Freundeskreis Germeringer Bürger
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| Freundeskreis Germeringer Bürger e. V. | |
| Founded | 1975 |
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| Members | 55 (as of 1977) |
| Legal form | Registered association (eingetragener Verein) |
| Member of | Verband Bayerischer Amateurtheater |
| Location | |
| Headquarters | Germering |
| Country | Germany |
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| Links | |
| Website | germeringer-rossstall.de |
The Freundeskreis Germeringer Bürger e. V., known as the Roßstall, is a community association in Germering in the district of Fürstenfeldbruck, Upper Bavaria, Germany, whose amateur company performs as the Theater im Roßstall in its own theatre house on the former Zengerlehof farm. According to the association, it is Germering's only theatre with its own building that operates without subsidies, and its performances have been almost always sold out for some 30 years.[1]
History
The association began in 1975 when residents of the Bärenweg rented a hobby cellar to get to know each other. As the Bärenclub – Freundeskreis Germeringer Bürger it had 55 members by 1977, when it was entered in the register of associations; among its activities was a lay theatre group under Ralph Ott. In 1979 the club leased a dilapidated horse stable at the Zengerlehof on Augsburger Straße and, after 2,500 hours of volunteer work, opened it as the Kleiner Roßstall clubhouse on 5 June 1980. From April 1983 to October 1984 members converted the barn and coach house into a theatre, the Roßstall-Stadl; the association now owns the property.[2]
Ralph Ott founded the theatre group in 1977 and decided from the outset not to play dialect theatre. Its first performance was Ott's own Wer denkt schon an Bethlehem in a private cellar, and the group first appeared before a wider public with the mystery play Zum Erwachen Blumen in the old village church of St. Martin during the first Germering cultural days. For several years it performed mainly plays written by Ott, such as the satire Nachtspinnen, with which the theatre era in the large hall began, Der Riss (1986) and Der Johannisbrunnen (1988). In April 1986 it staged its first play by an established playwright, Felix Mitterer's Kein Platz für Idioten, which drew 2,730 spectators over 21 performances, followed from 1988 by comedies and dramas such as Peter Ustinov's Halb auf dem Baum, Extremities and Von Mäusen und Menschen. Ott directed for the last time in 2005, Robert Thomas's Die Falle, and died in January 2006.[1]
After Ott's death, productions were directed by guests such as Günther Fleckenstein and Stefan Pirzer and by members including Willi Hörmann, Gabi Lodermeier and, from 2009, Cecilia Gagliardi. Productions in these years included Chekhov's Der Bär and Der Heiratsantrag and Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung (2007), Patrick Süskind's Der Kontrabass (2008), Molière's Der eingebildete Kranke (2008), Gogol's Der Revisor (2009) and Gretchen 89ff (2013).[1] In autumn 2026 the theatre presented Geistreich and a crime-dinner production, Dinner for Death.[3]
Organisation
Besides the theatre, the association runs a choir and community activities; the theatre receives no subsidies and is financed from ticket sales and membership fees.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Theater – Historie, Freundeskreis Germeringer Bürger e. V., retrieved 17 October 2026. Archived on 10 May 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Verein – Freundeskreis Germeringer Bürger e. V., Freundeskreis Germeringer Bürger e. V., retrieved 17 October 2026. Archived on 23 April 2026.
- ↑ Roßstall – Aktuelles, Freundeskreis Germeringer Bürger e. V., retrieved 17 October 2026. Archived on 17 June 2026.