Thalia Theater (Hanover)

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"Theater of the Thalia Association in Hanover" (allegedly a " facsimile " of a steel engraving from around 1855 from the Hanover archive ; artist and publisher illegible)

The Thalia Theater in Hanover , also known as Thalia for short , was a private theater founded in the middle of the 19th century, a cinema from the beginning of the 20th century and, after the Second World War, an operetta theater that operated until the 1970s with various venues.

history

theatre

The Thalia Association was founded in 1851 to compete with the theater in the opera house maintained by the Hanoverian court . The association set up a theater hall in the Marktstrasse 47 building and used it for performances, "but with its modest means it was understandably not up to the level of the court theater." Nevertheless, the Thalia was able to hold up into the middle of the 1870s - thanks to the theatrical enthusiasm of the Hanoverians, to which the actor Karl Sonntag testified in his memoirs .

The Hanover Archive contains the “ facsimile ” of a steel engraving created around 1855 depicting the theater during a well-attended performance.

movie theater

In the early 20th century, several small theaters for the performance of developed in and around Hanover silent films , including to 1906/1907 opened Thalia Theater at the Limmerstraße corner Kochstraße .

Operetta theater

After the future state capital of Lower Saxony was almost half destroyed by the air raids on Hanover during the Second World War , there was a great need for intellectual orientation, variety and entertainment. In the midst of the economic misery, with the respective approval by the British military authorities , rows of small and larger entertainment venues were founded in Hanover. In the otherwise "[...] gray post-war everyday life", people still used Reichsmarks to pay for their theater and cinema tickets, for which there was hardly anything else to buy.

So 1947 was already Thalia formed after the architect Ernst Friedrich Brockmann for this purpose especially the Hanomagsaal in the district Linden-South , more precisely, the Ernst Winter Hall in the buildings of Hanomag had rebuilt. In March of the same year, Thalia began staging the operetta Das Dreimäderlhaus there .

After the currency reform , as a result of which the Hanoverians were now spending their scarce resources primarily on food and consumer goods, Thalia had to file for bankruptcy in 1949 . Soon, however, the conductor Gerhard Bönicke revitalized the organization so that the Thalia was able to move to the newly built Theater am Aegi in 1955 . It had a permanent venue here for almost two decades.

From 1961 to 1969, the later conductor Ernst Müller worked as solo bassist with the Thalia.

In 1973 the operetta theater was given up and the director Gerhard Bönicke was instead taken over as Kapellmeister of the opera house in order to upgrade the operettas there.

literature

to the operetta theater:

  • Horst Deuker: Thalia-Theater , in this: Between Deisterplatz and Fischerhof. The Göttingerstrasse. A traffic artery for Linden-Süd (= tours , booklet 4), Ed .: Quartier eV, Hanover: 2013, ISSN 1614-2926, pp. 183-190

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the Hannoversche Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon wrote about the Theater am Aegi: "[...] from 1958 also the domicile of the Thalia-Theater"

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hugo Thielen : Bönicke, Gerhard. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 61.
  2. ^ A b c Dieter Brosius : Hanover as a royal residence (1837–1866) - King George V / art and culture, entertainment and conviviality. In: Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 2, From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , p 327-334; here: p. 329
  3. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen: Thalia-Theater , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.), Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Thalia-Theater. In: Hanover. Art and culture lexicon . Handbook and city guide. 4th, updated and expanded edition. zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 61, 75.
  4. ^ Arnold Nöldeke : Marktstrasse 47 , in ders .: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover , ed. by the Provincial Commission for Research and Conservation of the Monuments of the Province of Hanover, Part 1: Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover , Vol. 1, Book 2, Part 1, Hanover: Self-published by the Provincial Administration, Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932, p. 572 -575 (reprinted by Wenner Verlag, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 ) ( digitized parts 1 and 2 via archive.org
  5. ↑ Photo credits. In: History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 2, ..., p. 855
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. 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 , pp. 694f.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Hunger for culture. The first opera performance in post-war Germany. In: Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Klaus Mlynek (ed.): History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 2, From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , p 633–636, here v. a. P. 635f .; largely online through google books
  8. ^ Hugo Thielen: Brockmann, Ernst. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 73
  9. ^ Müller, Ernst in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek , edited on March 10, 2014, last accessed on June 18, 2016