Grandstand (theater)
The grandstand was a theater on Otto-Suhr-Allee in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg ( Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district ) near Ernst-Reuter-Platz , which existed between 1919 and 2008 and was operated again briefly from September 2009 to 2011 .
The theater was one of the oldest existing private theaters in Berlin. The theater hall was originally the auditorium of a girls' high school built in 1915 by the architect Emilie Winkelmann and last had around 300 seats.
history
The grandstand was founded in September 1919 as a political expressionist theater. It opened with the plays The Savior and The Decision , both by Walter Hasenclever . The venue attracted greater attention with the world premiere of Ernst Toller's play Die Wandlung , in which Fritz Kortner played the leading role. It took place on September 30, 1919 under the direction of Karlheinz Martin . At this early time, readings by Else Lasker-Schüler and Stefan Zweig were also on the program. Dadaists like Raoul Hausmann , George Grosz , Richard Hülsenbeck , Walter Mehring and John Heartfield celebrated their public abuse. In December 1919 Eugen Robert took over the theater. As a result, the repertoire included not only serious theater literature but also more entertaining pieces.
1920 to 1945
In the 1920s, actors such as Paul Wegener , Marlene Dietrich , Adele Sandrock , Tilla Durieux and Heinrich George appeared in the stands. Alongside other directors, Erwin Piscator and Jürgen Fehling directed . After Eugen Robert's flight to London , the directors relied on pure entertainment theater, including with Rudolf Platte in the 1936/1937 season.
Between 1938 and 1945 the grandstand was closed several times and there was no regular match operation. In the last years of the Second World War , the stage was used by the Deutsches Theater .
On June 1, 1945, the grandstand was the first Berlin theater to be reopened by Viktor de Kowa after the Second World War . Was shown a cabaret program in the Conférence of Hildegard Knef . The audience also paid in kind such as groceries, briquettes, cigarettes or stockings.
Later Horst Buchholz , Wolfgang Kieling , Käthe Haack , Wolfgang Spier , Edith Hancke , Peter Thom and Klaus Sonnenschein also celebrated great successes.
Artistic development from the 1970s
The theater has received public grants since the 1970s. Klaus Sonnenschein took over the management of the theater from 1972 to 1997. Along with classics from Kleist to Shakespeare, tabloid comedies formed a programmatic focus.
After that, Ingrid Keller and Rainer Behrend shaped the profile of the grandstand as directors until 2006. Political-literary programs such as the critics' award-winning revue The Burned Poets , written by Behrend, now had a special place. Modern classics , socially critical pieces and comedies completed the program.
Artistic reorientation 2006–2008
From the end of 2006, the theater used the spelling "tribuene" for its own designation. During this time Corinna and Thomas Trempnau took over the management of the theater, and they hired director Helmut Palitsch as artistic director , who left the stands after six months.
The productions towards the end of this era in particular illustrate the wide range of content and forms of theater:
- Love by Alexej Schipenko
- Miss Julie by August Strindberg
- Tiergartenstraße 4 , by Christoph Klimke (music: Gernot Schedlberger ), written on behalf of the tribune, dealt with the euthanasia policy in Germany at the time of National Socialism (premiere),
- the musical Irma la Douce as well
- the boxer musical The fight of the century .
In addition, the small stage in the grandstand, the blue room , offered a multitude of readings, monologues and musical events.
For 2007 and 2008, 600,000 euros each were granted in subsidies from the budget of the State of Berlin. An application to continue this funding for 2009 and 2010 was rejected by the Berlin Senate , which made it impossible to continue the theater business.
Both the theater management and several employees are committed to maintaining the theater. The management accused the judging jury of not having adequately appreciated the development of the grandstand in the years following the generation change. After the last performance of the boxer musical The Fight of the Century , the theater was closed on December 31, 2008.
New directorship from 2009 to 2011
The director and author Gunnar Dreßler, who at that time was already running the theater in the basilica in Hamburg , took over the grandstand on August 1st, 2009. A few weeks later - at the same time as the grandstand's 90th birthday on September 20th - the theater started playing the world premiere of the play The Last Turns the Lights Out again. No public funding was planned, but the Senate paid the rent for the house until the end of 2009. On October 16, 2009, the play Keinohrhasen based on the film of the same name by Til Schweiger and Anika Decker premiered.
Dreßlers took over the dramaturgical concept for the grandstand with which he had already operated his theater in the basilica in Hamburg: contemporary spoken theater with an emphasis on sophisticated comedies and adaptations of films and novels of the present. In the 2011/2012 season, the theater had to stop operating again. The landlord made use of his right of termination because of the intention to sell. In the summer of 2015, the entrance area built onto the facade of the theater was demolished as part of the renovation of the Ottilie von Hansemann House .
Awards
- 1982: Silver Leaf of the Union of Dramatists
Web links
- Literature from and about tribune (theater) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ Off for the theater in the basilica. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 6, 2012
- ↑ The grandstand resumes play. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 4, 2009 ; Retrieved July 17, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. berlin-aktuell.de , July 17, 2009
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 51.2 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 6.9 ″ E