Theater Überzwerg
The Überzwerg Theater is the largest professional theater for children and young people in Saarland , Rhineland-Palatinate , Luxembourg and Lorraine .
history
In October 1978 Ingrid Braun, Ingrid Hessedenz, Alice Hoffmann , Jochen Senf and Peter Tiefenbrunner conceived a “Free Children's and Youth Theater Saarbrücken”, which was later renamed “so-called. 2 ”received. There is disagreement about whether all five people should also be regarded as founding members. On April 20, 1979 the theater celebrated its first premiere with “What does love mean here?” By the Rote Grütze theater . In October 1979 the piece was banned from being performed in schools in Saarland. Initially financed as an AB measure of the state capital Saarbrücken , the theater became organizationally independent in the 1981/82 season through a cooperation agreement with the Saarland State Theater . At that time, the theater also renamed itself to “Theater IWWERZWERCH” (the word means in Moselle Franconian “transverse, exaggerated, eccentric, exaggerated”). After an objection by a carnival club of the same name from Überherrn in the Saarland, it is now called “Theater Überzwerg”. Since 1989 the theater has had a permanent venue in Saarbrücken - St. Arnual , but also continues to offer all productions as guest performances. After years of working as a collective, the theater decided in the 1990/1991 season for a management level with an artistic director, managing director and dramaturge. Today the theater is run by a development association that is subsidized by the Saarland state government. In 1999, the Überzwerg Theater and other professional children's and youth theaters from Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate set up a "Southwest State Working Group" to facilitate the exchange of experiences and critical quality discussions.
On April 2, 2009, a comprehensive renovation of the Überzwerg theater started. After the end of the renovation work, the theater was reopened at the beginning of November 2009 - with an enlarged foyer, air conditioning in the theater room, a theater courtyard and new offices. Funds from the state's economic stimulus package were used to cover the cost of the renovation, which amounted to around 1,000,000 euros. The state capital Saarbrücken also contributed to the costs.
Claim and program
When selecting plays, the theater takes into account the fact that childhood and youth are constantly changing and endeavors to offer formally and aesthetically different productions. The schedule is determined by current pieces that are specifically designed for certain age groups. Another focus in recent years has been on mobile productions for the classroom as well as pieces that deal with the relationship between generations and demographic change . The creation of each new over- dwarf production is accompanied by a sponsorship class or a sponsored kindergarten . The theater's extensive educational theater offer includes a teacher theater group, preparation and follow-up for all productions, viewing events for teachers, audience discussions and regular events and workshops with the State Institute for Education and Media (LPM).
Youth clubs
The first Überzwerg youth club was launched back in 1989, and two more followed. This made the Überzwerg theater one of the first German theaters to have a theater play club for young people installed. Approx. 40–50 children and young people between 10 and 20 years of age meet weekly in the Überzwerg theater to learn and do theater under professional guidance. Since autumn 2007 the überzwerg has also been offering a play club for children between 6 and 10 years of age.
Festival "SpielStark"
Since 2002, Theater Überzwerg has been organizing the children's and youth theater festival “Spielstark” together with the city of Ottweiler , which takes place every September / October. In addition to the performances of professional children's and youth theaters, theater workshops form a thematic focus of the festival.
Honors, prizes, awards
- 1992: At the invitation of the Goethe Institute, tour through Poland with the production "Robinson & Crusoe" by Nino d'Introna / Giacomo Ravicchio
- 1998: 3rd place for the production "The Special Life of Hilletje Jans" by Ad de Bont at the 3rd Marburg Children's and Youth Theater Week
- 2000: At the invitation of the Goethe-Institut, tour through France (including in Paris, Lille, Toulouse, Lyon ...) with the bilingual production “It was two royal children / Il était une fois deux enfants de rois” by Wilfrid Grote (music: Peer Raben )
- 2001: 3rd place and audience award for the production "Vier aus Papier" by Erhard Schmied (music: Oliver Hottong) at the 6th Marburg Children's and Youth Theater Week
- 2002: Erhard Schmied's Überzwerg commissioned production "Vier aus Papier" was nominated for the German Children's Theater Prize 2002
- 2004: The production "lauschrausch" by Edith Ehrhardt at TRIANGEL 2004, the 4th international children and youth theater festival in the Lake Constance region
- 2004: "lauschrausch" the only German production at KORCZAK 2004, the 8th International Children and Youth Theater Festival in Warsaw; afterwards further guest performances in Poland
- 2007: The production “Für Dich!” At KORCZAK 2007, the 11th International Children and Youth Theater Festival in Warsaw
- 2008: 2nd place for the production “Für Dich!” By Sebastian Eilers at the 13th Hessian Children's and Youth Theater Days in Marburg
- 2010: Invitation of the author Petra Wüllenweber and the theater Überzwerg with the world premiere of “Am Horizont” to the “KinderStücke 2010” at the 35th Mülheim Theater Days
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Conrath : The people language of the lower Saar and the Upper Moselle - a Moselle-Franconian dictionary . In: Contributions to German Philology . tape 41 . Wilhelm Schmitz Verlag, Giessen 1975.
- ↑ history and theater program about dwarf. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 13.6 ″ N , 7 ° 0 ′ 36.4 ″ E