Artus Ensemble Verein für erlebbare Geschichte
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The Artus Ensemble – Verein für erlebbare Geschichte (AE) is a non-profit amateur theatre association based in Mering in the district of Aichach-Friedberg, Bavarian Swabia, Germany. Founded in 2010, it stages plays based on local and regional history.[1]
| Founded | 2010 |
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| Member of | Verband Bayerischer Amateurtheater |
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| Headquarters | Mering |
| Country | Germany |
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| Website | artus-ensemble.de |
Repertoire
The ensemble describes its concept as telling local history in a lively way, with psychologically detailed, dramatic and partly grotesque plays.[1] Its productions include:[2]
- BruderHerz, a drama about the events around the first documentary mention of Mering on 14 November 1021, with Emperor Henry II and his brother Bruno, Bishop of Augsburg, as characters.
- BluatLech, a one-act play by Martina Drexler about a 19th-century German-Jewish criminal case, based on the non-fiction book Mord am Lech by Yehuda Shenef and directed by Hubert Schmucker. The play was mentioned in the Jüdischer Almanach 2019 of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem.
- Vergiss mein nicht – Ein Meringer Vermächtnis, a one-act play for the centenary of Mering's elevation to a market town.
- Brecht – auf zum Frieden, based on Bertolt Brecht's story Der Augsburger Kreidekreis, set in the Thirty Years' War.
In 2026 the ensemble performed Nix für Narren, set in the 15th century, about the town clerk Hermann Bote and the figure of Till Eulenspiegel.[1]
Awards
For BluatLech, the author Martina Drexler received the Verdienstmedaille im Amateurtheater (medal of merit in amateur theatre) of the district of Aichach-Friedberg.[2]