Producer

Leopold Hoesch

Director

Matthias Schmidt

Creative Producer

Vera Bertram

Genre

Culture

Broadcaster

ZDFtheaterkanal / 3sat / ZDFdokukanal

Length

1 x 30'

Editor

Year

2006

Theater landscapes

Rostock People's Theater

This episode of "Theater Landscapes" takes Esther Schweins to the almost 800-year-old shipyard and port city of Rostock.
Rostock's theater can look back on more than a century of eventful history.

It was called the "Bayreuth of the North" because at the beginning of the last century it took special care of the Wagner legacy.
During the GDR era, the overseas port in Rostock was built and the theater under director Hanns Anselm Perten became an important theater center.
Together with the working-class poet Kurt Barthel, the largest theater spectacle to date about the privateer Klaus Störtebeker is staged on Rügen, agitprop theater is made, but also GDR premieres of American and West German authors take place in Rostock.

In the film, general director Steffen Piontek, theater director and director Johanna Schall and actors Katrin Stephan, Florian Rummel and Manfred Schlosser have their say.
The Rostock-born writer Walter Kempowski talks about his special connection to the city and its theater and Horst Klinkmann, chairman of the supervisory board of FC Hansa Rostock and member of the theater's circle of friends, describes artistic director Perten from a private perspective.

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