TAK (cabaret stage)
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
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
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:
- 1997: Reiner Kröhnert , Die Affaire Huhn
- 1998: Georg Schramm , Ans Canned
- 1999: Volker Pispers , One word resulted in the other
- 2000: Thomas Reis , A pig becomes a butcher
- 2001: Martin Buchholz , Confessions of a Prevented Mass Murderer
- 2002: Urban Priol , Everything must go
- 2003: Erwin Grosche , Mr. Helsinki doesn't want to become the capital
- 2004: Lars Reichow , The Player
- 2005: Jochen Malmsheimer , I'm not a day for a night or an evening in wood
- 2006: Dietrich Kittner , honor engineer for his life's work
- 2007: Heinrich Pachl , Confidence-Disrupting Measures
- 2008: Frank Lüdecke , naturalization
- 2009: Horst Evers , sweating is when muscles cry
- 2010: Simone Solga
- 2015: Mathias Tretter
- 2017: Uncle Fish
- 2019: Philipp Weber (cabaret artist)
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:
- 2001: Christoph Sieber
- 2003: Hagen Rether
- 2005: Claus von Wagner
- 2007: Marc-Uwe Kling
- 2010: Michael Feindler
- 2015: Night bards
Picture gallery from the former bathing establishment
A former wet room with a bathtub now also serves as a small "museum" for antiques
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
- Hugo Thielen : Theater at the kitchen garden. 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. 621.
- Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Building on the kitchen garden square. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 2, vol. 10.2 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 134; as well as Linden-Nord in the appendix list of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 21f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): Stadtlexikon Hannover: From the beginnings to the present , Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, p. 621
- ↑ https://www.tak-hannover.de/das-theater/historie/
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 12.7 " N , 9 ° 42 ′ 50.8" E