Oberlandler Volkstheater Penzberg
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The Oberlandler Volkstheater Penzberg e. V. is an amateur theatre association in Penzberg in the district of Weilheim-Schongau, Upper Bavaria, Germany. Founded in 1908 as the Volkstheater Verein Penzberg, it stages Bavarian folk plays as well as modern classics, mainly in the town hall (Stadthalle), and runs the youth group Lampenfieber.[1][2]
| Oberlandler Volkstheater Penzberg e. V. | |
| Founded | 8 November 1908 |
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| Legal form | Registered association (eingetragener Verein) |
| Member of | Verband Bayerischer Amateurtheater |
| Location | |
| Headquarters | Penzberg |
| Country | Germany |
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| Links | |
| Website | oberlandler-volkstheater-penzberg.de |
History
According to the club chronicle, eleven men and two of their wives met at the inn Glück Auf and founded the Volkstheater Verein Penzberg on 8 November 1908. Many of them came from a theatre group of a local costume society that had been raising money for a society banner. A second root was the amateur theatre that had existed within Penzberg's craftsmen's association since 1888. Five weeks after its founding the club staged Ludwig Anzengruber's folk play Der G'wissenswurm, and in 1909 it performed eight different plays on 15 evenings. The playwright Georg Stöger was so taken with the club's production of his Gmoalump in 1909 that he had most of his later plays premiered in Penzberg; he was an honorary member until his death in 1965. From 1910 the club also staged musical folk plays, and its statutes required at least one performance a year for the poor.[1]
In 2012 the honorary member Abdon Ziegler, a member since 1959 and long-time director, appeared on stage for the 200th time.[3] In 2018 the club hosted the fourth award ceremony of Larifari, the Bavarian amateur theatre prize, at the Penzberg Stadthalle; one of its members, a licensed pyrotechnician, regularly runs pyrotechnics workshops for the Verband Bayerischer Amateurtheater e. V.[4]
The club is a member of the Bavarian association and of the Bund Deutscher Amateurtheater (BDAT). It has been placed by the BDAT on its list of dialect theatres meeting the standard of the entry "Regional diversity of dialect theatre in Germany" in the German inventory of intangible cultural heritage, and may use the heritage logo.[5]
Repertoire
Besides Bavarian folk plays, the club has staged works by Bertolt Brecht (Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti, Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches), Max Frisch's Biedermann und die Brandstifter, Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen, Der nackte Wahnsinn (Noises Off), Ein bayerischer Jedermann, Mein Bruder, der Räuber Kneißl and Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame. Each spring it also holds a Starkbieranstich, a satirical strong-beer evening.[6] In 2026 it staged an adaptation of Aristophanes's Lysistrata and Christina Calvo's crime play Die Mördergrube.[2]
Youth group
The youth group Lampenfieber was founded in 2005; it and an earlier youth group of the 1990s, Bündel '91, produced many of the club's later mainstays. Lampenfieber received a culture prize in 2022.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1908 – 1914: Die Wurzeln und die Anfangsjahre, Oberlandler Volkstheater Penzberg e.V., retrieved 14 October 2026. Archived on 11 February 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 So ein Theater – seit über 100 Jahren, Oberlandler Volkstheater Penzberg e.V., retrieved 14 October 2026. Archived on 18 May 2026.
- ↑ 200. und 100. Bühnenjubiläum, Oberlandler Volkstheater Penzberg e.V., retrieved 14 October 2026. Archived on 18 May 2026.
- ↑ Preisverleihung Larifari 2017, Oberlandler Volkstheater Penzberg e.V., retrieved 14 October 2026. Archived on 14 June 2026.
- ↑ Wir dürfen das Kulturerbe-Logo benutzen, Oberlandler Volkstheater Penzberg e.V., retrieved 14 October 2026. Archived on 15 October 2026.
- ↑ Rückblick auf frühere Inszenierungen, Oberlandler Volkstheater Penzberg e.V., retrieved 14 October 2026. Archived on 15 October 2026.