Theater Nikola Landshut
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| Theater Nikola Landshut e. V. | |
| Founded | 1975 |
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| Members | 50 (as of 2026) |
| Legal form | Registered association (eingetragener Verein) |
| Member of | Verband Bayerischer Amateurtheater |
| Location | |
| Headquarters | Landshut |
| Country | Germany |
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| Links | |
| Website | theater-nikola.de |
Theater Nikola Landshut is an amateur theatre group based in Landshut, Lower Bavaria, Germany, attached to the Catholic parish of St. Nikola. Founded in 1975, it usually stages a spring and an autumn production in the parish hall of St. Nikola, ranging from classical drama to comedies, crime plays and Bavarian dialect pieces, and takes part in the Landshut Wedding festival.[1][2]
History
The group was founded in 1975 by a parishioner of St. Nikola together with seven young people; its first public appearances were a self-written sketch in July 1975 and scenes by Karl Valentin in September of that year. The first premiere, Ludwig Thoma's comedy Die kleinen Verwandten, was given in October 1975 at a district meeting of the Kolping families in Pfeffenhausen, and in December 1975 the group played Thoma's Waldfrieden at the opening of the hall in the new St. Nikola parish centre.[2] The parish centre was built in 1975 and has served as the group's playing space since.[3] In 1976 the group won first prize at a theatre competition of the Kolping families of the Isargau district with Thoma's Gelähmte Schwingen.[2]
From 1978 the group took part in the Landshut Wedding, first with street theatre and later as travelling comedians with plays by Hans Sachs and with players in the festival play.[2][4] In April 1981 it joined the Volksspielkunst-Verband Bayern and the Bund Deutscher Amateurtheater.[4] The founder handed over the leadership in 2005, the group's 30th anniversary year, when a registered association was formed.[5] In 2013 the autumn production had to be cancelled after flood damage.[6]
The group marked its 40th anniversary in October 2015 with a ceremony in the Prunksaal of Landshut town hall and a photo exhibition. According to the association's chairman, it had by then staged about 75 productions with some 800 performances for about 90,000 spectators.[7] In 2017 it was one of the founding members of the Bühne Landshut, an interest group of Landshut amateur theatres formed with Theater Hofberg, Theater Konrad and the youth music theatre association MuT to look jointly for rehearsal, storage and performance space.[8][9] After the spring production of 2020 was cancelled because of the COVID-19 lockdown, the group performed short pieces in 2020 and 2021.[10] It celebrated its 50th anniversary in autumn 2025.[10]
Repertoire
The repertoire covers classical drama (Shakespeare, Sophocles, Kleist, Goethe), 20th-century plays by authors such as Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Ödön von Horváth and Jean Anouilh, comedies, thrillers and crime plays, Bavarian dialect pieces by Ludwig Thoma and others, and religious and Christmas plays. In addition the group regularly appears at the Landshut Wedding, the Landshut Altstadtfest and the Nikola-Dult, and has given benefit evenings for the restoration of the old church of St. Nikola.[1][11][5] Since the 2000s it has normally staged one spring and one autumn production a year.[5][6]
| Year | Title | Author | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Die kleinen Verwandten | Ludwig Thoma | First premiere, Pfeffenhausen |
| 1975 | Waldfrieden | Ludwig Thoma | Opening of the St. Nikola parish hall |
| 1975 | Das Geschenk der Weisen | after O. Henry | Christmas reading play |
| 1976 | Die kleinen Verwandten and Waldfrieden | Ludwig Thoma | Revival; first full-evening programme, 14 February 1976 |
| 1976 | Valentinaden | Karl Valentin | Programme of sketches |
| 1976 | Gelähmte Schwingen | Ludwig Thoma | First prize, Kolping theatre competition, Isargau district |
| 1976 | Der gefundene Sohn | Otto Bruder | |
| 1976 | Geschichten und Gedichte zur Weihnacht | Christmas programme | |
| 1977 | Wer schrie: Kreuzige ihn!? | Manfred Schwarz | Good Friday play |
| 1977 | Drei reizende Damen (Der Freier, Das schreckliche Ende des Räubers Rinaldo Rinaldini) | Manfred Haug | Two short crime plays |
| 1977 | Psychiatrie und Perlen | Alec Robertsen | Crime farce |
| 1977 | Ein Weihnachtsspiel | Carl Orff | Reading |
| 1978 | Das Spiel vom König Salomon | Hans Folz / Klaus Schlette | Street theatre, Landshut Wedding 1978 |
| 1978 | Die drei Eisbären | Maximilian Vitus | |
| 1978 | Heilige Nacht | Ludwig Thoma | |
| 1979 | Der Firmling | Karl Valentin | |
| 1979 | Zur Rose und Krone | J. B. Priestley | |
| 1979 | Die drei Eisbären | Maximilian Vitus | Revival, Landshut town hall |
| 1979 | Der Sultan mit den Ziegenohren | Margarete Grüner | Fairy tale |
| 1979 | Der Bär and Der Heiratsantrag | Anton Chekhov | |
| 1979 | Ich bin dir dreimal begegnet | after Leo Tolstoy | Reading play |
| 1980 | Der alte Feinschmecker | Ludwig Thoma | |
| 1981 | Der reparierte Scheinwerfer | Karl Valentin | |
| 1981 | Der fahrende Schüler aus dem Paradeis | Hans Sachs | Revival |
| 1981 | Das Spiel vom König Salomon | Hans Folz / Klaus Schlette | Street theatre, Landshut Wedding 1981 |
| 1981 | Antigone | Jean Anouilh | |
| 1982 | Die Lokalbahn | Ludwig Thoma | |
| 1982 | Die Mausefalle | Agatha Christie | The Mousetrap |
| 1983 | Der Dorfteufel | Heinrich Wolf, after Heinrich von Kleist | |
| 1983 | Dann setz ich mir den Todesschuss | Wolfgang Hillmann | Anti-drug play |
| 1984 | Straubinger Totentanz | Matthias Pöschl | World premiere, Straubing |
| 1984 | Der tote Mann | Hans Sachs | Altstadtfest 1984 |
| 1984 | Der Untergang | Walter Jens, after Euripides | |
| 1985 | Straubinger Totentanz | Matthias Pöschl | Revival; guest performances in Munich and Freising |
| 1985 | Der tote Mann and Der fahrende Schüler aus dem Paradeis | Hans Sachs | Revival, Landshut Wedding 1985 |
| 1985 | Weiberfastnacht | after Hans Folz | |
| 1985 | Die kleinen Verwandten and Die Medaille | Ludwig Thoma | 10th anniversary |
| 1986 | Der tote Mann, Das Spiel vom König Salomon, Der Rossdieb zu Fünsing | Hans Sachs, Hans Folz, Otfried Preußler | Evening of three farces |
| 1986 | Die Eroberung der Prinzessin Turandot | Wolfgang Hildesheimer | |
| 1987 | Kasimir und Karoline | Ödön von Horváth | |
| 1987 | Romulus der Große | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | |
| 1988 | Magdalena | Ludwig Thoma | |
| 1988 | Becket oder die Ehre Gottes | Jean Anouilh | |
| 1989 | Die Glasmenagerie | Tennessee Williams | |
| 1989 | Herkules und der Stall des Augias | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | |
| 1990 | Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen | Joseph Kesselring | Arsenic and Old Lace |
| 1990 | Jedermann | Hugo von Hofmannsthal | Jedermann; 15th anniversary |
| 1991 | Volpone | Ben Jonson / Stefan Zweig | |
| 1991 | Kleopatra | August von Kotzebue | Altstadtfest |
| 1991 | Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank | Frances Goodrich / Albert Hackett | The Diary of Anne Frank |
| 1992 | Liliom | Ferenc Molnár | |
| 1992 | Der Krämerskorb | Hans Sachs | Nikola-Dult |
| 1992 | Warte, bis es dunkel ist | Frederick Knott / Wolfgang Menge | Wait Until Dark |
| 1993 | A Rua is Bua! | Fitzgerald Kusz / Martin Sperr | |
| 1993 | Antigone | Sophocles / Walter Jens | |
| 1993 | Heilige Nacht | Ludwig Thoma | Benefit evening for Alt-St. Nikola |
| 1994 | Hinterkeifeck | Reinfried Keilich | On the Hinterkaifeck murders |
| 1994 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand / Pavel Kohout | |
| 1995 | Der Faust | Thomas Stammberger / Johannes Reitmeier, after Goethe | Bavarian version; 20th anniversary |
| 1996 | Glaube Liebe Hoffnung | Ödön von Horváth | |
| 1996 | Opern auf Bayrisch | Paul Schallweg | |
| 1997 | Verrücktes Schach | Vittorio Franceschi | |
| 1997 | Liebe und Magie in Mamas Küche | Lina Wertmüller | |
| 1998 | Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald | Ödön von Horváth | |
| 1998 | Der Meteor | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | |
| 1999 | Gänsehaut | Peter Colley | Thriller |
| 1999 | Noch mehr Opern auf Bayrisch | Paul Schallweg | |
| 2000 | Hochzeit (Brautschau, Der Hochzeiter, Der Heiratsantrag) | Ludwig Thoma, Lena Christ, Anton Chekhov | Three one-act plays; 25th anniversary |
| 2000 | Der Untergang des Hauses Usher | after Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher |
| 2001 | Die Kellnerin Anni | Herbert Rosendorfer | Seven solo scenes |
| 2001 | Besuchszeit | Felix Mitterer | Three one-act plays |
| 2001 | A Stern is aufganga | Walter Pöschl | |
| 2002 | Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | |
| 2002 | Noch viel mehr Opern auf Bayrisch | Paul Schallweg | |
| 2003 | Die Lokalbahn | Ludwig Thoma | Benefit evening for Alt-St. Nikola |
| 2003 | Das Duell | Ludwig Thoma | Altstadtfest |
| 2003 | Der Krämerskorb | Hans Sachs | 100 years of the Landshut Wedding |
| 2003 | Bella | Anna Cron | Farce |
| 2004 | Der Fall Judas | Walter Jens | Benefit evening in Alt-St. Nikola |
| 2004 | Der Name der Rose | Claus J. Frankl, after Umberto Eco | The Name of the Rose |
| 2004 | Amanita | Ingo Sax | |
| 2005 | Straubinger Totentanz | Matthias Pöschl | Revival; 30th anniversary |
| 2005 | Die sündigen Engel | after Henry James | Mystery thriller |
| 2006 | Die Schlacht bei Mollwitz | Herbert Rosendorfer | World premiere |
| 2007 | Aus spitzer Feder … Kabarett aus 100 Jahren | Various | Benefit evening for Alt-St. Nikola |
| 2007 | Gretchen 89ff | Lutz Hübner | |
| 2007 | Das Haus des Richters | John Goodrum, after Bram Stoker | Thriller |
| 2008 | Holzers Peepshow | Markus Köbeli | Comedy |
| 2008 | Ein Sommernachtstraum | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 2009 | Dinner Mortale | Culinary crime stories | |
| 2009 | Späte Gegend | Lida Winiewicz | |
| 2009 | Märchenbrüder | Evening for the 150th anniversary of Wilhelm Grimm's death | |
| 2010 | Der Fall Rautermann | Jürgen Baumgarten | Crime play |
| 2010 | Der zerbrochne Krug | Heinrich von Kleist | The Broken Jug |
| 2011 | Pension Schaller | Dieter Fischer and Tobias Giebert | Bavarian farce after Pension Schöller |
| 2011 | Faust I | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust |
| 2012 | Oscar | Claude Magnier | |
| 2012 | Veronikas Zimmer | Ira Levin | Veronica's Room |
| 2013 | Kuss der Unsterblichkeit | Vampire musical; autumn production cancelled after flood damage | |
| 2014 | Boeing-Boeing | Marc Camoletti | Boeing-Boeing |
| 2014 | Solaris | after Stanisław Lem | Solaris |
| 2015 | Spectaculum Bavariae | Bavarian revue | |
| 2015 | Die Nibelungen | 40th anniversary production | |
| 2016 | Die Kaktusblüte | Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy | Comedy |
| 2016 | Der Seelenbrecher | after Sebastian Fitzek | Psychological thriller |
| 2017 | Plötzlich letzten Sommer | ||
| 2017 | Spectaculum Bavariae (continuation) | ||
| 2018 | Immer wieder nachts um vier | ||
| 2019 | Commedia dell'arte | ||
| 2019 | Das Boot | ||
| 2020 | Alltagsliebe – Liebesalltag | Spring production cancelled (COVID-19) | |
| 2021 | Alltagsliebe – Liebesalltag and Geschlossene Gesellschaft | ||
| 2022 | Ein PAAR Beziehungen and Sonate für Witwe und Klavier | ||
| 2023 | Der Vorname | ||
| 2024 | Die Wanderhure | ||
| 2024 | Sherlock Holmes: Das falsche Paket | ||
| 2025 | Die Zaubertrommel | ||
| 2025 | 50 Jahre Theater Nikola | Anniversary programme | |
| 2026 | Die acht Frauen | after Robert Thomas | 8 Women; first production with songs[12] |
| 2026 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | Macbeth; premiere 24 October 2026, 32 players[13] |
Venue
The group plays in the parish hall (Pfarrsaal) of the Pfarrzentrum St. Nikola, Nikolastraße 41a, in Landshut, which has a foyer with a bar and seats about 140 spectators.[14][13] It has occasionally given guest performances elsewhere, for example in old people's homes, in Straubing, Munich and Freising.[2][4]
Organisation
In 2026 the association had about 50 members.[13] It is a founding member of the Bühne Landshut.[8]
Awards
On 6 March 2017 Theater Nikola Landshut e. V. received the Heimatpreis Niederbayern, the Lower Bavarian round of the Heimatpreis Bayern awarded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance and Heimat, at a ceremony in Passau, in recognition of its theatre programme and its contribution to the cultural life of Landshut.[1][15] Earlier, in 1976, it had won first prize at a theatre competition of the Kolping families of the Isargau district.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Söder verleiht „Heimatpreis Niederbayern“, Bayerisches Landesportal, 6 March 2017, retrieved 22 October 2026. Archived on 22 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Chronik 1975–1979, Theater Nikola Landshut e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. Archived on 11 July 2026.
- ↑ St. Nikola (Landshut), German Wikipedia, retrieved 22 October 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Chronik 1980–1989, Theater Nikola Landshut e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. Archived on 20 May 2026.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Biographie 2000–2009, Theater Nikola Landshut e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. Archived on 18 June 2026.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Biographie 2010–2019, Theater Nikola Landshut e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. Archived on 22 October 2026.
- ↑ Laientheater auf hohem Niveau, Landshuter Zeitung, October 2015, reproduced by Theater Nikola Landshut e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. Archived on 22 October 2026.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Bühne Landshut, Theater Nikola Landshut e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. Archived on 20 May 2026.
- ↑ Bühne Landshut – Vorstellung, Landshuter Zeitung, 2017, reproduced by Theater Nikola Landshut e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. Archived on 18 June 2026.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Biographie ab 2020, Theater Nikola Landshut e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. Archived on 11 July 2026.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Chronik 1990–1999, Theater Nikola Landshut e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. Archived on 18 June 2026.
- ↑ Kritik LZ vom 20. März 2026: Die acht Frauen, Landshuter Zeitung, 20 March 2026, reproduced by Theater Nikola Landshut e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. Archived on 20 May 2026.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 „Macbeth“: Das verfluchte Stück, Landshuter Zeitung, 7 October 2026, reproduced by Theater Nikola Landshut e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. Archived on 22 October 2026.
- ↑ Räumlichkeiten, Theater Nikola Landshut e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. Archived on 18 June 2026.
- ↑ Heimatpreis Bayern, German Wikipedia, retrieved 22 October 2026.