Theater am Meer - Low German Stage Wilhelmshaven
The Theater am Meer - Niederdeutsche Bühne Wilhelmshaven is a private theater in Wilhelmshaven , which is run in the legal form of a non-profit association.
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The semi-professional stage has been presenting plays in Low German since 1932 . The ensemble is trained professionally through seminars of the Low German Stage Association and its own training and further education measures. In addition, the Theater am Meer - Niederdeutsche Bühne Wilhelmshaven contributes to maintaining the Low German language through active training for young talent - especially in the theater school for children and young people.
In cooperation with professional and stage directors, the stage presents a mixed evening program with four productions for each season in its own room theater with 99 seats at Kieler Straße 63. From comedy to comedy to farce and drama to tragedy, everything is represented that fits in the Low German language qualitatively in the program offer. Pieces written in Low German are represented as well as pieces from living spaces in other languages that have been translated or transferred into Low German. The room theater of the Theater am Meer was opened on May 8, 2010 with the rock musical "Wi rockt op platt". The theater café "Kulissensnack" is attached to the theater foyer.
The Theater am Meer - Niederdeutsche Bühne Wilhelmshaven is affiliated with the Niederdeutscher Bühnenbund Niedersachsen-Bremen . The Theater am Meer - Niederdeutsche Bühne Wilhelmshaven is funded by the State of Lower Saxony through the Lower Saxony Heimatbund eV through the Bühnenbund .
history
The history of the theater by the sea goes back to the second half of the 1920s. At that time, the school principal Heinrich Frese (1885–1974) , who taught in Rüstringen , was asked to set up a Low German amateur stage. For many years Frese was chairman of the seaside bathing, home and traffic association Rüstringen , which later became the Wilhelmshaven home association “Die Boje”. He was the brother of August Frese, the founder of the Low German Stage in Oldenburg, today's August-Hinrichs-Stage at the Oldenburg State Theater . On September 28, 1932, the Low German Stage Rüstringen was founded. The stage emerged from a working group of the Heimatverein. Heinrich Frese was appointed first stage manager because he already had experience with Low German plays performed by laypeople. After it was founded, Hermann Beuss (1858–1946), a former professional actor, came to the newly established stage and taught the ensemble the basics of theater play, but above all the necessary speaking technique.
The first staging of the Low German Stage in Rüstringen was the comedy "Stratenmusik" by Paul Schurek in 1932 , which was performed in the "Centralhallen" on Peterstrasse. In the first few years the stage only played pieces that were originally written in Low German. These were pieces by the Low German authors Heinrich Behnken , Hermann Boßdorf , Ivo Braak , Carl Budich , Karl Bunje , Heinrich Diers , Hans Ehrke , Gorch Fock , August Hinrichs , Rudolf Kinau , Friedrich Lange , Walter Looschen , Alma Rogge and Wilfried Wroost . In addition to the “Central Halls”, the “New Playhouse”, the former seaman's house of the town of Rüstringen in Bismarckstrasse, also served as a venue.
From 1933 to 1937 the stage offered open-air performances on the Rosenhügel in the Rüstringen city park each summer. On the natural stage designed by the Hamburg architect Leberecht Migge , mostly farmer's cocks were played: 1933 " Wenn de Hahn kreiht " by August Hinrichs, 1934 "Deerns ut'n D Körperkrog" by Friedrich Lange, 1935 " Swienskomödi " by August Hinrichs and 1937 "Besöök ut de Stadt ”by Friedrich Lange.
On November 28, 1942, Gorch Fock's “Cilli Cohrs” was the last performance. After that, the game had to be stopped due to the war. After the Second World War, gaming continued on October 21, 1946 with the performance of “Kunzert in Dippelshagen” by Jepp Andersen. Stage members Waldemar Schröder and Willy Beutz had reunited the former ensemble members after the war. Waldemar Schröder took over the chairmanship for two years before Willy Beutz became stage manager. Heinrich Frese stayed with the ensemble as honorary chairman.
The "Werftspeisehaus" on the corner of Gökerstrasse and Marktstrasse served as the venue. With Fritz Norden, the stage was once again a professional actor and experienced director. Karl Bunje's piece Up Düvels Schuvkar brought it to 58 performances with around 35,000 visitors.
In 1952, the former naval directorate at the corner of Virchowstrasse and Peterstrasse was converted into the Wilhelmshaven City Theater . The Niederdeutsche Bühne Rüstringen moved there and played De latinsche Bur , a comedy by August Hinrichs , on October 29, 1952 as the opening contribution . Professional directors were again available for the Niederdeutsche Bühne. With Willi Minauf (1889–1968) an experienced professional actor could be won as an actor and director. Rudolf Sang (1900–1972) became director of the Wilhelmshaven City Theater. In addition to this activity, he regularly staged plays for the Low German stage as a guest.
Willy Beutz headed the Low German Stage in Rüstringen from 1947 to 1982. From 1961 to 1982 he was also President of the Low German Stage Association of Lower Saxony and Bremen . Since then, the Bühnenbund has been running numerous qualification courses with professional teachers for directors, actors, make-up and stage designers, who are attended by the ensembles of the member theaters of the Lower German Stage Federation of Lower Saxony and Bremen. In 1977, Willy Beutz founded the Willy Beutz Prize to promote Low German Drama , which is awarded every two years by an independent jury of experts. The award-winning plays are awarded a challenge cup and a sum of money. The acting award is endowed with a total of 6,000 euros.
After Willy Beutz , the ensemble member Karl-Heinz Herpel took over the management of the stage for two years, before Arnold Preuß became stage director in 1985 , who had been part of the ensemble since 1973. High German classics were also played under his direction, such as the 1986 first performance in Low German Liliom by Ferenc Molnár (Low German version Hans-Peter Renz), directed by Harald Dornseiff ( Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord ), with Liliom (Arnold Preuß) and Julie ( Marion Zomerland).
This also included the Low German premiere of Bertolt Brecht's De Herr Puntila un sien Knecht Matti , the Low German version of Arnold Preuss, directed by Georg Immelmann , the artistic director of the Lower Saxony North State Theater , on the Great Common Stage Day in May 1989 .
In 1995 Arnold Preuß became the commercial director of the Lower Saxony North State Theater. Stage members Klaus Aden and Rolf-Peter Lauxtermann took over the management of the stage for four years. During this time, the stage's own theater school for children aged 8 to 14 was founded. In this theater school, basic terms of theater and the Low German language are taught. In May 2003 the stage was renamed to “Theater am Meer - Niederdeutsche Bühne Wilhelmshaven”. Marion Zomerland and Arnold Preuss were appointed as stage managers with equal rights. In addition, Preuss has been President of the Lower German Stage Association of Lower Saxony and Bremen since 2005.
In 2007 the Oldenburg landscape awarded the work at the theater school of the Theater am Meer with the sponsorship award. The prize is awarded for the outstanding commitment to young and dynamic cultivation of the Low German language, in which young people are introduced to the Low German cultural heritage.
In August 2011, the monologue for an actor by Frank Pinkus, Alone in the Sauna, was the first play in the High German language (director: Ulf Goerges, actor: Arnold Preuß).
In November 2011 the world premiere of the police musical Lüttstadtrevier by Marion Zomerland took place (directors: Marion Zomerland and Arnold Preuß, musical direction: Nicolas C. Ducci), in which a large part of the ensemble came from the stage's own theater school.
Since May 2012, the two-year courses of the stage's own theater school have been running under professional theater pedagogical supervision.
In November 2012 the world premiere of the musical Dat Meer-Hotel by Marion Zomerland took place (directors: Marion Zomerland and Arnold Preuß, musical recordings: Nicolas C. Ducci), in which a large part of the ensemble came from the stage's own theater school.
In October 2013, the facade of the theater received a mural by the graffiti artist Bastian Tapken. The mural shows the open curtain of the theater. This legal graffiti is the first as part of the “Graffiti-free Wilhelmshaven” campaign by the city and association for local prevention (VKP).
In May 2014 the theater won the Willy Beutz Acting Prize endowed with 3,000 euros for the first time with the crime drama "Tööv, dat dat düster is" by Frederick Knott, Low German Lore Moor, director: Bernd Poppe.
Federal President Joachim Gauck has awarded stage director Marion Zomerland the Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and stage director Arnold Preuss the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her many years of voluntary commitment in the field of maintaining and promoting the Low German language, theater play and youth cultural work. The award took place in the Wilhelmshaven town hall on March 9, 2016.
In May 2018 the Theater am Meer won the 3,000 Euro Willy Beutz Acting Award with the play "Toeerst kummt de Familie" by Joe DiPietro, in Low German by Cornelia Stein and Rolf Petersen, directed by Philip Lüsebrink.
Stage management
- Heinrich Frese (September 28, 1932 to 1942 - then playing temporarily suspended due to the war)
- Waldemar Schröder (1945 to 1947)
- Willy Beutz (1947 to October 1982)
- Karl-Heinz Herpel (October 1982 to August 4, 1985)
- Arnold Preuss (August 4, 1985 to May 31, 1995)
- Klaus Aden (May 31, 1995 to May 28, 1999)
- Rolf-Peter Lauxtermann (May 28, 1999 to May 16, 2003)
- Marion Zomerland (May 16, 2003 to June 15, 2017) and Arnold Preuß (since May 16, 2003)
- Arnold Preuß (since June 15, 2017)
Individual evidence
- ^ Theater am Meer - Niederdeutsche Bühne Wilhelmshaven eV , accessed on April 13, 2011
- ↑ a b c d e f g Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Vol. 1–3. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986-1987, volume 2, page 344 f.
- ^ Karl Veit Riedel: City Theater Wilhelmshaven, Landesbühne Niedersachsen-Nord, Niederdeutsche Bühne Wilhelmshaven. History and memories. Friesen-Verlag Willy Beutz, Wilhelmshaven 1983, page 144 f.
- ^ Theater am Meer: Liliom , accessed October 9, 2012
- ^ Theater am Meer: De Herr Puntila un sien Knecht Matti , accessed on October 9, 2012
- ^ Theater am Meer: 75 Years of Low German Theater , accessed on April 17, 2011
- ^ Cord Eberspächer: CHRONICLE of the Low German Stage Association of Lower Saxony and Bremen. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg, p. 116.
- ↑ Theater am Meer, Alleen in de Sauna
- ↑ theater at sea: Lüttstadtrevier , accessed on October 9, 2012
- ^ Theater am Meer: Theater school for children and young people , accessed on October 9, 2012
- ↑ Theater am Meer: Dat Meer-Hotel , accessed December 1, 2012
- ↑ Theater am Meer: The emergence of a mural , accessed on May 12, 2014
- ↑ Theater am Meer: Tööv, dat dat düster is , accessed on May 12, 2014
- ↑ Theater am Meer - Federal Cross of Merit. Retrieved March 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Theater am Meer: Toeerst de Familie. Retrieved July 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Theater am Meer: Toeerst de Familie. May 2018, accessed July 1, 2018 .
- ^ Theater am Meer: Board of Directors , accessed on June 23, 2017
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Coordinates: 53 ° 31 ′ 37.6 ″ N , 8 ° 6 ′ 52.6 ″ E