Ohnsorg-Theater Hamburg
Low German playhouse where a once-mocked dialect became must-watch national television.
This guide to the Ohnsorg-Theater in Hamburg follows Richard Ohnsorg, a librarian who grew up hearing neighbors apologize for speaking Plattdeutsch, the old Low German of the docks and merchant houses alike. You'll hear how he founded a stage in 1902 to put the dialect in front of a paying audience, moved his company through several names before settling into a former comedy house on the Große Bleichen in 1936, and didn't live to see the theater renamed for him in 1946. The guide then picks up a generation later with Heidi Kabel, the actress who carried his language further than he ever imagined, starting with NDR's first broadcasts of the theater's plays in 1954.
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