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The Neue Flora (Stage Theater Neue Flora) in Hamburg , built from 1988 to 1990 according to plans by the architects Uwe Köhnholdt and Konstantin Kleffel, is one of the largest theaters in Germany with 1965 seats (1415 in the stalls, 550 in the tier). The auditorium has an area of 1530 m², the stage 240 m². The stage portal is 14 meters wide and 8.5 meters high.
The dispute over the construction
After since April 1986 in the estate of the City available Operettenhaus on the Reeperbahn with great success the musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber was played, the city agreed with the producers, their addition for The Phantom of the Opera the ailing Flora Theater in Schanzenviertel on To leave shoulder blade 71, which has only been used as a department store for decades. Militant resistance formed against this. Eventually, in 1989, the building was occupied by autonomists and named it Rote Flora .
Previously, on September 13, 1988, it was announced that the location on the corner of Stresemannstrasse and Alsenstrasse in Altona-Nord was considered more suitable because of the opposite S-Bahn station Holstenstrasse and the local "indifference to the construction project". In fact, the construction was also highly controversial here: residents sued unsuccessfully through two instances against the building permit and the Altona district assembly demanded measures to protect the adjacent residential areas from the additional traffic. "Weekend walks" took place regularly around the fortress-like secured building site. At the premiere on June 29, 1990, more than 3500 police officers stood ready to protect the guests from 1000 demonstrators, some of whom were violent . The cars of the theatergoers driving up were nevertheless demolished and smeared and those who came on foot were pelted with paint, rotten fruit and eggs or assaulted in some other way. For the premiere party, Stella AG invited to a secret location, the Altona fish auction hall .
After the bankruptcy of Stella AG in 2002, Stage Entertainment (formerly Stage Holding ) took over the company and initiated extensive renovations in all areas.
Performances
The musical The Phantom of the Opera with Peter Hofmann and Anna Maria Kaufmann in the leading roles was performed for the first time in Hamburg on June 29, 1990 (preview on June 19, 1990) in the “Neue Flora” . By June 30, 2001, more than 4,400 performances followed with a total of seven million viewers. From September 21, 2001 to June 30, 2002 the musical Mozart was a guest ! (by Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay ) with Yngve Gasoy Romdal in the title role in “Neue Flora” (320 performances). The musical Tarzan was performed more than 2000 times in Hamburg.
Beginning | The End | musical | genre | organizer | Remarks |
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June 29, 1990 | June 30, 2001 | The Phantom of the Opera | musical | Stella Entertainment | German premiere |
September 21, 2001 | June 30, 2002 | Mozart! | |||
December 7, 2002 | October 5, 2003 | Titanic - The Musical | Stage entertainment | ||
December 7, 2003 | January 22, 2006 | dance of the Vampires | |||
March 16, 2006 | June 29, 2008 | Dirty Dancing | show | European premiere | |
October 19, 2008 | 2nd October 2013 | Tarzan | musical | German premiere | |
November 28, 2013 | September 30, 2015 | The Phantom of the Opera | Resumption | ||
December 6, 2015 | 3rd February 2019 | Disney's Aladdin | European premiere | ||
April 14, 2019 | March 12, 2020 | Cirque Du Soleil Paramour |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Cheerful and exhausting". In Der Spiegel 23/90 of June 4, 1990, pp. 240-243 online version
- ↑ a b http://www.stage-entertainment.de/musicals-shows/disneys-aladdin-hamburg.html
- ↑ The musical Disney's Aladdin is an adaptation of the Disney film Aladdin .
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 45 ″ N , 9 ° 57 ′ 1 ″ E