Walhalla Theater

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Walhalla Theater is a term for private public theater that was popular around 1900. The term was widely known at the end of the 19th century because the Walhalla memorial, which opened in 1842, had become a kind of temple of German culture during the period of growing nationalism . The Walhalla theaters with their entertainment programs are in the balance between a confirmation of the Walhalla cult and a parody of it.

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Compared to the strong French competition in the field of theater production, which was particularly evident in the vaudevilles since the 1840s, the name expressed that “German” productions could be seen, as it was with the rise of the Berlin local posse and then the Viennese operetta had become possible.

Because the Walhalla Theater on Berlin's Charlottenstrasse (later Berlin Theater ) was very successful in its first time since 1869, the concept was copied several times. In 1890, a Walhalla Parody Theater was opened on Berlin's Oranienstrasse , which was to be devoted to parodies of popular works on the big stages. Walhalla Theater showed operettas , singing games and variety programs with dance and living pictures . They followed the increasing tendency towards circus-like programs with international artists. The director of the third Berlin Walhalla Theater from 1914, Bernhard Rose , tried his hand at "fatherland" productions again.

Examples

literature

  • Karl Hoppe, Hans Oppermann (ed.): Wilhelm Raabe. Complete Works, Vol. 2, 2nd revised and supplemented edition, obtained from Eberhard Rose, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1992, p. 634. ISBN 3-525-20164-8
  • Nic Leonhardt: Pictorial dramaturgy. Visual culture and theater in the 19th century (1869–1899), transcript, Bielefeld 2007, p. 320f. ISBN 978-3-89942-596-3