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'''Jugendtheater Wellen''' is an amateur youth theatre group in [[wikipedia:Wellen, Rhineland-Palatinate|Wellen]] on the [[wikipedia:Moselle|Moselle]], Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Each year during [[wikipedia:Advent|Advent]] it stages a well-known [[wikipedia:Fairy tale|fairy tale]] for audiences of all ages.<ref name="about" />

== History ==
According to the group's own account, it began when two mothers rehearsed a fairy-tale play with five girls in the village and performed it for the children of the local kindergarten. At the kindergarten's suggestion the play was repeated for a wider audience. Over the following years the cast grew from five to twelve children, with boys joining the girls, the audience from about 100 to 600 spectators and the run from two to seven performances.<ref name="about" /> The group celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2019, which dates its beginnings to 2004; the proceeds of that year's two performance weekends were announced as a donation to a charitable cause.<ref name="news2019" />

== Repertoire ==
The group performs adaptations of well-known fairy tales, written and directed by its director, which may depart from the originals. Productions listed by the group include ''Hänsel und Gretel'', ''Aschenputtel'', ''Der kleine Muck'' (staged twice), ''Schneewittchen'', ''Der Zauberer von Oz'', ''Der Räuber Hotzenplotz'', ''Der Froschkönig'', ''Frau Holle'' and ''Der Wolf und die sieben Geißlein''.<ref name="about" /> Its website also showed a production of ''Rudolf mit der roten Nase''.<ref name="rudolf" /> ''Aschenputtel'' was performed in 2018.<ref name="lvat2023" /> In November 2019 the group staged ''Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge'', freely adapted from the [[wikipedia:Brothers Grimm|Brothers Grimm]], over two weekends.<ref name="news2019" /><ref name="dates2019" />

== References ==
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<ref name="about">[https://web.archive.org/web/20190826080606/https://jugendtheater-wellen.de/ueber-uns/ Über uns], Jugendtheater Wellen (archived 26 August 2019), retrieved 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="news2019">[https://web.archive.org/web/20190826075527/https://jugendtheater-wellen.de/aktuelles/ Aktuelles: „15 Jahre Jugendtheater Wellen“], Jugendtheater Wellen (archived 26 August 2019), retrieved 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="dates2019">[https://web.archive.org/web/20190826075340/https://jugendtheater-wellen.de/demnaechst/ Demnächst], Jugendtheater Wellen (archived 26 August 2019), retrieved 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="rudolf">[https://web.archive.org/web/20190826072914/https://jugendtheater-wellen.de/rudolf-mit-der-roten-nase/ Rudolf mit der roten Nase], Jugendtheater Wellen (archived 26 August 2019), retrieved 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="lvat2023">[https://web.archive.org/web/20230925030309/https://theaterrlp.de/mitgliedsbuehnen/ Mitgliedsbühnen], Landesverband Amateurtheater Rheinland-Pfalz e. V. (archived 25 September 2023), retrieved 27 October 2026.</ref>
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