TSV Firnhaberau 1926
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TSV Firnhaberau 1926 e. V. is a sports club in the Firnhaberau district of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, whose theatre section, the Theaterleut, goes back to the club's early years. It stages boulevard comedies, dialect plays and musical comedies, and its youth group performs an annual Christmas fairy tale, all at the Hubertushof.[1][2]
History
Soon after the club was founded in 1926, a group of young amateur actors from the north of Augsburg joined it, and Max Peter Mader set up the theatre section; Magda Schneider, the mother of Romy Schneider, took her first steps on stage there before being engaged by the Augsburg municipal theatre. Mader adapted Edgar Wallace's Der Hexer and staged works such as Im weißen Rössl.[1] After the Second World War the theatre section resumed its rehearsals in 1946.[2]
After Mader's death, Magda Karder, ballet mistress of the municipal theatre of Augsburg, took over the group, modernised its repertoire with boulevard productions and had the annual Christmas fairy tales performed by children; among her greatest successes was Der Brandner Kaspar und das ewig' Leben in 1992.[1] In 1985 Rainer Lechner founded the youth group, whose first production was Hänsel und Gretel at the Hubertushof; in 1988 it took part in the Theatra 88 festival in Saint-Louis with Die dumme Augustine, and in 1996 it hosted the fourth meeting of Bavarian youth theatres.[1] Gretl Hirner, daughter of the club's founding chairman, led the section from 1989 to 2009. In 2015 the Theaterleut staged their first musical, Der kleine Horrorladen, in the beer garden of the Hubertushof.[2]
Repertoire
Under director Rainer Lechner the programme includes boulevard comedies, classic dialect theatre and musical comedies. The Augsburg author Ulla Kling has written for the group, which premiered her Fünfzig Minuten Verspätung in 2005.[1] Recent productions include the comedy Theater, Theater! by Tom Müller and Sabine Misiorny and Don Camillo und Peppone; the youth group's Christmas fairy tales have included Robin Hood and, in December 2026, Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren.[1]
Venue
The section performs on the stage of the Hubertushof in the Firnhaberau; the youth group rehearses in the club's Sportheim.[1]
Organisation
In 2016 the theatre section had 79 members, 29 of them children and young people.[1]