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The '''Laienspielgruppe Polle e. V.''' is an amateur open-air theatre group in [[wikipedia:Polle|Polle]] in the [[wikipedia:Holzminden (district)|district of Holzminden]], Lower Saxony, Germany.<ref name="impressum" /> Founded in 1986, it continues the tradition of the Polle castle festival plays of the 1930s and 1950s and performs on two stages in the ruins of Polle Castle.<ref name="home" />

== History ==
Polle had castle festival plays (''Burgfestspiele'') in 1930–35 and 1948–60 that were known beyond the region. The first post-war theatre group, the ''junge bühne burg polle'', was founded in 1953 and existed until the early 1960s; it staged Goethe's ''Urfaust'', Kleist's ''Der zerbrochne Krug'', ''Ein Sommernachtstraum'', ''Das Käthchen von Heilbronn'', ''Wilhelm Tell'' and other plays at the castle, and guest-performed at the festival weeks in Bad Gandersheim in its second year. In 1956 it premiered three productions within four weeks, including the world premiere of Werner Schwenke's ''Frauen und Männer um Münchhausen'' in [[wikipedia:Bodenwerder|Bodenwerder]]. In 1958 the festival plays drew 42,000 spectators to 38 performances; from then on only the [[wikipedia:Landestheater Detmold|Landestheater Detmold]] performed, and after many performances were lost to bad weather the festival ended in 1961.<ref name="ueberuns" />

In 1986 Dietrich Müller founded the Laienspielgruppe Polle e. V. with 16 residents to continue the tradition.<ref name="ueberuns" /> In 2025 the energy company Westfalen Weser recognised the group as a "cultural flagship" of the region with its ''WWKulturpreis''.<ref name="radioaktiv2025" />

== Repertoire ==
The group plays classics, comedies and fairy tales on the two stages of the castle ruins – the upper castle (''Oberburg'') and the ''Amtshof'' – and on request elsewhere. A fixed part of its programme is a 30-minute ''[[wikipedia:Cinderella|Aschenputtel]]'' play, performed with free admission at 3 pm on the fourth Sunday of each month from May to September on the upper castle stage, with the youngest members playing the doves.<ref name="home" /><ref name="aschenputtel" />

== Venue ==
The group performs in the ruins of Polle Castle; its stage address is Amtsstraße 4 in Polle.<ref name="home" /><ref name="impressum" />

== Organisation ==
The group organises Polle's pumpkin market (''Kürbismarkt'').<ref name="home" />

== Awards ==
In 2025 the group received the ''WWKulturpreis25'' of the energy supplier Westfalen Weser as a "cultural flagship of the region", with prize money of 1,000 euros; the award ceremony was held at the Stadttheater Minden.<ref name="radioaktiv2025" /><ref name="news2025" />

== References ==
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<ref name="home">[https://www.lsgp.de/ Herzlich Willkommen bei der Laienspielgruppe Polle], Laienspielgruppe Polle e. V., retrieved 28 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261029081719/https://www.lsgp.de/ Archived] on 29 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="ueberuns">[https://www.lsgp.de/seite/193387/%C3%BCber-uns.html Über uns], Laienspielgruppe Polle e. V., retrieved 28 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261029081748/https://www.lsgp.de/seite/193387/%C3%BCber-uns.html Archived] on 29 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="aschenputtel">[https://www.lsgp.de/seite/193480/aschenputtel.html Aschenputtel], Laienspielgruppe Polle e. V., retrieved 28 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261029081910/https://www.lsgp.de/seite/193480/aschenputtel.html Archived] on 29 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="impressum">[https://www.lsgp.de/impressum/index.php Impressum], Laienspielgruppe Polle e. V., retrieved 28 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261029081936/https://www.lsgp.de/impressum/index.php Archived] on 29 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="news2025">[https://www.lsgp.de/news/1/1114597/nachrichten/wwkulturpreis25-westfalen-weser-wuerdigt-die-laienspielgruppe-aus-polle-als-kulturelles-vorzeigeprojekte-der-region.html WWKulturpreis25: Westfalen Weser würdigt die Laienspielgruppe aus Polle …], Laienspielgruppe Polle e. V., 2 September 2025, retrieved 28 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261029082059/https://www.lsgp.de/news/1/1114597/nachrichten/wwkulturpreis25-westfalen-weser-wuerdigt-die-laienspielgruppe-aus-polle-als-kulturelles-vorzeigeprojekte-der-region.html Archived] on 29 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="radioaktiv2025">[https://www.radio-aktiv.de/2025/09/03/weserbergland-wwkulturpreis25-fuer-laienspielgruppe-aus-polle/ Weserbergland: WWKulturpreis25 für Laienspielgruppe aus Polle], Radio Aktiv, 3 September 2025, retrieved 28 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261029082219/https://www.radio-aktiv.de/2025/09/03/weserbergland-wwkulturpreis25-fuer-laienspielgruppe-aus-polle/ Archived] on 29 October 2026.</ref>
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