Tingel-Tangel Theater

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Berlin memorial plaque on house at Kantstrasse 12, in Berlin-Charlottenburg
Wild stage from outside in the Theater des Westens building

The Tingel-Tangel-Theater in the basement of the Theater des Westens in Berlin was founded in 1931 by Friedrich Hollaender . From 1921–1923 the “Wilde Bühne” founded by Trude Hesterberg existed in these rooms, which was one of the most important entertainment venues in Berlin along with numerous other cabarets of the time such as Schall und Rauch , the Café megalomania and the catacomb .

Many prominent stars, or who were to become one, came and went on Kantstrasse. Whether in the audience or on the stage, including: Curt Bois , Margo Lion , Oskar Karlweis , Bertolt Brecht , Erich Mühsam , Paul Graetz , Wilhelm Bendow , Walter Gross , Hermann Vallentin , Blandine Ebinger , Walter Lieck , Marlene Dietrich , Theo Lingen , Kurt Gerron , Trude Berliner , Rosa Valetti , Hans Hermann Schaufuss , Kate Kühl , Hedi Schoop , Victor Palfi , Toni van Eyck , Günther Lüders , Dora Gerson etc.

Beginning of the Wild Stage

In 1921 Trude Hesterberg founded the Wilde Bühne together with Hans Janowitz , Walter Koppel , Leo Heller and Walter Mehring . In the opening program, alongside Hesterberg (artistic director) a. a. the not yet known Kurt Gerron . The compositions were by Werner Richard Heymann . In 1923 Margo Lion made her debut here together with Oskar Karlweis with Die Linie der Mode . On November 16, 1923, a huge fire broke out in the morning and left everything in ruins. The cause is said to have been a wrong fuse that triggered a cable fire. Trude Hesterberg lacked the strength to rebuild. Wilhelm Bendow stayed and reopened it in February 1924 with his successful Tütü . Many from the Hesterberg ensemble were there again.

Highlight of the theater

The visit of King Amanullah from Afghanistan to Berlin, whose visit is said to have cost around one million marks, caused a stir . One day later, Trude Hesterberg as Soraya and Kurt Gerron as King Amanullah are on stage. A short time later the cabaret is closed.

Tingel-Tangel Theater

In 1931 the stage was revitalized by Friedrich Hollaender , who opened the "Tingel-Tangel-Theater" here. In 1932 he had the Nibelungen room in the immediate vicinity torn away in order to create more seats. Friedrich Hollaender, who wrote numerous revues for Rudolf Nelson , finally has his own stage and calls it Tingel-Tangel, on which his so-called "revuettes" can be found.

Actually there are only two revues. In autumn 1931 "Spuk in der Villa Stern" appeared with the songs "The Jews are to blame", "Die Kleptomanin", "Der Spuk personally" and "Münchhausen" every evening at 9:15 pm in 17 disguises and one year later "Höchst Eisenbahn" with the chansons "Die Notbremse" and "The Chanson about the wrong train" by Marlene Dietrich. When Marlene Dietrich came back to Berlin for her first visit from America in December 1930, she was sitting in the front row of the Tingel Tangel on the first evening of January 7, 1931. After the long break, she gave in to the thunderous demand of the audience, went on stage and sang her world hits from the "Blue Angel", which came from Hollander's pen. Hollaender accompanied them on the piano. She made a special impression on the critic and journalist Manfred Georg with Hollaender's "If I could wish for something". It was the first time that she sang her and his hits from the Blue Angel in Berlin in front of a public audience. After that there was no stopping, Marlene met with ovations: "Hi Marlene!" And "Bravo Marlene!".

Friedrich Hollaender left Germany in 1933. Curt Bois and Trude Berliner went to the United States and tried to continue their careers there. Trude Berliner, who rose to prominence as Gertrude Berliner as a child star in film (Adaments last race in 1917), plays a baccarat player together with Curt Bois at the side of Humphrey Bogart in " Casablanca " 1942. Blandine Ebinger passes the stage on for a short time. The cabaret on Kantstrasse will now be more harmless and adapted and will be continued by Gustav Heppner .

End of the theater

On May 10, 1935, it was over for the theater. Walter Gross is arrested by the Gestapo directly from the cabaret because of a political statement and is sent to the Esterwegen concentration camp , as are Günther Lüders and Walter Lieck. Walter Gross and Günther Lüders leave the camp again and are convicted and are banned from working. Walter Lieck dies in 1944 of abducted blood poisoning as a result of his six-month imprisonment in the Esterwegen concentration camp in 1935.

Literature on the Tingel-Tangel Theater and the Wild Stage

  • Trude Hesterberg : What else I wanted to say. Autobiographical notes ... . Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1971.
  • Friedrich Hollaender (author), Volker Kühn (ed.): From head to toe. Review of my life . Structure of the Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-7466-1688-3 .
  • Alan Lareau: Tingel-Tangel: In search of Friedrich Hollaenders cabaret. In: Nils Grosch (editor); Aspects of modern music theater in the Weimar Republic. Münster 2004, pages 288–334.
  • From Wilder Bühne, Tingel-Tangel and Tütü. Cabaret in the Theater des Westens . In: Renée Meyer-Brede (Ed.): 100 Years of Theater des Westens, 1896–1996 . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-549-05598-6 .
  • Friedrich Hollaender with his Tingel-Tangel-Theater. In: Karin Ploog: ... When the notes learned to run ... Volume 2: Cabaret-Operetta-Revue-Film-Exil light music until 1945. Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7347-5316-9 , pages 295-298 .

Theater revue

  • Friedrich Hollaenders Tingel Tangel by James Edward Lyons, premiere 2011 Vaganten stage, Kantstrasse 12, Berlin.

In the Berlin Kantstrasse 12, where eighty years earlier Friedrich Hollaender opened his legendary Tingel Tangel Theater, a young man pulls open a mysterious cellar door and finds himself in the colorful (alp) dream world of the 30s in Germany. For him it will be a dangerous race against time. With his revue, director James Edward Lyons conjures up musical spirits at the historic site of Hollaenders, from ancestors to hysterical goats, and in doing so recreates the apocalyptic mood before the Nazis came to power.

Original theater programs in private ownership

  • Friedrich Holländers Tingel Tangel: Spook in Villa Stern . Berlin 1931.
  • Friedrich Holländers Tingel Tangel: Theater bill with program sequence. Berlin 1931.
  • from FW Dührkoop (Tingel Tangel management): Be a little happy . Berlin 1935.

Web links

Commons : Tingel-Tangel-Theater  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ With Tingel Tangel to Berlin in the 1920s. In: Berliner Kurier . October 14, 1999, accessed August 19, 2015 .
  2. ↑ http://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/grundseite/grundseite.php?id=hest1892
  3. ^ Trude Hesterberg: The "Wild Stage". In: Art and Society. Essays and personal testimonials. On the 25th anniversary of the Henschel Verlag , Berlin / GDR 1974, pp. 183–195