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The '''freies theaterwerk gavroche e. V.''' is an independent amateur theatre association in [[wikipedia:Berlin|Berlin]], Germany, active mainly in the Schöneweide area of [[wikipedia:Treptow-Köpenick|Treptow-Köpenick]]. Named after [[wikipedia:Gavroche|Gavroche]], the street boy in [[wikipedia:Victor Hugo|Victor Hugo]]'s ''Les Misérables'', it describes itself as a working community for "culture of living" that uses theatre as its medium, with a focus on children and young people.<ref name="wer" />

== Aims ==
The association aims to ensure that children and young people in particular, but also adults, are not excluded from culture for financial or other reasons. It sees its work as socio-cultural and theatre as a "school of life", and seeks to bring together young people from eastern and western Berlin districts and from different ethnic backgrounds, as well as different generations. Its projects may cooperate with professional artists and outside institutions.<ref name="wer" />

== Productions and projects ==
In 2014, the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, the association took part in a trinational youth theatre project with partners from France and [[wikipedia:North Macedonia|North Macedonia]] on the theme of peace, with one-week meetings in [[wikipedia:Lyon|Lyon]] in August, in Berlin in October and November, and in [[wikipedia:Tetovo|Tetovo]] in spring 2015, each ending in a performance. The German side was directed by Saskia Thomas.<ref name="international" />

In March 2017 it premiered a devised performance in the nave of the Christuskirche in Oberschöneweide, in which ten young people in a flat-share face three questions: how they want to live, how they want to die and what they stand up for. The production, under the artistic direction of Saskia Lily Thomas, was made with no budget. The group has also performed classic fairy tales each Christmas, a tradition that grew out of a "walking Advent calendar" in Schöneweide.<ref name="inszenierungen" />

In 2024 the association organised an international youth theatre residency in Berlin and a German-French theatre performance, and started a new theatre group for people aged 15 to 35 that developed a collage on the theme of "in-between spaces" for performance in spring 2025.<ref name="home" /><ref name="schule" />

== References ==
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<ref name="wer">[https://www.theaterwerk-gavroche.de/wer%20oder%20was%20ist%20gavroche Wer oder was ist Gavroche], freies theaterwerk gavroche e.V., retrieved 14 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261014201826/https://www.theaterwerk-gavroche.de/wer%20oder%20was%20ist%20gavroche Archived] on 14 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="international">[https://www.theaterwerk-gavroche.de/internationale%20theaterprojekte Internationale Theaterprojekte], freies theaterwerk gavroche e.V., retrieved 14 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261014201903/https://www.theaterwerk-gavroche.de/internationale%20theaterprojekte Archived] on 14 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="inszenierungen">[https://www.theaterwerk-gavroche.de/inszenierungen Inszenierungen], freies theaterwerk gavroche e.V., retrieved 14 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261014201944/https://www.theaterwerk-gavroche.de/inszenierungen Archived] on 14 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="home">[https://www.theaterwerk-gavroche.de/home Freies Theaterwerk Gavroche e.V.], freies theaterwerk gavroche e.V., retrieved 14 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20260614154431/https://www.theaterwerk-gavroche.de/home Archived] on 14 June 2026.</ref>
<ref name="schule">[https://www.theaterwerk-gavroche.de/theaterschule Theaterschule], freies theaterwerk gavroche e.V., retrieved 14 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261014202028/https://www.theaterwerk-gavroche.de/theaterschule Archived] on 14 October 2026.</ref>
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