Ruhrfestspiele
ruhrfestspiele ruhr festival recklinghausen north rhinewestphalia germany one oldest theatre festival europe founded world war ii festival major annual cultural event ruhr area always start may funded city recklinghausen labour union deutscher gewerkschaftsbund dgb festival comprises performance european performer theatre company aim bring different art form language culture together main venue ruhrfestspielhaus award architecture festival originated postwar winter hamburg theatre unable heat premise sent representative ruhr valley organize coal small group person leaded otto burrmeister head administration deutsches schauspielhaus went ruhr area two wood gas truck asked miner first mine could find fuel miner pit king ludwig recklinghausen suburb suderwich provided coal without permission british occupation authority led pit called cradle ruhrfestspiele wiege der ruhrfestspiele return performer deutsches schauspielhaus thalia theater staatsoper hamburg held performance städtischer saalbau hall recklinghausen mid slogan kunst gegen kohle art coal dgb labour union city founded company organize first festival started performance goethe faust state north rhinewestfalia supported festival since festival traditionally start may drama performance complemented concert art exhibit political event opera performed due technical limitation saalbau building june construction started new hall ruhrfestspielhaus financed friend ruhrfestspiele freunde der ruhrfestspiele association founded federal president theodor heuss new building opened architecture influenced bauhaus program grew political showing performance independent ensemble gripstheater theatermanufaktur berlin play bertolt brecht beginning festival expanded europäisches theater european theater new director hansgünther heyme shaped festival invited company european country atlantic urals effort counteract growing nationalism xenophobia set motto festival foundation empirereichsgründungen year aufbrüche – jahre nach ’ th anniversary year art motor every culture kunst ist der motor jeder kultur future without past zukunft ohne vergangenheit courage say courage mut sag ich mut longing addiction sehnsüchte ruhrfestspielhaus transformed congress center including addition entrance hall remodelling awarded german architecture prize henry moore sculpture large reclining figure number große liegende nr placed building entrance performing space used whilst ruhrfestspielhaus remodelled vestlandhalle marl theatre storage hall auguste victoria mine marl theaterzelt theatre tent frank hoffmann director since encouraged classic play gotthold ephraim lessing minna von barnhelm emilia galotti nathan der weise theme william shakespeare play richard ii production old vic kevin spacey greg wise motto upon time america dream theatre e war einmal amerika ein traum vom theater showing work eugene oneill speedtheplow david mamet blackbird david harrower theme northern light nordlichter presenting play henrik ibsen august strindberg festival also showed chekhov cherry orchard shakespeare winter tale collaboration brooklyn academy music old vic region european capital culture theme continent kleist romantic ocean kontinent kleist im romantischen meer looked influence dramatist poet heinrich von kleist contemporary successor festival main production total event john malkovich appeared musical version movie infernal comedy – confession serial killer michael sturminger motto im osten neues von den fernen tagen de russischen theater die zukunft reflecting russian theatre performance play pushkin chekhov tolstoi dostoyevski festival attracted visitor ruhrfestspiele recklinghausen gmbh ed jahre ruhrfestspiele recklinghausen pomp essen ingeborg schnellingreinicke gründung und entwicklung der ruhrfestspiele recklinghausen rheinlandverlag köln official website