Altmark Theater

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Altmark Theater

The Theater der Altmark , TdA for short , officially also Landestheater Sachsen-Anhalt Nord, is a theater in the Altmark with headquarters in Stendal . It is a state stage with its own theater ensemble and productions in the areas of drama , children's and youth theater , puppet shows and music theater . It employs around 70 people and shows around 20 productions in over 500 performances per season. More than 65,000 viewers are reached annually.

The Altmark Theater (TdA) has a program that is close to the people. Under the direction of Artistic Director Wolf E. Rahlfs, the 2018/2019 program deals with current topics of social relevance under the motto “Longing”.

50 percent of its performances are given in external locations: the theater's play area includes the states of Saxony-Anhalt , Brandenburg and Thuringia and extends to Lower Saxony , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony . Every year in the summer months, the theater plays on an open-air stage in Arendsee . In terms of concerts, the theater cooperates with the Central German Chamber Philharmonic , and in music theater with the North Harz City Theater .

Young TdA and citizens' stage

A special focus is the involvement of the TdA in child and youth work under the direction of Cordula Jung: As part of theater education , play clubs for all ages and with different focuses are offered. Young TdA. Retrieved September 6, 2018 . In addition to promoting communication skills, theater and musical projects are developed and performed several times. The theater choir is also open to anyone interested and takes part in the company's musical productions. Project days for school classes, school visits and workshops in all grade levels as well as preliminary and debriefings for current productions round off the educational theater offer. The TdA performs “classroom pieces” that bring in well over 150 performances per season in both the Stendal and Altmark districts of Salzwedel .

Venues

The theater is located in the Hanseatic city of Stendal. The acting ensemble shows the productions on the one hand in the house at Stendaler Karlstraße 6, on the other hand in the houses of the guest performance partners or as a mobile production in schools, community centers and kindergartens. In addition to the established venues of the Stendaler Gerberhof and the ruins of the Arendsee monastery , unusual locations also serve as venues in the summer , such as the former Stendal JVA or orphaned industrial sites of former state- owned companies .

The "Big House" in Stendal has 556 places. The stage is ten meters wide and nine meters deep; the portal has a width of seven to nine meters and a height of up to 5.5 meters. The orchestra pit or the fore stage measures 5.40 meters by 10 meters.

The “Little House” has 99 seats and a variable stage. In the "peep box version" the stage is eight meters wide and just as deep, and the overall height is 4.6 meters. The total area of ​​the stage and audience area is 190 square meters.

The "Rangfoyer" has 81 seats and also a variable stage, which in the "peep box version" is 6.5 meters wide and six meters deep and has a height of 2.5 meters. The total area is 110 square meters.

The TdA also has the “Theater Pedagogical Center” (TPZ). Readings, discussions and recitals take place in the “Theatercafé” and “Kaisersaal”. The theater courtyard is also used for productions.

history

Regular guest performances by private and traveling theaters in Stendal have been documented since the middle of the 19th century. Towards the end of the 19th century, the “Hartjesche Local” theater established itself as a permanent venue.

The first own ensemble was created when the theater management Anton and Paul Ertl from Fürstenwalde moved to Stendal in the early summer of 1925 to set up a city theater with a clearly defined program and its own ensemble. Up until the 1928 season, this included classic and modern plays as well as boos and operettas. In the 1928/29 season, the theater director Anton Kohl not only introduced the new name "Altmärkisches Landestheater", but the theater was rebuilt and refurbished with public and private funds and reopened on October 19, 1929.

A few weeks after the end of the Second World War, on July 15, 1945, the city of Stendal's theater was reopened. By resolution of the Soviet military administration , the theater was founded on March 1, 1946 as a three-branch house with the art genres of opera, operetta and drama. In 1949 the name "Theater der Altmark", which is still valid today, was decided. The dilapidated state of the city theater made it increasingly difficult to operate the theater, and the financial means were lacking to renovate the half-timbered building. Finally, in 1956, the venue was closed by the building authorities, the ballroom of the Hotel "Schwarzer Adler" served as a replacement for a few months . A little later, the “Schauburg”, a former cinema in the Schadewachten, was opened as a new venue. A little later this was destroyed by a large fire, a building called "Haus Vaterland" or "Volkshaus" in Hallstrasse, which had been an entertainment establishment until 1945, served as the new venue. In 1968 the “Kaisersaal” theater café was created as an additional venue, and a new line of repertoire was established: “Theater in the Café”.

From 1971, the “Haus Vaterland” underwent a comprehensive reconstruction and expansion, with a spectator entrance on Karlstrasse and the construction of a new foyer, cloakroom and administration wing. In this context, new workshop buildings for carpentry, locksmithing, upholstery and painting room were also built. On December 19, 1975, the rebuilt building on Karlstrasse was finally reopened with the new performance venues Rangfoyer and Theatercafé. In 1986 the theater was renovated again for around one million marks - financed by the "Institute for Cultural Buildings of the GDR".

After the tribulations of the continuous implementation of the theater in the turning point of the architect Werner Rhunau of the theater of the Altmark was from 1992 to 1995 under the leadership once again a renovation and refurbishment instead. In the course of this, so-called “history windows” were built in that show parts of the original building. The former "House of Soviet Officers" in Moltkestrasse served as an interim venue with two stages. In 1994/95, the music and dance theater branches were closed in favor of the expansion of children's and youth theater and the theater for senior citizens.

From 2009 to 2012 Dirk Löschner was artistic director at the TdA, then, from 2012 to 2018, Alexander Netschajew. Under Netschajew's leadership, the “Young TdA” and “Citizens' Stage at the TdA” sections were created in 2013/14. In 2015, the Theater der Altmark received the Federal Theater Prize from Monika Grütters , Minister of State for Culture and Media, for its committed work . Wolf E. Rahlfs has been the new director since August 2018.

Well-known actors at the theater included Heinz Rühmann , Horst Tappert , Rolf Herricht , Helga Göring , Clemens Wilmenrod and Ezard Haußmann .

Collaboration and networking

The Central German Chamber Philharmonic gives symphony concerts in Stendal. Before that there was a cooperation with the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra . The musical theater co-productions of the two companies included Kiss Me, Kate (2011), Frau Luna (2012), Die Drei von der Gasstelle (2013), Maske in Blau (2014), Die Dreigroschenoper (2015) and Cabaret ( 2018). There is also a traditional collaboration with the Nordharzer Städtebundtheater for further performances of the music theater.

The Altmark Theater also works with local cultural institutions such as the Winckelmann Society , the socio-cultural center Kunstplatte eV, the Adam-Ileborgh-Haus music and art schools and the Frank Wedel music factory, but also with the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences .

Support association

The theater association supports the Altmark theater. The association primarily promotes youth work financially. He also helps with the purchase of urgently needed things that the house cannot finance from its budget. In addition, it annually awards the "Theater Prize of the Friends and Patrons of the Altmark Theater" in the categories of directing and acting as well as a special prize each.

literature

  • Dietmar Goergen (Ed.): Beginning - End - Beginning (history and present of the Altmark theater). Stendal 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait at landesbuehnen.de , accessed on November 8, 2015
  2. ↑ Central German Chamber Philharmonic. Retrieved October 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Music theater. Retrieved September 6, 2018 .
  4. ↑ With classroom pieces close to the student. Magdeburger Verlags- und Druckhaus GmbH, July 9, 2018, accessed on September 11, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Program, guests, information about the productions. Retrieved October 4, 2017 .
  6. ^ Martin Wiehle : Altmark personalities. Biographical lexicon of the Altmark, the Elbe-Havel-Land and the Jerichower Land (= contributions to the cultural history of the Altmark and its peripheral areas. Vol. 5). Dr. ziethen verlag, Oschersleben 1999, ISBN 3-932090-61-6 , p. 149.
  7. ↑ The theater development association needs you as a member! Retrieved October 4, 2017 .

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