Brandheide theater brigade

The Brandheide Theaterwehr was a free German theater group that was founded in 1977 in the context of the anti-nuclear and peace movements .

Members of the ensemble included Verena Reichhardt, Enzo Scanzi, Jochen Fölster, Wolfram Moser, Werner Koller, Helen Kubel, Wolfgang Kragler and Helen Grabherr. The actors lived, worked and rehearsed as a community in a forester's house in the Prezell district of Wirl in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district of Lower Saxony . The troupe saw their artistic home in protest against the potential nuclear waste storage facility in Gorleben and therefore often played in the Republic of Free Wendland , but also gave guest appearances nationwide and in German-speaking European countries. The first self-developed production of the Theaterwehr was titled Hot Potatoes and was performed more than 120 times in Germany and Switzerland . This was followed by the pieces Police and Love, and in 1980 Ulli Richter is not Ulli Richter .

The Brandheide theater brigade was often portrayed in the media. For example, when she made a guest appearance in November 1978 with Hot Potatoes in Zurich , Radio Schwarzi Chatz - a pirate station from the local spontaneous scene - made a half-hour program about the group. On June 21, 1979, a performance of the same piece as part of the series Das kleine Fernsehspiel - studio program was broadcast in the evening program of ZDF . In addition, the Wendland Film Cooperative produced the 30-minute television documentary Theaterwehr Brandheide - About an independent theater group , which was broadcast in 1981 by Hessischer Rundfunk .

In retrospect, literary studies at that time differentiated between “politically oriented” (for example Peter Weiss ) and “more aesthetically arguing” (for example Peter Handke ) theater people and authors who tried to break up or modernize the forms of conventional theater. Within the first category, the Brandheide theater brigade is assigned to the so-called “target group theaters”.

Publications

• Norbert Klugmann ( Ed. ): Hot potatoes. The theater of the Theaterwehr Brandheide . Prometh, Cologne , 1979.
• Brandheide Theaterwehr and Norbert Klugmann : Police and love . Prometh, Cologne , 1980, ISBN 978-3-922-00932-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Angelika Blank: The world as a stage - on the death of Jochen Fölster . Published on wendland-net.de on March 15, 2013. Accessed on March 2, 2016.
2. ^ Reimar Paul: Protest on sandy ground . Published in Der Tagesspiegel on May 2, 2010. Retrieved from tagesspiegel.de on March 2, 2016.
3. ↑ Jürgen Krause: Hope for the big breakthrough . Published in Die Zeit on September 12, 1980. Retrieved from zeit.de on March 2, 2016.
4. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau , February 14, 1980.
5. ^ Badische Zeitung , February 21, 1980.
6. ↑ List of all productions of the Wendland Film Cooperative up to 1999 . Retrieved from bild-video-ton.ch on March 2, 2016.
7. ↑ Achim Klünder ( Ed. ): Lexikon der Fernsehspiele / Encyclopedia of television plays in German speaking Europe. 1978/87. Volume II. Image and sound carrier directories . Verlag Walter de Gruyter , Berlin , 1991, ISBN 978-3-598-10922-5 , page 39.
8. ↑ TV program for calendar week 25, 1979 . Published in Der Spiegel , № 25/1979, June 18, 1979, page 216. Retrieved from spiegel.de ( Spiegel Online ) on March 2, 2016.
9. ↑ List of all productions of the Wendland Film Cooperative up to 1999 . Retrieved from wfko.de on March 2, 2016.
10. ^ Gerd Müller: The literature of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German-speaking Switzerland . In: Viktor Žmegač ( ed. ): History of German literature from the 18th century to the present. Volume III / 2, 1945-1980 . 2nd edition, Beltz Athenaeum , Weinheim , 1994, ISBN 978-3-407-32115-2 , page 486.