Freudenberger Bauernbühne

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The Freudenberger Bauernbühne e. V. is an amateur theatre club in Freudenberg in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate, Germany. It continues a tradition of rural farce (Bauerntheater) in the village of Wutschdorf that goes back to 1947, and has been a registered association since 1998.

Freudenberger Bauernbühne

Freudenberger Bauernbühne e. V.
Founded	1947
Members	350 (as of 2026)
Legal form	Registered association (eingetragener Verein)
Member of	Ver­band Baye­ri­scher Ama­teur­thea­ter
Location
Headquarters	Freudenberg
Country	Germany
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Website	freudenberger-buehne.de
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History

Lay theatre has been played in Wutschdorf-Freudenberg since 1947, at first in the old Romwirtsaal and from the 1950s in the new parish hall in Wutschdorf; open-air performances and guest performances in neighbouring villages were given early on. From 1963 Martin Solfrank directed the group, then part of the Wutschdorf Landjugend; Walter Daubenmerkl led it from 1976 to 1981 and Reinhold Escherl from 1982 to 1989. The group took the name Freudenberger Bauernbühne in 1985, and in the 1980s, which the club regards as its most successful period up to then, it regularly gave guest performances in Amberg, Hirschau, Großenpfalz and Schwandorf. In the 1990s, under Benno Schißlbauer, performances took place only in Wutschdorf.

From the 50th anniversary year 1997 the group regularly staged a spring and an autumn play, and in March 1998 the association Freudenberger Bauernbühne e. V. was founded; it has since grown to more than 350 members. Open-air productions of Der Brandner Kaspar und das ewig' Leben in 2002, 2006, 2012 and 2018 were highlights, and members took part in other projects such as the castle festival in Leuchtenberg, the Vilstheater 2006 and the Amberger Welttheater on the Mariahilfberg in Amberg (since 2009). In 2014 Michi Vogt founded the youth group Junge Bühne Freudenberg; a children's group has also been established.

Venues

The club performs in the parish hall in Wutschdorf. Since 2014 it has rented the old Stechweber-Hof farm in Wutschdorf, which serves as its costume and prop store and, since 2015, as the venue for its open-air productions.

Repertoire

The repertoire consists mainly of Bavarian farces, complemented by crime-dinner evenings, Christmas plays and productions by the youth group.

Productions (incomplete)

Year	Title	Author	Notes
1998	Die falsche Katz'		April 1998
1998	Der Erbe vom Buchenhof		Autumn
1999	Dirndl, mach's Fensterl auf		Spring
1999	Die eiserne Fanny		Autumn
2000	Fensterln auf Bestellung		April 2000
2000	Das Verlegenheitskind		Autumn; revival
2001	Die drei Dorfheiligen	Max Neal and Max Ferner	Spring
2001	Der Brau(t)schwindel (Einmaleins der Liebe)		November 2001 – January 2002
2002	Der fidele Hausl		Autumn
2002	Der Brandner Kasper und das ewig' Leben		Open-air production on the church square in Wutschdorf, also 2006 and 2012
2003	Wenn der Hahn kräht		Spring
2003	Bloß koan Schnaps		Autumn
2004	Die drei Eisbären		Spring; revival, in Wutschdorf and Amberg
2004	Der Tod und das Mädchen		Special event on the Vils in Amberg, June 2004
2004	Der Preisboxer		November 2004
2005	Die hölzerne Jungfrau		April/May 2005
2005	Thomas auf der Himmelsleiter		November 2005 – January 2006
2005	Oberpfälzer Herbergssuche		December, at the open-air museum in Neusath
2005	Die Brautschau	Ludwig Thoma	October 2005 – March 2006
2006	Der Tod, das Mädchen und der Fluss		Vilstheater in Amberg, May 2006
2007	Im weiß-blauen Schimmel		Spring and autumn
2008	Hochzeit – Stillgestanden		Spring
2008	Magdalena		Autumn
2009	Die verzwickte Erbschaft		Spring
2009	Dirndl, mach's Fensterl auf		Autumn 2009 – spring 2010
2009	Das Welttheater		Open-air theatre on the Mariahilfberg in Amberg, 2009 and 2014
2010	Der Himmel auf Erden		Autumn 2010 – spring 2011
2011	Das Millionenbett		Autumn 2011 – spring 2012
2013	Die wilde Hilde		Spring and autumn
2013	Herbergssuche		December; touring
2014	Krimidinner		Spring; crime dinner
2014	Der bayerische Casanova		November 2014 – March 2015
2015	's Schwalberl		Open-air at the Stechweber-Hof, July 2015/2016
2015	Positiv		November; first play by the Junge Bühne
2016	Das Verlegenheitskind		Spring
2016	Die Mordsfrauen von Freudenberg		Autumn; Junge Bühne
2017	Zum Nachtisch blauer Eisenhut		Spring; crime dinner
2018	Besser spät als nie		Spring
2018	Oh Leck		Autumn; Junge Bühne
2018	Weiberaufstand im Paradies		Autumn; Junge Bühne
2019	Kohlhiesels Töchter		Open-air at the Stechweber-Hof
2020	Da ist der Wurm drin		Spring; cancelled
2022	Der Dorfboder		Open-air at the Stechweber-Hof
2023	Dirndl, mach's Fensterl auf		Summer; last production of Reinhold Escherl
2024	Ratsch und Tratsch		Summer
2024	Teufelsbrut		Autumn; crime dinner with the Landgasthof Dotzler
2026	Die drei Dorfheiligen	Max Neal and Max Ferner	17 October – 28 November 2026, parish hall in Wutschdorf

Organisation

The Freudenberger Bauernbühne has more than 350 members; it organises an annual general meeting, weekend events and theatre trips, and also runs children's theatre workshops as part of the municipal holiday programme.