Theaterverein Rott am Inn

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Theaterverein Rott am Inn e. V. is an amateur theatre group in Rott am Inn, district of Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria, Germany. Founded in 1989, it stages rural comedies, boulevard comedies, crime plays and religious plays, mainly in the parish hall (Pfarrsaal) of Rott, and also organises cabaret evenings with guest artists. It has more than 275 members.

History

Theatre in Rott am Inn was revived by the local Catholic rural youth (KLJB). As its members grew too old for the youth organisation, 15 of them and one other theatre enthusiast met in the parish hall in February 1989, following an invitation in the Wasserburger Zeitung, to found a theatre club. The first general meeting on 20 March 1989 adopted the statutes and elected the first board; by then the club had 89 members. On 1 January 1991 it joined the Verband Bayerischer Amateurtheater e. V. and the Bund Deutscher Amateurtheater (BDAT).

The club has played every year except 2002, when the parish hall was used by the kindergarten, and 2017, because of illness; in many years it gave two productions. In 1993 it staged its first passion play, Frau Pilatus – Der Prozess Jesu, and in 1994 its first musical theatre production, Die schöne Lügnerin. The Lower Bavarian Singspiel Der Holledauer Fidel, staged with the local choral society, drew 1,254 spectators. Its religious plays Die Legionäre and Der Pakt mit dem Teufel – Theophilus in Not were performed in the churches of Rott and of Branzoll in South Tyrol; Theophilus was also shown at an international theatre festival in Abtenau, Austria, and at the BDAT festival Wurzelwerk in Sulzbach.

The club celebrated its 25th anniversary on 22 March 2014 and its 30th on 6 April 2019 with a festival of seven sketches. No plays were staged in 2020 and 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic; instead the club held sketch evenings. While the parish hall was being rebuilt, the club played in the hall of the Landgasthof Stechl and staged historical guided tours around the former monastery; in spring 2026 it returned to the renovated parish hall after almost six years.

Repertoire

The club has aimed to stage not only rural comedies but also boulevard theatre and crime plays.

Productions

Year	Title	Notes
1989	Keine Leiche ohne Lily	Crime comedy; first production
1990	Die Witwen	Comedy
1990	Der selige Florian	Farce
1991	Hexenhaar und Teufelsdreck	Comedy
1991	Die alte Kommode	Comedy
1991	Kamillentee und kalte Füße	Play
1991	Wehe, wenn´s ein Junge wird	Comedy
1992	Kurzschlüsse	Comedy
1992	Die Ersatzbraut	Burlesque
1992	Süss wie Zucker	Comedy
1993	Jedem die Seine	Comedy
1993	Frau Pilatus	Passion play
1994	Die schöne Lügnerin	Musical comedy
1994	Magdalena	Rural tragedy
1995	Der Brandner Kaspar und das ewig´ Leben	Comedy
1996	Der Geisterbräu	Comedy
1997	Der fidele Hausl	Farce with music
1998	Birnbaum und Hollerstauden	Bavarian mystery play
1999	Pension Schöller	Farce
2000	Und ewig rauschen die Gelder	Comedy
2001	Charleys Tante	Farce
2003	Alles ändert sich	Comedy
2003	Zehn kleine Negerlein	Crime play
2004	Der Holledauer Fidel	Lower Bavarian Singspiel
2005	Die kleinen Verwandten	Comedy
2005	Brautschau	Comedy
2005	Lottchens Geburtstag	Comedy
2006	Der Neurosenkavalier	Comedy
2006	Frau Pilatus	Passion play
2007	Die drei Eisbären	Rural comedy
2007	Die Legionäre	Passion play; performed in the parish church
2007	Heiratskrieg am Bründlhof	Farce
2008	Leg doch mal die Nonne um	Crime comedy
2008	Männer im Schrank	Comic one-act play
2009	Komödie der Irrungen	Comedy
2009	Alles Anders	Comedy
2010	Fleischpflanzl in Outer Space	Comedy
2011	Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen	Crime comedy
2011	Der Pakt mit dem Teufel – Theophilus in Not	Christian mystery play; performed in the parish church
2012	Gspenstermacher	Farce
2013	Eine verhängnisvolle Nacht	Comedy
2013	Die Gerichtsverhandlung	Farce
2013	Die Ungetreuen	Passion play
2014	Alles neu, macht der Mai	Comedy of errors
2014	Der Pakt mit dem Teufel – Theophilus in Not	Christian mystery play; performed in the parish church
2015	Fuaßball Kini	Farce
2016	Aphrodites Zimmer	Comedy
2018	Aus der Traum	Comedy
2019	S´Elädrische	Comic Volksstück
2022	Historische Ortsführung um das Kloster	Historical play (guided village tour)
2023 & 24	Teufelsbrut	Murder-mystery dinner
2024	Polnische Wirtschaft oder Gute Lügen leben länger	Comedy
2024	Historische Ortsführung um das Kloster	Historical play (guided village tour)
2025	Der zerbrochne Krug	Comedy
2026	Zapp-Zarapp	Comedy; first production on the new stage in the Pfarrsaal

Venue

The club's stage is in the parish hall of Rott am Inn at Haager Straße 7. The club equipped the stage and hall with modern technology, financed by donations from local firms and the municipality, and inaugurated the new stage in 2026. During the renovation it played in the hall of the Landgasthof Stechl.

Organisation

The club is closely linked with the Catholic parish of Rott. Its youth group, started on 17 September 2008, has performed children's plays, nativity plays and sketches, including at the local clinic; it was restarted in 2018 and again in 2024. In 2010 the club signed a cooperation agreement with the primary and secondary school in Rott, supporting school theatre with equipment, costumes and advice. In 2013 it founded the Theaterdreieck with the Musik- und Theaterverein Attel and the Laienspielgruppe Pfaffing, for joint evenings of one-act plays. Since 1995 it has organised 23 cabaret evenings with guest artists such as Luise Kinseher and Michl Müller, with more than 2,600 spectators in total.