Lueneburg Theater
The Lüneburg Theater is a three-part theater in Lüneburg with its own ensembles for drama , music theater and ballet . The big house with 542 seats, the studio T.NT with 99 seats and the young theater T.3 serve as venues .
history
The Lüneburg Theater was founded in 1946 as the Lüneburg Stage , and the founding director was Rolf Hübner. The venue was the 525-seat gym of the MTV Treubund gymnastics club ; the first season opened on September 29, 1946 with a matinee performance of Stefan Zweig's The Transformed Comedian and an evening performance of Romain Rolland's A Game of Death and Love . In 1948 Hans Bauer became director for a season, under whose direction actors such as Hermann Speelmans , Siegfried Wischnewski and Karl-Heinz Vosgerau played in Lüneburg. In the era of his successor Willie Schmitt, the theater had to reduce the playing time to eight months a year for financial reasons.
Under Schmitt's successor, Heinz Zimmermann, the company was able to move into its own theater building: On October 8, 1961, the new Lüneburg City Theater was opened with Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt under the direction of the artistic director in the former Globe cinema. During this time, shuttle services from the rural area to Lüneburg were created, as well as a system of guest performances by the ensemble, which were given regularly in Celle, Hamburg-Harburg, Bad Bevensen, Hameln, Lüchow, Vorsfelde and Uelzen. In 1979 the studio stage T.NT ( Meeting Point New Theater ) was opened on the upper floor of a house on Ritterstraße.
In the first decades the repertoire of the Stadttheater Lüneburg was characterized by spoken theater, operettas (or musicals) and fairy tale games. In the 1967/1968 season, with a total budget of DM 1.1 million, 76 performances of operettas / musicals, 101 plays and 18 guest performances by foreign ensembles were offered. At that time the performances had a total of 101,626 visitors. The short playing time of 9 months back then became increasingly a problem, as the ensemble members had to be sent into unemployment every year. It was not until Thomas Bayer became the artistic director that the 1986 season was extended to 10 months, and in 1989 to eleven months. Thanks to the Lüneburg Theater Summer Festival, founded in 1988 (venue: Klosterhof at the Ratsbücherei), the drama ensemble was able to work all year round for the first time. In 1986, at Bayer's suggestion, the amateur stage “Niederdeutsche Bühne Sülfmeister e. V. “, whose performances take place in the T.NT. In the directorship of his successor Jan Aust , the theater building from the 1950s was completely renovated in 1995/1996. The T.NT studio stage moved to the municipal theater complex in 1996. On October 20, 2009, the Junge Theater , located next to the Großer Haus, was opened with the play Nellie goodbye by Lutz Hübner .
Hajo Fouquet became the successor of the artistic director Jan Aust, who retired for reasons of age. With the beginning of his directorship, the acting ensemble, which previously often worked with guest engagements, was expanded to eleven permanent positions. In addition to the opera ensemble, which has six permanent positions, changing guest soloists are also employed for larger productions. The area of theater pedagogy has also been expanded: In addition to the head of the children's and youth theater, who is also a theater pedagogue, there are two half posts in theater pedagogy, so that a comprehensive theater pedagogy program can be offered. In addition to the traditional genres of operetta, musical and revue, which are traditional for Theater Lüneburg, the music theater division also performs operas today. The Lüneburg Symphony Orchestra also give symphony concerts in the Great House. In addition to classics, comedy and Christmas fairy tales, the play also shows newer drama on the big stage and in the T.NT. The Young Theater (renamed T.3 under Hajo Fouquet) shows current children's and youth theater from all disciplines: children's and youth plays with the drama ensemble, children's operas and once per season also a ballet for children.
financing
The Lüneburg Theater has a budget of 7 million euros, of which around 20-25% is played in-house. Half of the shortfall is provided by the state of Lower Saxony and the Theater Lüneburg GmbH, which in turn is borne by the city and the district of Lüneburg . The associations Freundeskreis Theater Lüneburg eV and Volksbühne Lüneburg eV also promote the theater through financial and non-material support.
Directors
- 1946–1948: Rolf Hübner
- 1948–1949: Hans Bauer
- 1949-1959: Willie Schmitt
- 1959–1970: Heinz Zimmermann
- 1970–1971: Hans Heinz Janka
- 1971–1974: Hannes Houska
- 1975–1978: Franz Göd
- 1978–1979: Karl Heinz Köhn
- 1979–1985: Alexander de Montléart
- 1985–1991: Thomas Bayer
- 1991-2010: Jan Aust
- since 2010: Hajo Fouquet
literature
- Ilona Büttenbender: Theater in Lower Saxony . Meyer, Braunschweig [1989], ISBN 3-926701-09-9 , pp. 116-123
- Deutscher Bühnenverein, Nordwestdeutscher Landesverband (Hrsg.): Theater in Nordwestdeutschland. Reports. Information. Pictures . Deutscher Bühnenverein, Hamburg 1971, pp. 177–182
- Torsten Hünke from Podewils: Curtain up! Theater in Lüneburg 1946-1990 . Edited by the Lüneburger Stadttheater e. V. Neubauer, Lüneburg 1990, ISBN 3-88456-076-X
- Stadttheater Lüneburg (ed.): 150 years of Lüneburg theater. 1981/82 season . Mykenae-Verlag Rossberg, Darmstadt 1981
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Theater in Nordwestdeutschland , Hamburg 1971, p. 177
- ^ Büttenbender: Theater in Lower Saxony . Braunschweig 1989
- ^ The right league for Lüneburg , in: taz , March 25, 2009, accessed on November 15, 2010
- ↑ 2012/2013 season booklet of the Lüneburg Theater ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2012 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. (PDF; 3.4 MB)
- ↑ taz, January 9, 2009 Curtain up for hope , accessed on September 9, 2012
- ↑ Freundeskreis Theater Lüneburg eV
- ^ Volksbühne Lüneburg eV
Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 39.4 " N , 10 ° 24 ′ 23.5" E