Wilhelm Theater (Lübeck)

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City map from 1910; the Wilhelm Theater is inscribed on the lower right (above the Lübeck lettering )

The Wilhelm Theater was a Lübeck theater .

history

The later Wilhelm-Theater was founded in 1867 by Johann Carl Heinrich Hoffmann , who later became director of the Kiel City Theater , as Viktoria-Theater , after the conditions for entertainment establishments in the suburbs had become much better three years earlier due to the lifting of the gate lock .

The theater building was erected in front of the Mühlentor on Am Brink Street (No. 9) in the suburb of St. Jürgen . The hall offered space for 700 spectators; a restaurant with a concert garden was attached to the theater.

In its early years, the Viktoria Theater was geared towards light entertainment. Mainly comedies , antics and operettas were performed . After Hoffmann moved to Kiel in 1878, operas were also included in the program under the changing directors of the period that followed, and Goethe's Faust was performed as early as 1879 . In 1888, the Victoria Theater in honor of the deceased was Emperor William I in Wilhelm Theater renamed.

In 1889 Emil Feldhusen took over the management of the Wilhelm Theater. More demanding pieces were performed under Feldhusen, including numerous dramas by Henrik Ibsen , Gerhart Hauptmann's Fuhrmann Henschel , Friedrich Schiller's Kabale and Liebe or Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm . In 1901 Reinhold Lütjohann began his stage career here .

On September 11, 1904, the last performance took place in the Wilhelm Theater. Feldhusen switched to the newly emerging theater in the town hall as director and director . The auditorium continued to be used as the ballroom of the theater's restaurant, which still existed, until the building was demolished in 1970 to make room for the residential building that is there today.

photos

  • Exterior view of the Wilhelm Theater

  • Auditorium of the theater

  • Johann Carl Heinrich Hoffmann

  • Emil Feldhusen

literature

  • Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg : Lübeck at the time of our grandparents, part II . Publishing house Gebrüder Borchers, Lübeck, 1933
  • Rolf König: The suburb of St. Jürgen . Schmidt-Römhild publishing house, 1998

Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 26.2 "  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 47.5"  E