Theater IrrReal
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| Founded | 1999 |
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| Member of | Verband Bayerischer Amateurtheater |
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| Headquarters | Augsburg |
| Country | Germany |
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| Website | theater-irrreal.de |
Theater IrrReal is an experimental amateur theatre group in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany.[1] Founded in 1999, it develops its own pieces, combining spoken scenes with music, masks, black theatre and computer animation.[1][2]
History
The group was formed in 1999 around a core of former members of the VHS-Theater Augsburg, the theatre group of the city's adult education centre; its members are amateurs of different ages and professions. Its first production, Was ist wirklich?, a sequence of loosely connected scenes, was performed three times at the Bürgerhaus in Pfersee in October 1999. It was followed in November 2000 by Schatten-Los, which was given two additional performances in January 2001 and a guest performance at the prison in Aichach in May 2001.[2] Reviewing Schatten-Los, the Augsburger Allgemeine described the production as an "anregendes Experiment" (stimulating experiment), while noting that its central metaphor was not always carried through consistently.[3]
In the following years the group produced roughly one programme a year. Besides its own venues it appeared at the Kulturhaus Abraxas, in the Hoffmannkeller of the Stadttheater Augsburg (2004 and 2005), at the Augsburger Kulturpalette, at the exhibition PAX-ART 2005, at a celebration of the Lettl-Atrium at the Augsburg chamber of commerce (2004) and at the festival Grenzenlos in 2011.[2] In 2016 it staged All-Tags-Sorgen in cooperation with the group theater 8.[4] Its most recent documented production, Umwege zur Unendlichkeit, was rehearsed during 2022 and performed in April 2023.[1][5] The group's website was no longer reachable in October 2026.
Repertoire
All productions are devised by the group itself; texts and self-composed music are written by its leader.[6] Several pieces take literary or visual works as a starting point: Schatten-Los draws on Adelbert von Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl and Hans Christian Andersen's The Shadow, Sanfte Irre on poems by Peter Paul Althaus, Spiegel-Bilder on paintings by the Augsburg surrealist Wolfgang Lettl, and Lebens-Spiel on the imagery of the tarot.[6][2] The Augsburger Allgemeine reported strong applause for Sanfte Irre in 2001.[7]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Was ist wirklich? | Sequence of scenes; Bürgerhaus Pfersee |
| 2000 | Schatten-Los | After Chamisso and Andersen; Bürgerhaus Pfersee; guest performance in Aichach prison 2001 |
| 2001 | Sanfte Irre | After poems by Peter Paul Althaus; Bürgerhaus Pfersee; repeated 2002 at Kulturhaus Abraxas and Aichach prison |
| 2003 | Spiegel-Bilder | On paintings by Wolfgang Lettl; Bürgerhaus Pfersee; repeated 2003 and 2004 |
| 2004 | Lebens-Spiel | On tarot imagery; Bürgerhaus Pfersee; guest performance in the Hoffmannkeller |
| 2005 | Zeit-Geist | PAX-ART 2005 and Bürgerhaus Pfersee |
| 2005 | Sand im Getriebe der Zeit | Best-of selection; Werkstattgalerie Krüggling |
| 2005 | Im Rahmen? | Songs and scenes from earlier pieces; Katharinenklause |
| 2006 | Das Leben ist schräg | Evening of poems and songs by various authors; Café Noir |
| 2006 | Wunderliche Wege wandeln | Werkstattgalerie Krüggling; repeated 2007 at Kulturhaus Abraxas |
| 2008 | Dimensionsschwund | Kulturhaus Abraxas |
| 2009 | Der wuchernde Hut | Werkstattgalerie Krüggling |
| 2011 | Vergegnungen | Cross-section of earlier programmes; festival Grenzenlos |
| 2013 | Drei + Drei = Sieben | Werkstattgalerie Krüggling |
| 2015 | Traum-Reisen | Werkstattgalerie Krüggling |
| 2016 | All-Tags-Sorgen | With theater 8; Werkstattgalerie Krüggling[4] |
| 2017 | Dimensionsschwund 2.33 | New version of the 2008 production; Werkstattgalerie Krüggling[8] |
| 2019 | Manegen-Freiheit | Werkstattgalerie Krüggling[9] |
| 2023 | Umwege zur Unendlichkeit | Grandhotel Cosmopolis[5] |
Venue
The group has no permanent theatre. Its early productions were staged at the Bürgerhaus Pfersee; from 2005 to 2019 it mostly played at the Werkstattgalerie Krüggling in Augsburg, and in 2023 at the Grandhotel Cosmopolis.[2][9][5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Theater IrrReal (archived 7 October 2024), Theater IrrReal, retrieved 22 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Geschichte (archived 6 December 2025), Theater IrrReal, retrieved 22 October 2026.
- ↑ "Experimentelles Schatten-Spiel", Augsburger Allgemeine, 18 November 2000, reproduced in Frühere Produktionen (archived 7 August 2003), Theater IrrReal, retrieved 22 October 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 All-Tags-Sorgen (archived 20 May 2024), Theater IrrReal, retrieved 22 October 2026.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Umwege zur Unendlichkeit (archived 21 March 2023), Theater IrrReal, retrieved 22 October 2026.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Frühere Produktionen (archived 7 August 2003), Theater IrrReal, retrieved 22 October 2026.
- ↑ "In der Welt der Anglizismen", Augsburger Allgemeine, 8 November 2001, reproduced in Frühere Produktionen (archived 7 August 2003), Theater IrrReal, retrieved 22 October 2026.
- ↑ Dimensionsschwund 2.33 (archived 29 August 2018), Theater IrrReal, retrieved 22 October 2026.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Manegen-Freiheit (archived 17 July 2019), Theater IrrReal, retrieved 22 October 2026.