Neues Theater Mering

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Neues Theater Mering

Neues Theater Mering e. V.
Founded	March 1990
Members	185 (as of 1 January 2014)
Legal form	Registered association (eingetragener Verein)
Member of	Ver­band Baye­ri­scher Ama­teur­thea­ter
Location
Headquarters	Mering
Country	Germany
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The Neues Theater Mering e. V. (NTM) is an amateur theatre association in Mering in the district of Aichach-Friedberg, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. Founded in 1990 by a group of young theatre enthusiasts, it stages contemporary and classical plays and children's theatre with an adult ensemble, a children's group and a youth group, and plays in its own hall, the Dachtheater in the Schlossmühle in Mering.

History

The association was founded in March 1990 by a group of young people who wanted to bring theatre with contemporary relevance to their audience. With no organisation behind them, they negotiated with the municipality and the Catholic parish for a playing space and collected start-up money from sponsors. The first production, Ödön von Horváth's Hin und Her, was followed by Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Meteor, whose experimental stage design set the direction for the group's later style.

For eight years the group played in the Papst-Johannes-Haus; in 1999 it moved into its own hall, which it had fitted out itself. In 1999 it also began staging children's plays, starting with Kikerikiste by Paul Maar, as the founders had by then started families of their own. In summer 2004 it staged its largest project to date, an open-air production of Schiller's Die Räuber in the courtyard of Mering Castle. A children's group, the NTM Kids, was formed in 2008; after five productions it was divided in spring 2013, and the members aged twelve and over formed the youth group NTM Neons, whose first production was Dürrenmatt's Die Physiker in November 2013.

For its 25th anniversary the association held a jubilee weekend in February 2016 with three productions, among them a multimedia staging of Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil, for which the Walpurgis Night scene was filmed in the vaults of Mering Castle. The four performances of Faust in the Papst-Johannes-Haus were sold out, with a record total of 800 spectators. By December 2018 the group had staged 50 productions. Since 2024 members have also taken part, as volunteers, in the crime-prevention play Lug und Betrug of the criminal police advisory centre in Augsburg, which presents six scenarios of fraud against older people.

Repertoire

The adult ensemble plays classical and modern works with contemporary relevance and also children's plays, such as several adaptations of Paul Maar's Sams books since 2011; it has no permanent director, and members can try their hand at directing. The NTM Kids perform a children's play, usually a fairy tale, each year in Advent or early in the year, and the NTM Neons stage plays for young audiences. Some productions, such as Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (2018), bring together members of all three groups.

Productions

Date	Title	Author	Notes
May 1990	Hin und Her	Ödön von Horváth	First production
March 1991	Meteor	Friedrich Dürrenmatt
October 1991	Die Unvernünftigen sterben aus	Peter Handke
May 1992	Andorra	Max Frisch	Andorra
July 1992	Am Puls der Zeit
October 1992	Die Verspätung	Wolfgang Hildesheimer
June 1993	Ball der Diebe	Jean Anouilh
November 1993	Geschlossene Gesellschaft	Jean-Paul Sartre	No Exit
June 1994	Romulus der Große	Friedrich Dürrenmatt	Romulus the Great
October 1994	Fernando Krapp	Tankred Dorst
May 1995	Frühlings Erwachen	Frank Wedekind	Spring Awakening
January 1996	Kikerikiste	Paul Maar
October 1996	Jagdzeit
May 1997	Rotkäppchen spielen
January 1998	Biedermann und die Brandstifter	Max Frisch	The Fire Raisers
October 1998	Spiel's nochmal, Sam	Woody Allen
September 1999	Kikerikiste	Paul Maar	Revival
March 2000	Top Dogs	Urs Widmer
November 2000	Porträt eines Planeten	Friedrich Dürrenmatt
July 2001	Die Gruselschule
February 2002	Kabale und Liebe	Friedrich Schiller	Intrigue and Love
March 2003	Die Grotte	Jean Anouilh
October 2003	Das Traumfresserchen	Michael Ende
July 2004	Die Räuber	Friedrich Schiller	The Robbers; open air in the courtyard of Mering Castle
April 2005	Der kleine Prinz	after Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
January 2006	Der kleine Eisbär	after Hans de Beer
November 2006	Die Gefahr
July 2007	Kikerikiste	Paul Maar	Revival
April 2008	Die Spielverderber
December 2008	Hilfe, die Herdmanns kommen!	after Barbara Robinson	NTM Kids (children's group); The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
March 2009	Das Gesellschaftsspiel
December 2009	Pechvogel und Glückskind		NTM Kids (children's group)
July/September 2010	Emilia Galotti	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing	20th anniversary; open air in the castle courtyard
November/December 2010	Der Zauberer von Oz	after L. Frank Baum	NTM Kids (children's group)
April 2011	Eine Woche voller Samstage	after Paul Maar
November 2011	Komödie im Dunkeln	Peter Shaffer	Black Comedy
March 2012	Momo	after Michael Ende	NTM Kids (children's group)
January 2013	Fridolin! Ritter ohne Herz und Hirn!		NTM Kids (children's group)
April 2013	Shakespeares sämtliche Werke (leicht gekürzt)	Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield	The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
November 2013	Die Physiker	Friedrich Dürrenmatt	NTM Neons (youth group); first production; The Physicists
March 2014	Der kleine Wassermann	after Otfried Preußler	NTM Kids (children's group)
November 2014	Am Samstag kam das Sams zurück	after Paul Maar
April/May 2015	Die Welle	after Morton Rhue	NTM Neons (youth group); revived February 2016
November 2015	Die kleine Hexe	after Otfried Preußler	NTM Kids (children's group); revived February 2016
February 2016	Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	25th anniversary; Papst-Johannes-Haus
November/December 2016	Peter Pan	after J. M. Barrie	NTM Kids (children's group)
March 2017	Neue Punkte für das Sams	after Paul Maar
November 2017	Die Mausefalle	Agatha Christie	NTM Neons (youth group); The Mousetrap
March 2018	Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank	Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett	The Diary of Anne Frank
November 2018	Herr Bello und das blaue Wunder	after Paul Maar
March/April 2019	Das Dschungelbuch	after Rudyard Kipling	NTM Kids (children's group)
November 2019	Weltuntergang oder Die Welt steht auf kein' Fall mehr lang	Jura Soyfer	NTM Neons (youth group)
March 2022	Ritter Kamenbert
November 2022	Teufelsspur		NTM Neons (youth group)
November 2022	Schneewittchen-WG		NTM Kids (children's group)
March 2023	Spamalot – die Ritter der Kokosnuss	Eric Idle	Spamalot
November 2023	Die Opodeldoks		NTM Kids (children's group)
April 2024	Der Fall Rautermann
November/December 2024	Das Spinnennetz	Agatha Christie	NTM Neons (youth group); Spider's Web
February 2025	Das kleine Gespenst	after Otfried Preußler	NTM Kids (children's group)
March/April 2025	Alles lacht um Mitternacht
November 2025	Der Gott des Gemetzels	Yasmina Reza	God of Carnage; further performances March 2026
November 2025	Zieh den Stecker raus, das Wasser kocht		NTM Neons (youth group)
January/February 2026	Extrawurst	Dietmar Jacobs and Moritz Netenjakob
2026	Die sieben Zwerge erzählen von Schneewittchen	Sigrid Vorpahl	NTM Kids (children's group)

Venue

The association's hall, the Dachtheater, is on the fourth floor of the Schlossmühle in Mering, with a self-built modular wooden stage, a sound and lighting booth, a bar and a lift for barrier-free access; make-up and storage rooms are in the attic. From 1990 to 1998 the group played in the Papst-Johannes-Haus, a hall with up to 200 seats, to which it returned for its 25th anniversary in 2016. The courtyard of the neighbouring castle, owned by the von Grauvogl family, was used for the open-air productions of Die Räuber (2004) and Lessing's Emilia Galotti (2010, for the 20th anniversary).

Organisation

On 1 January 2014 the Neues Theater Mering had 185 members, 75 of them under 18.