions

Every two to three years the TAK stages a house production directed by Horst Janzen. So far, two cabaret solo programs with Kalla Wefel (“Views of a Clone” and “Klingelt's Finally?”), A monologue on Auschwitz (“A German Heart”) with Gregor Lawatsch and a solo cabaret with Matthias Brodowy (“Voll ins Schwarze ").

Artist awards

Horse of Lower Saxony

The Theater am Küchengarten has awarded the Lower Saxony Gaul every year since 1997 . Candidates are all cabaret artists or cabaret ensembles who performed at the TAK in the previous season. One third each is elected by the TAK team, the press and the regular audience with voting cards that are handed out and filled out at the respective performance. The award ceremony takes place in the spring of the following season. The laudator is usually the previous year's winner and the horse was presented in recent years by Wolfgang Jüttner following the award ceremony.

The previous winners are:

Foal from Lower Saxony

In addition to the Lower Saxony horse , the TAK also awards the Lower Saxony Foal Young Talent Prize at irregular intervals . On several evenings, the young cabaret artists introduce themselves to the TAK audience, who vote on the winner of the day with evaluation cards on the same evening. From all the results, the best contribution will be awarded the Lower Saxony Foal Prize . In addition to the prize money, the prize winner will have the opportunity to play his program in full in the TAK next season.

Previous winners are:

Picture gallery from the former bathing establishment

  • Direction to the historic bathroom and smoking hall

  • Behind the tiled wall in the “smoking corridor” there is a historic bath (tub) cell

  • An original clock on the bathroom cell informed about the time spent there

  • A former wet room with a bathtub now also serves as a small "museum" for antiques

  • The bath coat hooks - removable and slidable

Funding problems

The TAK has been fighting for its existence since the state funding was reduced in 2005. Through the solidarity of cabaret artists towards the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture, the total cancellation of funds was averted. The type of funding was changed in 2005 from an institutional to a project-based one. As a result, the TAK has to register projects in order to receive the entire funding amount.

Due to the rejection of projects, there was a funding gap of around € 10,000 in 2006. Through negotiations and agreements with the ministry, the TAK hoped for a fixed subsidy of € 35,000 from the state of Lower Saxony for 2007-2010.

literature

Web links

Commons : Theater am Küchengarten (Hanover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): Stadtlexikon Hannover: From the beginnings to the present , Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, p. 621
  2. ↑ https://www.tak-hannover.de/das-theater/historie/

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 12.7 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 50.8"  E