Theater Lindenhof

The theater Lindenhof is an independent theater in the Swabian Alb in Baden- Württemberg. It was in the rural town of less than 1,000 inhabitants Melchingen 1981 - since the local government reform of 1973 a district of Burladingen - founded. The premises of the theater are on the property is a converted restaurant on site - the former Linde - housed. Apart from the regularly scheduled performances and programs where the ensemble at the Lindenhof occurs occasionally outside in open air productions, guest performances in partner theaters or theater festivals.

The cultural project as the first and only regional theater in Germany in force is funded by the State of Baden- Wuerttemberg and three counties. It has theater partnerships with 16 cities in Baden-Württemberg. His legal form after the theater Lindenhof is a foundation since January 1, 2011.

In addition to productions of their own songs, cabaret and other minor arts programs, musical performances and other, partly experimental stage events, but also (often Swabian ) interpretations of theater or literature classics and read productions to the representational repertoire of the theater.

Ensemble

Is headed by Bernhard Theater Hurm (Director ), Stefan Mayer Hall (co - director ) and Brigitte Wagner ( Commercial Management ); next to these is still Uwe Zellmer on the board of the Foundation. The ensemble consists of about 16 men and women and 20 to 30 freelancers. Many members of the ensemble are not set to a specific form of cooperation. Some of them fill both as an author as well as actor or director, sometimes one, sometimes the other function, such as next to Uwe Zellmer and Bernhard Hurm especially Franz Xaver Ott, Dietlinde Alsatian or Ida Ott. Also participating are musicians like Sven Bernhard Goetz and Mohl or composers like Susanne Hinkelbein who have obtained on the theater Lindenhof beyond a certain level of recognition. Some Lindenhof- actor also received outside the theater sporadic engagements as a performer or performers in various film and television productions of German public TV stations; among them Peter Höfer Mayer and Berthold Biesinger.

In addition, full-time and volunteer staff come ( for example responsible for technology, lighting, sets, props, management and other organizational tasks) backstage

History

Originating from an originally founded in Reutlingen free school theater group of leftist cultural spectrum was the theater Lindenhof 1981 - first as a registered association - ( Germanized sense: Are we real men or not) in Melchingen with the production Semmer guys or koine opened in the renovated Linde. The initially difficult financial situation could be compensated over the years, so the theater increasingly independent of the revenue of the alongside continuing gastronomic operation was ("Theater Pub " and " theater restaurant" were in the first years of common nickname for the theater Lindenhof ).

Apart from the written, composed, or otherwise originally written by the ensemble Leaders Bernhard Hurm, Uwe Zellmer, Franz Xaver Ott, Susanne Hinkelbein or Dietlinde Alsatian even productions of Lindenhof has with productions for templates of Maria Beig, Sebastian Blue ( pseudonym of Joseph Eberle ), Bertolt Brecht, Georg Büchner, Miguel de Cervantes, Brian Friel, Max Frisch, Werner Fritsch, Robert Gernhardt, Peter Härtling, Friedrich Hölderlin, Odon von Horvath, Felix Huby, Henrik Ibsen, Walter Jens, Heinrich von Kleist, Heiner Kondschak Franz Xaver Kroetz, Ingrid Lausund, Molière, Sean O'Casey, Sebastian Sailer, Friedrich Schiller, Martin Schleker, Karl Schönherr, Werner Schwab, William Shakespeare, Thomas Strittmatter, Kress man Taylor, Thaddeus Troll Karl Valentin and Kurt Wilhelm in now over 30 years into a "home theater, as nowhere else exists" ( TIME ) was developed. According to a survey in November 2008 found by then 5000 events with about 1.1 million viewers instead.

The theater as well as individual members of the ensemble have received numerous awards and prizes (for details see below), including the National Theatre Prize of Baden -Württemberg, the Theatre Prize of Stuttgarter Zeitung, the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the city of Tübingen and the Cabaret Award of Baden -Württemberg. It has thus far from the metropolis developed a theater that has brought the Swabian language and the dialectic between home and country at the center of his productions. Often it is the marginal figures, the outsider that brings the popular theater in world premieres to the stage.

Nationally become known performances and pieces

Attention National acquired the theater makers with outdoor productions on the life of Friedrich Hölderlin and the theater walk Die Winterreise ( reissue title: Melchinger Winterreise ), the Peter Härtling wrote for the Lindenhof, as well as the staging of a ride and the space vanishes (1999 /2000). Alternating with the Zimmertheater Tübingen and the State Theater, the Theater Tübingen Lindenhof shares the responsibility for the annual summer theater production in the 24 km northern county and university town of Tübingen.

Some productions were recorded by the SWR and 3sat and included in the broadcast TV program.

The authored by Bernhard Hurm and Uwe Zellmer, and for the history of Lindenhöfler legendary force so-called " witches piece " Night or day, or now, a listed as a timeless political and socio-ethical parable first 1984 drama set against the historical background of early modern witch hunts, learned in 1995, directed by Andreas Morell entitled Hexenfeuer an independent film. This piece was in his theater version so far the only Lindenhof- production, with the occured the ensemble with guest appearances in non -German speaking countries ( in 1988 in the northern Italian city of Parma, in Russian - Soviet at the time - capital of Moscow, as well as in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan and the former Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic). In November 1996 was night or day, or now also a contribution in Politics in Independent Theater, one of the Federal Agency for Civic Education ( bpb) about every 3 years, organized theater festival, which took place in Bremen in 1996.

Back in 1993, the theater Lindenhof was represented by the folk play Polenweiher after a presentation of the playwright Thomas Strittmatter at this festival in Dresden. Another contribution of the Lindenhof ensembles for the fourth festival Policy outdoor theater was in November 1999 in Stuttgart with the Melchinger Winterreise by Peter Härtling.

At the International Theatre Festival of World Theatre, which took place in Stuttgart in 2005, steered the Lindenhof theater with the play Swabia Blues by Felix Huby the only German contribution.

In May 2013 came with the premiere of with a historical reference to Mössinger general strike of 1933 written piece A village in resistance by Franz Xaver Ott in Mossingen to another nationally respected theater highlight of the Lindenhof. The implementation of the listed until the fall of about 20 times before a packed house stage work on the Germany 's first collective act of resistance against the Nazis in power was under the patronage of Winfried Kretschmann, the incumbent since May 2011 the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg. In addition to the ensemble cast of the theater Lindenhof had over 100 amateur actors with citizenship from the Mössingens. Apart from the ideas listed in the old Pausa, a former factory hall Mössinger the piece in June 2013 was also a contribution to the program at the prestigious Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen. ( see also sub-section in the article for Mössinger general strike )

Prizes and awards

Throughout its existence, the theater Lindenhof received as such, or even individual productions or ensemble members of the theater following prizes and awards: