Urania Theater
| Urania Theater | |
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| Address: | Platenstrasse 32 |
| City: | Cologne |
| Coordinates: | 50 ° 56 '50 " N , 6 ° 55' 19" E |
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| Opened: | 7th November 2017 |
| Spectator: | 600 seats |
The Urania Theater is a theater in the Ehrenfeld district of Cologne .
The Die Lichtburg cinema was opened in 1930 on the site of the former Rhenania Hall . In 1935 it was renamed Ehrenfelder Volkskino and in 1939 Volks-Lichtspiele. Rebuilt after World War II, it reopened as the Rio Theater on September 15, 1953 . It was able to hold on to around 600 places until 1968. After it was closed as a cinema, the front part of the house was used as a supermarket. A day-care center moved into the rear half, which is still reminiscent of the cinema of the 1950s.
In autumn 1985 Claudia Howard and Kurt Lambrigger opened the Urania Theater, Cologne's first district theater. The former Rio cinema is located in an old working-class neighborhood in Ehrenfeld. The Urania Theater also received the 1st Cologne Theater Prize in 1990 for the performance of "Sindbadland" by Gerold Späth, directed by Kurt Lambrigger. Martin Armknecht and Katy Karrenbauer began their acting careers here. Also Mariele Millowitsch played here and ran the house for a short time. In 1993 the Urania Theater was closed.
In 1997, the Arkadas Theater, founded by Necati Sahin, moved into the building on Platenstrasse. In 2003 the Arkadaş Theater won the Cologne Children's and Youth Theater Prize. At the beginning of the 2006/2007 season, the Stage of Cultures sponsoring association took over the operations and programmatically developed it into a guest performance stage with an intercultural focus. In June 2017, the theater was put on the culture red list by the German Cultural Council and classified in category 1 (threatened with closure). On July 31, 2017, the theater ended at its traditional location in Cologne-Ehrenfeld.
In October 2017 the Ensemble Phoenix Bühnenspielgemeinschaft under the direction of Bettina Montazem, Richard Bargel and Frank Oppermann rented the space and gave the theater its old name Urania-Theater. The new opening took place on November 7, 2017 with a production by Mother Courage .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urania Theater to be the successor to the “Bühne der Kulturen” article published by the Kölnische Rundschau on October 20, 2017. Accessed on October 23, 2017
- ↑ Cinema details Description on köln-im-film.de. Retrieved October 23, 2017
- ↑ The actress and the Urania Theater Cologne The Urania Theater on claudia-hoffmann.de. Retrieved October 23, 2017