Open-air theatre Daverden

image author: Flecken Langwedel

When in the year 1920 the gymnastic club was founded there was also the first theatre performance. Performing took place in the hall and then in the gym from 1926 onwards. It was around the year 1950 when the theatre group planned to built an open-air theatre and put it into practice to perform from now on underneath the sky. One celebrated the open-air theatre opening with a premiere of Shakespeare's 'Midsommer Night's Dream' in the Daverdener Holz.

In the year 1954 a stage was built at the present location at the steep bank of the Old Aller river. An oil painting without changing our landscape too much. Imbedded into the natural slope of the wooded Geest ridge eleven rows of seats are grouped in a semicircle.

The open-air theatre offers comfortable space for an audience of more than 500 and an open view onto the lower bedded stage. Two pretty half-timbered houses, which were built in the course of the years, beautify the stage's overall view and offer the actors a variable play.

Instead of classics more or less only folk plays and droll stories are on the programme. And of course in Low-German, the regional dialect.

Since the year 2000 theatre for young & old, from 5 - 99 is also being performed on stage. And the great fairytale include lots of acting children. As symbol for the fairytale we selected the unicorn. Whether the unicorn does really exists has been 'played' on stage.

image author: Flecken Langwedel

The brass band of the TSV Daverden plays as 'warm-up' and during breaks at Low-German plays.