Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg
Since 1952, Karl May's adventure novels as Karl May Festival are located in the limestone stadium of Bad Segeberg to the performance.
History
The early 1950s, decided to bring adventure novels as Karl May Festival in limestone stadium the city council of Bad Segeberg, Karl May. This was only used occasionally for years. True to the motto "A City plays Karl May " made many bathroom Segeberger as extras with, sewed costumes or supplied the horses. The horses, daytime brave plow horses were borrowed from the surrounding farmers and turned the evening into noble Mustangs. With 25,000 DM, the first production had to make do, whereas today there are several million euros.
The decision to stage materials straight from Karl May Kalkberg stadium would certainly not like when the work Mays in his native Saxony at that time would not have been culturally politically and ideologically ostracized ( early 50s ) by the GDR; so there was a choice from the desire to the outlaws in the Federal Republic of Germany to give a home, and also from the need to link the created by the Reich Labor Service oversized limestone stadium with an extremely popular author's name; a biographical reference such as is not Bad Segeberg to Radebeul.
In the 80s, the newly founded Kalkberg GmbH (Managing Director Ernst Reher ) was entrusted with the implementation of the Karl May Festival. During this time, Pierre Brice played as in the Karl May Winnetou films. On Pierre Brice Gojko Mitic followed in 1992 - the " Winnetou of the East" - as the main character and did not leave until 2006, his successor was from 2007, the Istanbul-born actor Erol Sander. . With him, most of the visitors were welcomed. At the end of the 2012 season, the collaboration was ended with Sander. Since January 2013 Sosniok stands as Indians on stage in Bad Segeberg.
For years there has been a tradition in Bad Segeberg to enhance the ensemble with one or more known guest stars: Wayne Carpendale, Tanja Szewczenko, Götz Otto, Saskia Valencia, Winfried Glatzeder, Volker Brandt, Patrick Bach, Tanja Schumann, Joshy Peters, Frank Schroeder, Alexandra Kamp, Reiner Schöne, Arthur Brauss, Horst Janson, Mathieu Carrière, Peter Hofmann, Elke Sommer, Ralf Wolter, Martin Semmel Rogge, Freddy Quinn, Mark Majowski, Lisa Fitz, Eva Habermann, Ingo Naujoks, Mola Adebisi, Dunja Rajter, Timothy Peach and Ingrid Steeger are just a few examples. After only one year (2008) as a director Krystian Martinek was replaced by Donald Kraemer in 2009. In the anniversary season in 2011 Nobert Schulze Jr. returned as a director back to the limestone mountain.