Waldbühne
The forest stage in Berlin ( in the time of National Socialism: Dietrich Eckart Open-Air Stage, named after Dietrich Eckart, an early supporter of National Socialism and ideas of Adolf Hitler ) is an open-air stage. It lies at the western end of the Olympic Park Berlin in the Westend district of Charlottenburg- Wilmersdorf and can accommodate 22,000 spectators. She was visited at peak times annually by over 500,000 people.
History
Period of National Socialism
The Berlin forest stage was built during the construction of the Olympic Games from 1936 to the northwest of the former Reich Sports Field on a bulge of Murellenschlucht at the south end of the flow field Ruhleben by the architect Werner March, designed by Robert Conrad Heidenreich. Heidenreich was at that time on the staff of Werner March and had performed for the design of the forest stage studies including Italy. The Murellenschlucht forms a natural basin between the Murellenberg and the northern foothills of the Pichel mountains and the plateau of the widths mountain, on whose slopes the stands were built high and on which the former Olympic site is located. The system as so-called " Thing - stage" is based on the ancient Greek theater at Epidaurus. How rise in ancient arenas seat ranks with the distance from the stage increasingly what the acoustic benefits. East of the stage close to the Olympic Park Berlin belonging to the building of the Maifeld, the Langemarckhalle and the bell tower.
The original plan provided at the request of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels accommodate 100,000 spectators. During the Olympic Games in 1936 several performances took place there, including the opera Hercules and the Thing game were shown francs Würfelspiel. Furthermore, the stage was the venue for the Olympic competitions in gymnastics.
Postwar and 1960s
After the Second World War, the theater was called the Forest Stage. First, it served as an open air cinema ( and Others Venue of the Berlinale ), then it was used for boxing matches. In the 1960s, war damage was repaired. From 1961 it was used primarily for rock concerts.
On September 15, 1965 came after a Rolling Stones concert riots: concert-goers who were disappointed by the short duration of the concert, demolished the benches and fought over four hours long fights with the police, which began even water cannons. The material damage amounted to approximately DM 400,000, in addition, also S- Bahn cars were damaged. The forest stage was only seven years later repaired, but then hardly used because concert organizers preferring closed halls, as they were weatherproof. The riots were critically commented in the GDR, and together with the Leipzig Beat Demo to extensive restrictions of the Beat movement and thus of youth culture in the GDR.
Presence
In March 1981, the concert promoter Peter Schwenkow and Jochen acquired quarrel with her former company concert concept of the exclusive right to use the forest stage and took them back into operation. 1982, the current tent structure was installed above the stage.
Meanwhile, the stage is in the months of May to September, a popular place for rock, pop and classical concerts. Seasonal highlight each year is the sold out months in advance performance of the Berlin Philharmonic. Cult had the screenings ( " cinema in the forest stage ") of the Blues Brothers and the Rocky Horror Picture Show, to which thousands annually fans came with loud singing along in disguise. For several years this theater events but do not take place, with the exception of a poorly attended in 2006.
As part of a new tender by the Berlin Senate, the listed company CTS Eventim AG has been awarded the contract for the Berlin open-air stage in September 2008 and is the forest stage operate from 2009 and until at least the end of 2012. Through the partnership of this website with the residents in the neighborhood football Bundesliga club Hertha BSC came on 10 April 2010 at a novelty: the first time a Premier League game was in the history of the forest stage (Hertha BSC VfB Stuttgart) from neighboring Olympic Stadium broadcast live in the forest stage. A new edition saw this idea for its use, as on May 12, 2012 in the absence of adequate public viewing places in Berlin, the main sponsor of Borussia Dortmund anmietete the forest stage in order to have traveled tens of thousands from all parts of Germany fans to participate in the DFB Cup final allow.
In July 2012, here is the grand slam of men and women of the FIVB World Tour was held in beach volleyball.