Carl-Schultze-Theater

The Carl- Schultze Theatre was a theater in Hamburg.

Originally it was just a garden restaurant with a summer stage, which bore the name " Joachimsthal ," it was the long series (now Reeperbahn ) of St. Pauli, at the border to the neighboring town of Altona. In 1858 Carl Schultze leased together with a Compagnon the local, extended, and embellished it. Soon he was the sole owner, had a roof over the all weather conditions establish open venue and led them under different names. ( " St. Pauli Tivoli and folk garden ", " St. Pauli Tivoli - Theater" and by 1863 " Carl Schultze's summer theater, formerly the St. Pauli Tivoli - Theater". ) After also winter performances were made ​​possible by a new building is from 1865 to the official name " Carl Schultze 's Theater ".

In the first time Carl Schultze Directorate (1860-1874), the Low German comedy and the Hamburg folk play flourished at his theater. Particular success had parodies of pieces that were played in the Hamburg theaters. Meyerbeer's opera Dinorah 1860 found its counterpart in Johann Peter Lyser Linorah or the pilgrimage to the oil mill. In Louis Schöbels Faust and Margarethe Margarethe was Gounod's opera parodies. Julius Stinde contributed under the pseudonym David Hersch to parody a genre parody Wagner: Lohengrün or Elsche of Veerlann. Schultze himself appeared as an actor on in Low German roles and had in these pieces triumphant success as a " class Melkmann " and as the horse servant " Deuwel " who defended the old order against fist, barbers, who advocates the freedom of trade. With him playing Heinrich children, Lotte Mende, Arnold Mansfeldt, Johanna treasure, Louis Schindler, Louis Mende, among others

Particularly successful was the theater with Stindes dialect piece Hamburger suffering that was played on tour throughout Germany.

1885 dissolved the Low German ensemble at the Carl Schultze Theatre. Karl Theodor Gaedertz writes: "Now the Low German comedy has disappeared from the stage world, the little band of the performers was after their Berlin triumphs kept together for some time by the head, and here and there she won new laurels; then broke up the band! and the incomparable ensemble fell apart. thus waned a strong hope for the friends and admirers of sass language. " Lotte Mende went to the Residenz Theater (Berlin), Heinrich children was engaged at the Hamburg Stadttheater. Carl Schultze gave the management of his theater into other hands, then on high German operettas were listed there.

Beginning in 1885 operettas were performed in focus. 1888-1900 the house was performed by opera tenor José Ferenczy. The theater was until 1904 as one of the best operettas and experienced many successful Vorstellungen.1931 to 1920 the house was converted into a cinema and closed shortly thereafter.