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theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V.
Founded 1977
Legal form Registered association (eingetragener Verein)
Member of Lan­des­ver­band Ama­teur­thea­ter Rheinland-Pfalz
Association of German Amateur Theater
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Headquarters Q560306
Country Germany
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theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V. is an amateur theatre group based in Niedererbach in the Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.[1] Founded in 1976 by members of the local church choir, it stages one main production in most years, as well as youth productions and, every few years, open-air theatre.[1][2]

History

The group was founded in September 1976 out of the Chorgemeinschaft Cäcilia St. Katharina, a choir in Niedererbach.[1] According to the group's chronicle, its members first performed four one-act plays in 1977, and in the same year the theatre work was separated from the choir and a separate association was founded.[3] In April 1978 the group staged its first full-length comedy.[4] In the late 1970s the members also took part in the local carnival (Fastnacht) events and parades.[5]

The group began working with children and young people at the end of the 1970s, at first with Christmas and nativity plays, later with children's theatre workshops and longer productions.[6] The youth plays performed at Christmas in the parish church were given for charity, for several years in support of a children's cancer ward at the university hospital in Gießen.[7] The youth section performed as "U16 – das junge Team der tfn".[8] After a period without youth work, the U16 was re-founded in 2015.[2]

In 1991 the group performed in the open air for the first time, staging Ein Sommernachtstraum at the Neumühle in Elz.[9] In 1995 a dispute over whether the club should build its own theatre workshop or take part in building the new village community hall led to an extraordinary general meeting, at which the board resigned. Many members then left and founded a new theatre association in Elz, the "theater am bach".[10] In 1998 the group moved into its own rooms in the "Haus Erlenbach", the village community hall of Niedererbach.[11]

The group celebrated its 25th anniversary in October 2001 with a festival weekend.[12] No play was planned for the 40th anniversary year 2016; the anniversary was marked with a reception in the Haus Erlenbach, and a gala evening was planned for New Year's Eve.[2] After a break of four years, it returned to the stage in 2023 with Nächste Runde geht aufs Haus.[13] For the group's 50th anniversary it staged its first crime dinner show, Mord im Luftschiff oder Ein Schuss ins Blaue, in the Haus Erlenbach in October 2026; the performances had originally been planned for October 2025 and were postponed.[14][15]

Repertoire

The repertoire consists mainly of comedies and farces, alongside crime plays and thrillers, classics, fairy-tale plays and Christmas plays for and with children, and occasional pieces in local dialect.[16] In 1989 the group performed two plays by Willi Schoth in the dialect of Elz, and in 1993 Schweig, Bub! was played in Westerwald dialect.[17][18]

Productions (incomplete)[16]
Year Title Author Notes
1978 Wahrheit, Liebe, Kraft und Tempo First full-length comedy
1978 Meine Frau ist gleichberechtigt
1979 Sturm über dem Gipfel
1979 Schule gestern – Schule morgen
1980 Boeing-Boeing Marc Camoletti
1981 Barfuß im Park Neil Simon
1984 Hier sind sie richtig Marc Camoletti
1984 Brave Diebe Jack Popplewell
1986 Wie in einem Spinnennetz Agatha Christie
1987 Die Herberge ist heute hier Hans Ewald Tegtmeyer Youth Christmas play, parish church St. Katharina
1988 Liebling, ich bin da! Jack Popplewell
1989 Heulalia und das große Lachen Regine Feldhusen-Klutmann Youth production
1989 Der Mann, der sich nicht traut Curth Flatow
1989 Gesucht un gefunne and Schoattespille Willi Schoth Elz dialect; performed in Elz and Niedererbach
1990 Gefährliche Kurven J. B. Priestley
1991 Ein Sommernachtstraum William Shakespeare Open-air, Neumühle, Elz
1992 Der kleine Muck Wilhelm Hauff
1992 Der Engel, der immer zu spät kam Heidelore Kluge Youth Christmas play
1993 Schweig, Bub! Fitzgerald Kusz Westerwald dialect; guest performance in Elz
1993 Lauf doch nicht immer weg
1994 Der fröhliche Weinberg Carl Zuckmayer Open-air, Neumühle, Elz
1995 Der Neurosenkavalier
1995 Öffnet ihm und lasst ihn ein Youth Christmas play, parish church St. Katharina
1996 Der Mörder and Die tote Tante Curt Goetz Two one-act plays
1996 Vampire waren auch nur Menschen Sören Pahl and Jens Würfel Youth production (U16)
1996 Die Schneekönigin after Hans Christian Andersen, adapted by Joachim Prasser Youth production (U16)
1997 Soldatenglück after Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Minna von Barnhelm)
1997 Der Weg des vierten Königs version by Annemarie Krapp Youth Advent play (U16), parish church
1998 Sherlock Holmes und das gefleckte Band Kurt Finke Youth production (U16)
1998 Dalli Dalli Damenrunde after Neil Simon (Ein ungleiches Paar, female version) First production in the Haus Erlenbach
1999 Das Spiel von Liebe und Zufall Pierre de Marivaux Open-air, Schloss Molsberg, as part of the Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz
2000 König Klaus sucht eine Frau Hannelore Möller Youth production (U16)
2000 Hurra – ein Junge! Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach
2001 Ein Sommernachtstraum William Shakespeare Revival of the 1991 production; open-air, first production on the "Alter Sportplatz" stage
2002 Die Hexe und ihr Zauberberg Adolf Bay Youth production (U16)
2002 Da waren's nur noch neun after Agatha Christie
2003 Katharina Knie Carl Zuckmayer Open-air, "Alter Sportplatz"
2004 Frau Holle version by Waldrud Ritzel Young and adult performers
2005 Hugo oder Ein Mann für Mama! Werner Schulte Youth production (U16)
2005 Der Wahlk(r)ampf Wilfried Reinehr
2006 Großer Gott, wir loben Dich after Ludwig Anzengruber (Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld) Open-air; for the centenary of the parish church St. Katharina
2007 Die Perle Anna Marc Camoletti
2007 Passion play
2008 Ein Inspektor kommt J. B. Priestley
2009 Die Weihnachtsmann-Falle Kurt Finke Youth production (U16); postponed from December 2008
2009 Das Wirtshaus im Spessart after Wilhelm Hauff, adapted by George Isherwood Open-air, "Alter Sportplatz"
2010 Das Zauberkissen Peter Klusen Youth production (U16)
2011 Außer Kontrolle Ray Cooney
2012 Der Hexenschuss John Graham
2013 Der Seelenbrecher Sebastian Fitzek Thriller[19]
2014 Funny Money Ray Cooney
2015 Vier scharfe Richterinnen Leslie Darbon Open-air, "Alter Sportplatz"
2015 Reloaded – Die Weihnachtsgeschichte Youth production
2018 Taxi Taxi Ray Cooney Postponed from November 2017
2019 Plötzlich und unerwartet Thriller
2023 Nächste Runde geht aufs Haus [13]
2026 Mord im Luftschiff oder Ein Schuss ins Blaue Crime dinner show, Haus Erlenbach[14]

Venue

The group's indoor productions take place in the "Haus Erlenbach" in the centre of Niedererbach, where the club also has its own rooms.[20] For open-air productions it uses the natural stage on the "Alter Sportplatz", a former sports ground. For its first production there in 2001, the members dug a trench from the railway viaduct to the old barbecue hut themselves to lay water and power lines, and later built a raised stage area in front of a rubble-stone wall.[21][2] After a pause of six years, the open-air stage was used again in 2015.[2]

Organisation

Besides its own venue, the group has given guest performances in neighbouring towns, several of them at the invitation of the Kulturförderverein of the Verbandsgemeinde Wallmerod.[22][23] It traditionally holds a New Year reception.[16][23] In 2014 it entered its 2013 production Der Seelenbrecher for the Deutscher Amateurtheaterpreis amarena.[19] At the end of 2019 the group signed the Rhineland-Palatinate Erklärung der Vielen.[1][15]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Über uns, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 9 May 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Niedererbacher Theaterfreunde: Was für ein Theater!, Frankfurter Neue Presse (Nassauische Neue Presse), 2 February 2016, retrieved 27 October 2026.
  3. ↑ 1977 – Die ersten Aufführungen, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  4. ↑ 1978 – „Wahrheit, Liebe, Kraft und Tempo“ & „Meine Frau ist gleichberechtigt“, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  5. ↑ 1978-1979 – Fastnachtsaktivitäten, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  6. ↑ 1978-2000 – Intensive Nachwuchsarbeit, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  7. ↑ 1992 – „Der Engel, der immer zu spät kam“, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  8. ↑ 1996 – „Vampire waren auch nur Menschen“ & Kindertheatertag, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  9. ↑ 1991 – „Ein Sommenachtstraum“, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  10. ↑ 1995 – Jahr des Umbruchs, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  11. ↑ 1998 – „Dalli Dalli Damenrunde“, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  12. ↑ 2001 – Jubiläumswochenende, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Der Vorverkauf startet!, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., 4 October 2023, retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Mord im Luftschiff – unser Krimi & Dinner!, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., 6 September 2026, retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Aktuelles, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Chronik & Galerien, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  17. ↑ 1989 – „Gesucht und gefonne“ & „Schoattespille“, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 1993 – „Schweig, Bub!“, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 „amarena“ lockt Amateurbühnen. Bewerbung um den Deutschen Theaterpreis, newspaper clipping (2014) reproduced on the website of theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  20. ↑ Mord im Luftschiff, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  21. ↑ 2001 – „Ein Sommernachtstraum“, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  22. ↑ 2002 – „Da waren’s nur noch neun“, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 27 October 2026.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 2018 – “Taxi Taxi”, theaterfreunde niedererbach 1976 e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. Archived on 9 May 2026.
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