. The mühlhäuserTheatergeschichte ... ... So Smiley says that Mulhouse was not really a theater story ... because the city never had a real theater had ...,
but we like it we'll see not all that closely and see if the Mühlhäuser had to do but to do with the theater.
Since there were already 1601, the first dramatic performances of the urban high school in the Divi-Blasius church, actually singing or more shows with religious content.
And then there was a wide variety of plays that were performed by traveling actors to fairs and festivals.
then the Council in 1721 forbade performances of "buffoon" because they threatened the morality and ethics.
served In 1800 the upper floor of the house on the Upper meat market Theatre Hall, where then was also performed by traveling show "great theater." 1801 visited Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who made the trip here on the north station, with his son August, such a play in the meat house and was of the "farce" deeply disappointed.
But not only in the meat house, even in the new gazebo at the lower market and the larger restaurants - the "eagle" and the "Swan" - used for theater performances of traveling companies.
founded in 1806 Mühlhäuser "Friends of the play" a theater club. The performances were then mostly in the lower market Bürenhof instead, where up to 120 seats were available.
1839 had the new Theatre Association Concordia then already 110 members, so that was no longer sufficient with the other visitors to the Bürenhof.
The educated people now wanted to read the plays of Goethe and Schiller not only can see as well.
opened in 1840, the brothers Muthreich from the castle to the "Berliner Hof", which soon with its ballroom to the "theater" was the Mühlhäuser. found here in the ".. the biggest and most prestigious concert, theater and ball-establishment ..." the city, theater performances of various kinds take place. Where the level is not necessarily good at the court theater of that time reaches.
1885, as the comedy in 5 acts "Roderick Heller" performed by Fr.von Beautiful Than in 1894, and the drama Maria Stuart, and given as compensation, the musical farce "The wild cat" is provided.
A visitor who was in the court theaters of the residence cities more used to write level, then, that ".. the only stove in the room around him a large heat radiated, while the rest of the room was freezing cold and the people Coats . kept on the play before and during the breaks, the City Band played and the visitors packed their fat and Käsebemmen out ..! .. " The
Urban Education Association then tried more level in the selection enforce and so were also pieces of Hauptmann, Ibsen and Sudermann and even operas. was installed
When, in the theater, the electric light shone, according to ad here ".. the rooms in the glow of hundreds of electric bulbs .."
was able to feststelllen also the dialect poet Georg Wolff on the fiftieth anniversary of the trade association:
".. Welcome to what I call young and old,
de Börger here us our Schaadt,
their ven in the polished hall,
in Schauschpielhuus gathered HAHT .."
In 1926 the theater was closed because of structural deficiencies before, was 1927, even as a cinema with 940 seats in the same year and was finally closed.
now found the theatrical performances held on Protecting Mountain and the city reported in 1927 that the seven performances of the Central German State Theatre - an anecdote, four comedies, a drama and a tragedy - a good criticism heard. 1928 then reported yet on the positive development of the city's orchestra, which appeared with his concerts and on the firing Barg.
1920 was in the imperial court of Mühlhäuser Theatre Association was founded, who wanted to contribute to raising the level of theater in the city.
were in the twenties, it is especially the operettas, which were in addition to plays and comedies for performance, but also socially critical plays, for example, by Gerhart Hauptmann, were listed.
But the interest seems to be the early thirties to have abated, as the Gotha guest gave their last performance here in 1932.
Only in 1938 was then organized on a KDF Theaterring a regular visit of the Gotha theater and until 1942 was again the first play and that the "Bird Seller" section.
played an important role at that time Sternau artists games in the Locust Street 9 am Blobach.
really bad reputation in the Mühlhäuser something, because here there were vaudeville events, where, with the artistic, dance, and vocal performances kaberettistischen sometimes the frivolous was expressed.
were of course here then besoders the soldiers of the Mühlhäuser to find garrison when they were starting
was after 1945, again the shooters hill, in the later as "People's Garden", the performances of the Municipal Theater, from Eisenach, and Nordhausen took place. Many Mühlhäusergehörten now ring at the theater and visited zealously our spectacular plays, dramas, operas and operettas.
went Despite the end of the fifties the number of visitors from 30,000 in 1959 to 16,000 back in 1961.
One reason was apparently the newly built theater in the Holy City to which organized the theater ring now regular buses.
But the concerts were the beginning of the Stadtorchsters rich encouragement. So do their Mühlhäuser Music Festival in 1949 and later there were still many public concerts, which were well attended.
was already in the past few years the swan pond hall for the Theater performances have been increasingly used. A Renaissance then experienced the "cultural center swan lake" after the extensive reconstruction in 1967, opened with a gala concert of the state Lohorchesters Sondershausen.
with "Nabucco" was then the first theatrical performance at the newly constructed house. According to the ideas presented
the tram Mühlhäuser additional emergency vehicles with trailer ready, but in 1968 then went no more car to the upper town and lower town, the line was shut down 1969th
was in 1953 at the giant Inger Berg - the now-Thomas Munzer-Park said - a generous Outdoor stage emerged.
found here in addition to operas, operettas and plays, also held a variety of fixed and large events and in fine weather were also film shows well here besucht.Der Park was designed in part new and the restaurant "parking" has now run by the HO Mühlhausen . Actually, were the institutions that were visited by the likes Mühlhäuser. The three large meadows were hard on the weekends often the target of an Sonntagsauflug where you could relax comfortably brought with coffee and cake.
found in 1974 by Thomas Munzer-park the fifteenth of the Workers' Festival East of the district of Erfurt, Germany. The parking garage has been upgraded and expanded, as are the open-air stage on the folk art groups from Germany and abroad occurred and where the play "Thomas Munzer" performed by Friedrich Wolf was. 
Gradually it was always quiet in the theater world Mühlhäuser. now drove the Mühlhäuser mainly to Heiligenstadt or Nordhausen in the theater, where after all better conditions for actors and visitors passed. As was
then in 1991 the amateur theater founded 3K, you saw the whole thing as a temporary thing, but now they have the show with a new stadium in the Kilianikirche quite blossomed and has become a widely recognized organization.
Last year, then again ... a major event, the Polish State Opera Steittin brought to the market under the opera "Nabucco" in Italian original version of the performance.
The sold-out show was something very special, even if the flat seats on the court was not always given the best view .., especially when sitting in front of a big opera fan a special reducer ..
1899 was the first "special screening of living photographs .. .." in "Weymar basement rocks in derSpielbergstraße and although the admission price of 30 pfennig to 1 mark was, the ideas were well attended.
1907, then opened on Steinweg 81, the first cinematograph theaters and more films soon followed in various restaurants and from 1909 even in the "white wall".
1910, the local police instructed to inspect the theatrical performances, because in the dark ".. when the two sexes are sitting close together, offensive things have happened ..."
found in 1917 then in the light show at the Palace Theater site ideas instead, the ticket price was NIS 100 6o penny.
1927, then the new Central Palace with 800 seats opened on the site. Mühlhäuser The play of light operators had joined forces as the United Mühlhäuser Lichtspiele GmbH ". In addition to the Central
also found in the theater instead of films yet. Here were more than 900 spaces. First, there was only short films about events around the world and only gradually did it then with their own action movies.
The classic "Metropolis" - actually the first science fiction film - was, like many subsequent silent films with piano music yet accompanied.
In 1930, the "Blue Angel" to the sound film in Germany became popular, were also in Mulhouse, the first sound films to show - and first in the Thuringia-light games - in 1928 at the Steinweg 5 / 6 with 980 places have been opened. With Marlene Dietrich then began the era of the great movie stars who attracted a crowd puller and the visitors soon pushed the theater in the background.
The "White Wall" at St. Mary's Church was opened in 1909 and was then in the thirties, the smallest - and cheapest - Cinemas in Mulhouse, but maybe that is why most visited by the children happy.
Here in the "flea-box" with its 249 seats were mostly older movies and shows in the children's performances were "Tom Mix" and other predators guns visible.
But then came the time where in all three cinemas-theaters first, the German newsreel was shown in the view of the successes of the Wehrmacht in World War 2 were. Besides "Quax the Crash Pilot" with Heinz Ruehmann, then there were the movies "Stukas" and "Request Concert" with Carl Raddatz and "An Affair" with Zarah Leander. NS Propagandefilme that should make war palatable to the people.
1945, there were no movies then once more, and only gradually were first Russian films (.. yet .. in original language) and then also shown earlier German films. The DEFA eyewitness then brought the first actual pictures of current events in German.
1946 then the first DEFA film "The Murderers Are Among Us" with Hildegard Kneef. But there was also West German and Russian films and then the performances were sold out very often. Long queues at the ticket office was not unusual.
The DEFA offered in the following years a wide range of films, from the obligatory "class-conscious movie" until the comedy film and up to the often very good fairy tale movies, handed out the.
The DEFA offered in the following years a wide range of films, from the obligatory "class-conscious movie" until the comedy film and up to the often very good fairy tale movies, handed out the. Then, when such "Western movies" are played as "When the White Lilacs Bloom Again" was, of course, particularly large crowds.
But films like "The Legend of Paul and Paula" got us soon at cult status.
was in 1962 concluded the "white wall", but the other two movie theaters need not complain about lack of spectators.
With the turn was then again everything is different.
was first taken over the Central Theater of the group Kieft, closed and rebuilt. After its opening in 1993 - now with 690 seats in four screening rooms - in 1995, the Thuringia-cinema has been transformed into a fashion store.
Although the Central 12-16 performances were provided, the great age of cinema was slow in Mulhouse over.
The television had largely won his victory.
.. By the way ..., we still remained a theater ... .. The puppet theater ...
... No, not in Erfurt and Berlin ... but the little puppet theater at home ... But there are actually still ..?
were used to be so imer at the amusement park again to be found in the fifties and sixties could be the collapsible puppet theater and the associated hand puppets still buy at Toys-Hartung, or spot on the lens road ..
But today well-Barbie and co-extruded and this nice toy ... and so we are left here in our beautiful city, just the everyday theater ... this is very exciting indeed ... ;-))
