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The Moon Palace of pan - Eickelmann is a popular theater in the Ruhr. Was opened the theater on 28 January 2004 by Christian Stratmann, brother of comedian Ludger Stratmann. Along with this he had the Stratmanns Stage Europe home operated until the end of 2003 in Essen, to favor the lunar palace but withdrawn. In an interview with the Welt am Sonntag Stratmann declared in early 2005 that the aim of the theater is the regional performance pieces with a solid ensemble. This is a unique feature in comparison with a guest house as his brother's. Stratmann declared a thematic focus: "We primarily serve clichés. Typical Ruhr staff as the mountain man, the pigeon fancier, the pub landlady and the football occur " with us.
The theater is located in the municipal hall building (formerly Imperial Hall and City Garden Hall ) of the town garden in Herne district tub ( separate town until 1975 Pan- Eickelmann ). Wilhelmian nouveau originated in 1911 and has experienced a long history of theater ever since. By Kurt Seiffert in the 1920s, about Zarah Leander to add Theo Lingen and Maria Schell here were many theater greats on the boards that mean the world. The house itself is wilhelminischem main house and a post-modern foyer own a piece Ruhr architecture between tradition and modernity. The house has 500 seats, a much larger capacity than other popular theater as the Ohnsorg Theater in Hamburg and the Millowitsch Theater in Cologne. More than 180,000 visitors in the first three years, make it loud Stratmann the largest folk theater in Germany ..
The most famous and successful staging of the Moon theater is the comedy shown since the opening " Ronaldo and Juliet". Thematically inspired by the Shakespearean drama Romeo and Juliet tells the piece of two families who operate in Wanne- Eickel wall to wall each pub. While the Montakowskis but the football club FC Schalke 04 attach, cheer the Kapulinskis calculated for Borussia Dortmund. Traditionally, the followers of these associations are strong enemies (see also: Revierderby ), so that the developing love between the royal blue Roland " Ronaldo " Montakowski and the black and yellow Julia Kapulinski is under an unlucky star. The love between the two will override the hostility? For the 500th performance on 17 October 2007 even ex- Schalke manager Rudi Assauer took a brief cameo.
More pieces of the moon palace include " On the wild Rita " - a romantic comedy in the harbor bath - " Wat ne wonderful world " - a musical journey through 50 years of Ruhr - and the crime comedy " Selbs in debt ." Are written the pieces usually by the Ruhr -author Sigi Domke, director of the House Thomas Rech Since this is contract work, the pieces are usually seen only in the Moon Palace itself. In the past there were only individual guest appearances such as with the play " On the Wild Rita " on the North Sea island of Norderney or " Ronaldo and Julia " in Dortmund.
The Moon Palace is the godfather of the football stadium of the DSC Wanne -Eickel. The stadium Sportpark pan -South since 9 August 2009 called Moon Palace Arena.