Theater Manufactory Berlin

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Theater am Halleschen Ufer 2002, previously Schaubühne and theater manufacturer

The Theater Factory in Berlin was an active 1970-2007 free theater group in Berlin .

history

The group was founded in 1970 in West Berlin by seven Viennese and West German actors around Otto Zonschitz , Ilse Scheer , Michael Ben, Peggy Lukac , Elmar Gutmann and the musician Rudolf Stodola. Your production facility was a former chocolate factory in Neukölln from 1972 to 1982 . All members of the group were paid equal wages, a principle that has long been upheld. The stage was in the street, in the community center, in the gym, in the pub and in the theater. The ensemble traveled across Germany to perform pieces.

Most of the plays were written and staged by Zonschitz. The performances were seen as political theater , which worked through historical material from the peasant wars to the South American liberation struggle and presented it in a revue-like, didactic way. The ensemble became particularly famous for the piece 1848 (1973) on the soccer field on Chamissoplatz . This was followed by Johann Faustus (1977 in a more ornate version after the world premiere in 1974 in Tübingen ), Das Richtfest (1978), a commission from the Ruhr Festival , and Murieta (1979), a commission from the Stuttgart State Theater based on Pablo Neruda . Works by Bertolt Brecht , Peter Weiss and Johann Nestroy were also staged, as well as cabaret programs and recitals. In 1979 the Berlin Theater Manufactory received the DGB Culture Prize.

From 1982 to 1992 the group played as "Theater Manufactory on Halleschen Ufer" in the Schaubühne on Halleschen Ufer . After the fall of the Berlin Wall she lost the support of the Berlin Senate and had to leave the Schaubühne. Since 1993 without a permanent house, the members have now played at different venues and on tours, especially in Austria. Zonschitz died in 2005, Scheer in 2007. The theater manufactory's archive was taken over by the Austrian Theater Museum .

literature

  • Manfred Brauneck , Gérard Schneilin (ed.): Theater Lexicon 1. Terms and epochs, stages and ensembles. rowohlts enzyklopädie in Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1986, 5th completely revised new edition August 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-55673-9

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Le: The humanist as a traitor. For the world premiere of Hanns Eisler's “Johann Faustus” at the LTT . In: Tübinger Theaterchronik . April 11, 1974.

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