Theaterverein Spieltrieb e.V.

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Theaterverein Spieltrieb e.V.

Founded	January 2015
Members	50 (as of 2026)
Legal form	Registered association (eingetragener Verein)
Member of	Lan­des­ver­band Ama­teur­thea­ter Rheinland-Pfalz Association of German Amateur Theater
Location
Headquarters	Q552671
Country	Germany
Links
Website	verein-spieltrieb.de
Social media	Facebook · Instagram
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Theaterverein Spieltrieb e.V. is an amateur theatre group based in Waldmohr, Kusel district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Founded in January 2015 by a theatre educator, it has staged spoken plays and, since 2019, mainly original musicals written within the group.

History

The ensemble formed in 2015 and gave its first production in 2016, Ray Cooney's comedy Funny Money, with 15 performers in Waldmohr and Sulzbach. Young people from a cooperation project with the Jugendhaus Waldmohr soon joined, and the group premiered its first original musical, Eterno Cardeas – Wir sind die Macht. In 2017 it staged Tracy Letts's drama Eine Familie (August: Osage County), after which it turned to producing its own musicals.

The youth musical #vollamok (2019), about a school shooting and set entirely in a classroom, was developed together with the twelve young performers and played four times. After a break in rehearsals during the COVID-19 pandemic, the group returned in 2023 with the country musical comedy Welcome to New Hazel, set in a fictional small town in Texas and produced together with the dance school Tanzmanufaktur from Limbach; the casting workshop had been held in October 2021 and rehearsals ran from autumn 2021 to spring 2023. With an ensemble of 38 and an elaborate set, it was the group's largest production to date.

In April 2025 the group marked its tenth anniversary with a show revisiting its musicals, performed by an ensemble of 40. A new musical, Die Königin von Ferrovia, was cast in May 2025; its premiere is scheduled for October 2026.

Repertoire

After two spoken plays by established playwrights, the group has concentrated on original musicals whose book is written by its director, with music by composers from its circle; its youth section also performs self-written musicals.

Productions (incomplete)

Year	Title	Author	Notes
2016	Funny Money	Ray Cooney	Comedy; first production
2017	Eine Familie	Tracy Letts	Drama
2019	#vollamok	original	Youth musical; 3rd prize, KultDING 2020
2023	Welcome to New Hazel	original	Country musical comedy; Gebläsehalle Neunkirchen and Fritz-Wunderlich-Halle, Kusel
2024	Damals. Heute. Ewig.	original	Musical drama
2025	10 Jahre Spieltrieb – Die Jubiläumsshow	original	Anniversary revue; Gebläsehalle Neunkirchen
2026	Die Königin von Ferrovia	original	Musical; premiere scheduled for October 2026

The group's first original musical, Eterno Cardeas – Wir sind die Macht, was staged between the 2016 and 2017 productions.

Venue

The group has no theatre of its own. Its larger productions have been played in the Gebläsehalle in Neunkirchen (Saarland) and the Fritz-Wunderlich-Halle in Kusel; the Gebläsehalle also hosted the anniversary show in 2025 and the performances scheduled for late October and early November 2026. Castings have been held in Waldmohr's Kulturhalle and Bürgerhaus.

Awards

In 2020 #vollamok won the 3rd prize (1,500 euros) of the KultDING, the award of the LOTTO Rheinland-Pfalz – Stiftung for exemplary socio-cultural projects with children and young people in Rhineland-Palatinate. The project was also rated as exemplary (vorbildlich) by the Bündnis für Demokratie und Toleranz and received 2,000 euros.