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The Theater Anklam is located in the north-eastern corner of Germany, just 40 km from the Baltic Sea.
Founded at the beginning of the GDR as a three-section theater, only the drama department remained in 1963.
In the 1980s, it was used as a "deportation theater" for directors and actors disliked by the regime.
This is how Frank Castorf ends up as head director in Anklam.
After reunification, the small theater was deemed barely viable, but artistic director Wolfgang Bordel founded an association, pushed ahead with privatization and gave up his summer break.
The Vorpommersche Landesbühne GmbH Anklam, as it is known today, generates almost two thirds of its income in the summer with large open-air theater spectacles.
Motto: If the audience doesn't come to the theater, then the theater comes to the audience.
Esther Schweins introduces the Theater Anklam, visits the open-air stage in Zinnowitz on Usedom, where the Vineta saga is staged every year, and also takes a look at the theater academy founded in 2000, which trains around ten actors every year.
Artistic director Wolfgang Bordel presents his rolling workroom and explains how and why the theater has a strong identity-forming function in the structurally weak region.
Archive footage shows Frank Castorf's productions, which used to come as a shock to many Anklam residents, and Gregor Gysi reports on the pilgrimages of theater-loving intellectuals from Prenzlauer Berg to the far north-east.
