With the theatrical train through the history of a landscape
Premiere: 19.06.2019
On one of the steepest railway lines in Germany, the Eisenbahntheater Das Letzte Kleinod staged an extraordinary theatre performance. For the play SPITZKEHRE, contemporary witnesses told of an epoch when hundreds were still working in the glass industry in Stützerbach, Manebach factories exported carnival masks overseas and passenger trains brought holiday guests directly from the distant capital to the Rennsteig. The spectators of SPITZKEHRE changed to the theatre train at the Ilmenau railway station and experienced the history of the landscape in large pictures at eight stations. The train didn’t stop not only at the railway stations, but also in the forest, by the stream and in a rock cut.
The project was supported by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture on the basis of a resolution of the German Bundestag and by the Thuringian State Chancellery. The project took place in cooperation with Dampfbahnfreunde mittlerer Rennsteig e. V. and the initiative Solidarische Welt Ilmenau e.V. (ISWI).