Waldbühne Kloster Oesede
The Waldbühne Kloster Oesede is an open-air stage in the Lower Saxon town of Georgsmarienhütte in the district of Osnabrück , which was built in 1951 by the former municipality of Kloster Oesede. Up to three musicals are currently performed here every year - divided into two evening plays and one children's play.
history
In 1951 the Waldbühne was opened by the former municipality of Kloster Oesede under the name Eichendorff-Bühne . Initially, open-air plays with classical adaptations such as Faust or Die Nibelungen as well as fairy tales such as Snow White were performed.
For financial reasons, however, the game had to be stopped in 1959. In the following years the stage therefore functioned as a place for sporting events and concerts.
After the Oesedes Monastery merged with four other rural communities to form the town of Georgsmarienhütte in 1970, the latter took over the open-air theater. In the following years the stage was mainly the scene of various rock festivals and concerts.
This use also ended at the beginning of the 1980s, so that the stage was not used for a few years before theater operations could be resumed in 1988 under the direction of Franz Breit; the first piece shown was the musical Oklahoma! ; In 1990, under the direction of Johannes Börger, the children's theater also came to the stage.
The “Waldbühne Kloster Oesede eV” association was founded in 2003 and has been operating under this name ever since. Since 2004, the evening piece has been enhanced by the live music of the Waldbühne band. Since then, the musicians under the direction of Georgi Gürov have delighted visitors in the evening pieces. In 2010, a German premiere was played for the first time with Betty and her sisters . The Waldbühne choir was directed by Angela Irnich until 2015 and also enriched all evening pieces musically. Pieces with up to eight voices were rehearsed for the hot corner . In 2015 Georgi Gürov handed over the musical direction and Angela Irnich the choir direction to Christian Tobias Müller.
For 2020, all events have been canceled due to the Covid 19 pandemic .
The Waldbühne Kloster Oesede is a member of the Association of German Open Air Theaters .
The stage
The forest stage is surrounded on all sides by deciduous trees; the wide auditorium, arranged on an incline, offers space for a total of 1200 spectators in 4 blocks with 16 rows of benches each. The live band, which accompanies the performance musically during the evening pieces, has a seat to the side of the stage.
2012 performance season
In the 2012 season, the German premiere of the Broadway musical A Wedding to Fall in Love (based on the 1998 film of the same name) took place on the Waldbühne . In addition, the St. Pauli musical Heiße Ecke , which has been performed at the Waldbühne since 2008, was played again. As a children's play, the musical Mirinda Zauberwind , developed by Markus Westermeyer for the Waldbühne, premiered this year . With around 29,000 spectators, the highest number of spectators so far was achieved this season.
2013 performance season
The children's play of the same name based on the novel Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner , a musical version of the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare and the revival of the hot corner were presented. This year the ensemble celebrated the 25th anniversary of the reactivation of the Waldbühne with the more than 500 members of the Waldbühne Kloster Oesede association .
2014 performance season
This season there was a children's play ( Der kleine Tag ), the evening play ( the old Romans were great with music by Stephen Sondheim under the alternative name conditions like in ancient Rome ) and the resumption of the hot corner .
2015 performance season
Then came the musicals How to become something in life without making an effort and the hot corner and the children's musicals Rabatz im Zauberwald and Gans or not at all! for the performance. Goose or not at all! (Music and text: Patrick Hehmann) is based on the fairy tale Die Gänsehirtin am Brunnen by the Brothers Grimm . It was performed as a Waldbühne winter musical by the youth ensemble of the Waldbühne Kloster Oesede in the auditorium of the secondary school in Georgsmarienhütte.
Performance season 2016
In addition to the long-running hot corner , the musical A Man Without Matter was performed by Stephen Flaherty (music) and Lynn Ahrens (lyrics). The highlight for the children was Jim Button and Lukas the Engine Driver , a musical by Christian Berg (book) and Konstantin Wecker (music) based on the presentation by Michael Ende . As a winter musical, the musical, premiered in 2012 at the Schmidt Theater , once upon a time - 7 fairy tales in one go , a fast-paced fairy tale mix by Martin Lingnau and Heiko Wohlgemuth , was on the program.
2017 performance season
New on the program were the musical Naturally Blond and the children's musical Rumpelstiltskin , based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. The witty retelling of the well-known fairy tale with text and music by Jan Radermacher was premiered in 2015 at the Brothers Grimm Festival in Hanau . For the tenth and last time, the St. Pauli musical Heiße Ecke was on the program. A new season record was set with 29,802 visitors. Little Red Riding Hood , in a new interpretation by Jan Rademacher, was performed as a winter musical by the youth ensemble in the auditorium of the Georgsmarienhütte secondary school.
Performance season 2018
In a first open-air stage performance, Zzaun! (Book: Tilmann von Blomberg, music and lyrics: Alexander Kuchinka ). Naturally Blond went into the second season. The adventure musical Robin Hood junior by Jan Radermacher and Timo Riegelsberger was new on the program.
Performance season 2019
The German adaptation of the family musical based on the movie Madagascar (book: Kevin Del Aguila, music and lyrics: George Noriega and Joel Someillan, German version: Christian Poewe) was on the program. The evening play was the musical Der kleine Horrorladen (German version: Michael Kunze ) based on the film Little Shop of Horror by Roger Corman . The winter musical staged by Christian Berg is based on the fairy tale Snow Queen by the Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article on the history in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung
- ↑ History on the website of the association (as of September 11, 2012)
- ↑ musical key - Little Women - Waldbühne Kloster Oesede Georgsmarienhütte. In: musicalzentrale.de. June 12, 2010, accessed December 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Article about the premiere
- ↑ Great fun guaranteed: "A wedding to fall in love with" in Kloster Oesede ( Memento from February 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The hot corner and a wedding to fall in love with bring a record season
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Waldbühnen winter musical celebrates its premiere in GMHütte
- ^ Danica Pieper: "Jim Button" on the Waldbühne Kloster Oesede. In: noz.de. June 5, 2016, accessed June 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Elbers: Last season for “Heiße Ecke”: Waldbühne starts Whitsun with Rumpelstiltskin. In: noz.de. June 1, 2017, accessed June 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Elbers: "Naturally Blond" continues in 2018: GMHütter Waldbühne with a new season record. In: noz.de. September 12, 2017. Retrieved September 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Vegetarian wolf: Little Red Riding Hood is the GMHütter winter fairy tale 2017. In: noz.de. October 13, 2017. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 '14.3 " N , 8 ° 6' 29.7" E