Lindenhof Theater

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Theater Lindenhof, entrance area (June 2015)

The Theater Lindenhof is from the southwest German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg , the counties Reutlingen , Tübingen and Zollernalb district and the city of Burladingen funded regional theater on the Swabian Alb . It was founded in 1981 in the rural village of Melchingen , which has less than 1000 inhabitants and has been a district of Burladingen since the municipal reform in 1973. The theater is located on the premises of a converted restaurant - the former Linde . The Lindenhof Theater organizes around 350 events annually with over 45,000 spectators - around 230 of them in Melchingen and 120 in cities and towns in Baden-Württemberg as well as nationwide guest venues. The Lindenhof Theater sees itself as a poetic-critical popular theater with a core reference to the Swabian Alb.

It has theater partnerships with 22 cities in Baden-Württemberg. In terms of its legal form, the Lindenhof Theater has been a foundation since January 1, 2011 .

In addition to the staging of own plays , cabaret and cabaret programs , musical performances and other, sometimes experimental stage events, (often Swabian ) interpretations of theater or literary classics and reading productions are part of the theater 's repertoire . The theater makers gained nationwide attention with their open-air productions and community stage projects .

ensemble

The board of the Theater Lindenhof Foundation consists of the two directors Stefan Hallmayer and Bernhard Hurm and the commercial director Christian Burmeister-van Dülmen. The acting ensemble consists of Berthold Biesinger , Stefan Hallmayer, Bernhard Hurm, Kathrin Kestler , Franz Xaver Ott , Gerd Plankenhorn , Linda Schlepps and Carola Schwelien and is complemented by freelance actors and musicians. Some of the permanent members of the ensemble fill several functions as actors, directors or writers and have also worked in television and film productions such as Global Player - Where We Are Isch Front . The career of the director Antú Romero Nunes , who is now directing at first theaters in Hamburg, Berlin and Vienna, began in the Lindenhof Theater.

history

The interior of the barn of the Lindenhof estate, which was converted into a “theater barn”, is now the main venue of the theater in Melchingen itself. It offers more space for both the stage and the audience than the event room in the restaurant (photo June 2015).

Originating from an independent school theater group originally founded in Reutlingen and operating on the left-wing alternative cultural spectrum, the Lindenhof Theater was opened in Melchingen in 1981 - initially as a registered association - with the production of Semmer Kerle or koine (meaning: Are we real men or not ) in the converted Gasthaus Linde . The initially difficult financial situation was compensated for over the years, so that the theater became increasingly independent of the income from the catering business that was continued at the same time (“theater bar” and “theater restaurant ” were common nicknames for the Lindenhof theater in the first few years).

Apart from the in- house productions written, composed or otherwise originally written by Ensemble employees Bernhard Hurm, Uwe Zellmer, Franz Xaver Ott, Susanne Hinkelbein or Dietlinde Elsässer , the Lindenhof has created productions based on models by Maria Beig , Sebastian Blau (pseudonym of Josef Eberle ), Bertolt Brecht , Georg Büchner , Miguel de Cervantes , Brian Friel , Max Frisch , Werner Fritsch , Robert Gernhardt , Peter Härtling , Friedrich Hölderlin , Ödön von Horváth , Felix Huby , Henrik Ibsen , Walter Jens , Heinrich von Kleist , Heiner Kondschak , Franz Xaver Kroetz , Ingrid Lausund , Molière , Seán O'Casey , Sebastian Sailer , Friedrich Schiller , Martin Schleker , Karl Schönherr , Werner Schwab , William Shakespeare , Thomas Strittmatter , Kressmann Taylor , Thaddäus Troll , Karl Valentin and Kurt Wilhelm in meanwhile over 30 years into a “home theater that does not exist anywhere else” ( Die Zeit ) . According to a survey from November 2008, 5000 events with around 1.1 million viewers had taken place by then.

The theater as well as individual ensemble members received numerous awards and prizes (for details see below ), including the Volkstheaterpreis of the State of Baden-Württemberg , the Theater Prize of the Stuttgarter Zeitung , the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the City of Tübingen and the Cabaret Prize of the State of Baden -Wuerttemberg . With the Theater Lindenhof far from the metropolises, a theater has developed that has put both the Swabian dialect and the dialectic between home and foreign at the center of its productions. Often it is the marginal characters, the outsiders, that the Volkstheater brings to the stage in premieres.

Nationally known performances and pieces

Entrance ticket to "Poliakoff's event band"

The theater makers gained nationwide attention with open-air productions about the life of Friedrich Hölderlin and the theater walk Die Winterreise (performance title: Melchinger Winterreise ), which Peter Härtling - inspired by Franz Schubert's song cycle Winterreise - wrote for the Lindenhof, as well as the production A train journey and space disappears ( 1999/2000). Alternating with the Zimmer Theater Tübingen and the Landestheater Tübingen , the Lindenhof Theater shares responsibility for the annual summer theater production in the district and university town of Tübingen, about 24 km to the north .

Some productions were recorded by SWR and 3sat and then broadcast on television.

The Bernhard Hurm and Uwe Zellmer wrote, and for the history of Lindenhöfler legendary applicable so-called "witches play" Night or day, or now , one as timeless political and socio-ethical parable listed first 1984 drama in the historical context of the early modern witch hunts , learned in 1995 directed by Andreas Morell with the title Hexenfeuer an independent film adaptation. In its theatrical version, this play was so far the only Lindenhof production with which the ensemble appeared in guest performances in non-German-speaking countries (in 1988 in the northern Italian city of Parma , in the Russian - at the time Soviet - capital Moscow , and in Dushanbe , the capital of Tajikistan or the then Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic ). In November 1996 there was night or day or now also a contribution to Politik im Freie Theater , a theater festival organized by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) about every 3 years , which took place in Bremen in 1996 .

As early as 1993, the Lindenhof Theater was represented at this festival in Dresden with the Volksstück Polenweiher based on a model by the playwright Thomas Strittmatter . Another contribution by the Lindenhof ensemble to the fourth Festival Politics in the Free Theater took place in Stuttgart in November 1999 with Peter Härtling's Melchinger Winterreise .

At the international theater festival Theater der Welt , which took place in Stuttgart in 2005, Theater Lindenhof made the only German contribution with the play Schwabenblues by Felix Huby .

In May 2013, the first performance of the play A Village in the Resistance by Franz Xaver Ott in Mössingen with a historical reference to the Mössingen general strike of 1933 was another highlight of the Lindenhof Theater, which received national attention . The implementation of the stage work, which was performed around 20 times in front of a sold out house until autumn of that year, about Germany's first collective resistance campaign against National Socialism in power, was under the patronage of Winfried Kretschmann , Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister, who has been in office since May 2011. In addition to the actor ensemble of Theater Lindenhof, over 100 amateur actors from Mössingen's citizenship took part. Apart from the in the old Pausa listed, a former factory building Mössinger ideas was the piece in June 2013 a program contribution to the renowned Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen . (see also subsection in the article on the Mössinger general strike )

Prizes and awards

In the course of its existence, the Lindenhof Theater as such, or individual productions or ensemble members of the theater, received the following prizes and awards:

literature

  • Thomas Vogel in collaboration with Bärbel G. Renner: “Come on! Into the open, friend! ”- Theater Lindenhof, Melchingen ; Klöpfer and Meyer Verlag, Tübingen, 1997, ISBN 3-931402-11-8
  • Burkhard Riegels-Windhauer: It's the people! - photographic portraits of the actors of the Lindenhof theater ; artur. Verlag Kirchentellinsfurt, 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813648-0-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conception of the theater
  2. ↑ Imprint of the foundation
  3. ↑ Presentation of the ensemble on the web domain of the Theater Lindenhof
  4. ↑ Presentation of the guests on the web domain of the Theater Lindenhof
  5. ^ Presentation of the musicians on the web domain of the Theater Lindenhof
  6. ^ The rapid theater career of Antu Romero Nunes - Schwäbisches Tagblatt dated September 7, 2010
  7. ↑ Schillerscheune , article in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit from March 30, 2000 (www.zeit.de)
  8. ↑ Entry on Hexenfeuer on imdb.com
  9. ↑ this and other information in the section cf. with the chronicle of Theater Lindenhof (subpage from www.theater-lindenhof.de, accessed on March 16, 2013)
  10. ↑ A village in resistance , information on the content of the play, the cast and cooperation partners on the website of Theater Lindenhof (theater-lindenhof.de)
  11. ↑ Mössing General Strike comes on stage Article of the daily newspaper Die Welt from May 6, 2013 on the stage version of the Mössing General Strike material in the play A Village in Resistance
  12. ↑ "A village in resistance" premiered with 100 actors ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Kai-Uwe Brinkmann; Review of the performance of the play A Village in Resistance at the Ruhr Festival 2013 in the daily Ruhr Nachrichten on June 9, 2013 (accessed on June 12, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruhrnachrichten.de
  13. ↑ cf. Chronicle of the Lindenhof Theater
  14. ↑ Ludwig-Uhland-Preis goes to Melchingen , report on the web domain of the IHK Reutlingen (accessed on March 17, 2014)
  15. ↑ Official press release : "BKM Prize for Cultural Education 2014" awarded (PDF file)
  16. ↑ Article in the Hamburger Abendblatt on the award ceremony on June 30, 2014 (www.abendblatt.de)

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