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'''Mund-ART-Theater "Meenzer Rhoiadel e.V."''' is an amateur theatre group from [[wikipedia:Mombach|Mombach]], a district of [[wikipedia:Mainz|Mainz]], [[wikipedia:Rhineland-Palatinate|Rhineland-Palatinate]], Germany, that performs comedies in the Mainz dialect.<ref name="start2016" /> Founded in 2000, it played for many years in the Auktionshaus Schnappenberger in Mombach and has given guest performances in [[wikipedia:Bodenheim|Bodenheim]] since 2022.<ref name="jl2022" />

== History ==
The theatre was founded in the summer of 2000 with the aim of cultivating and preserving the Mainz dialect.<ref name="home2003" /> According to the group, it was started by a Mainz author and several like-minded people, most of whom had previously belonged to the Mainzer Seniorenbühne.<ref name="start2016" /> The city of Mainz's register of associations gives 17 August 2000 as the founding date;<ref name="mainzvr" /> a 2022 press report gives the founding year as 2001.<ref name="jl2022" /> The name refers to the Mainz expression "Meenzer Rhoiadel", used for the pensioners who used to sit and talk on the Mainz bank of the Rhine.<ref name="start2016" />

In early 2016 the association had more than 60 members.<ref name="start2016" /> It played two seasons a year, with more than 50 performers over time.<ref name="jl2022" /> In 2015 the group marked its 15th anniversary.<ref name="news2016" />

In 2018 the ownership of the area around the Phönixhalle changed, and the group could no longer afford to use its theatre there. After a short period at another location, where regular performances could not be established, it searched for a new home from 2018 onwards. A cooperation with the association Applaus e.V. in Bodenheim then made the Dolles-Keller available as a venue for joint projects; the first performances there, of ''Die Mumbacher Klappsmiehl'', took place in April 2022 under the motto "Wir leben noch" ("We are still alive").<ref name="jl2022" /> The group returned to the Dolles-Keller with the same play in 2023 and 2024.<ref name="jl2024" />

== Repertoire ==
The group mainly stages comedies in the Mainz dialect, set in or around Mainz, but has also performed adaptations of world literature such as ''[[wikipedia:The Little Prince|Der kleine Prinz]]'' and satirical pieces.<ref name="start2016" /><ref name="organizer2016" /> Several of its plays were written by its own authors.<ref name="organizer2016" /> In addition to new productions, older comedies were regularly revived; in the first half of 2015, for example, the group played four different comedies in its own venue.<ref name="news2016" /> Other plays in its repertoire, without known production years, include ''De Barbier vun Meenz'', ''De Liebeskasper vun de Vilzbach'', ''Die geheern allminonner in die Hoppla'', ''Ein Einbrecher zuviel'', ''Es Wunner vun Meenz'', ''Hau' endlich ab – Verabschiedung in den Vorruhestand'', ''Komme die oder komme die annern'' (short pieces by authors from [[wikipedia:Kurt Tucholsky|Kurt Tucholsky]] to Horst Helfrich), ''Meenzer Wertschaftspolitik'' and ''Zwää dolle Dollbohrer in Paris'',<ref name="frueher2019" /> as well as ''Die Goldgrub'', an adaptation after Laufs and Jacoby,<ref name="goldgrub2019" /> and ''Außer Kontrolle!'', an adaptation of [[wikipedia:Ray Cooney|Ray Cooney]]'s ''[[wikipedia:Out of Order (play)|Out of Order]]''.<ref name="ausserkontrolle2019" />

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Productions (incomplete)
! Year !! Title !! Author !! Notes
|-
| 2003 || ''Was Liehbeidel'' || Eleonore Gierlichs || In the repertoire in December 2003<ref name="home2003" />
|-
| 2003 || ''Was en Halles weesche dene Kaktusse'' || Eleonore Gierlichs || In the repertoire in December 2003;<ref name="home2003" /> still played in 2015<ref name="news2016" />
|-
| 2003 || ''Rotkäppchen und der gute Wolf'' || Eleonore Gierlichs || Adapted fairy tale; in the repertoire in December 2003<ref name="home2003" />
|-
| 2003 || ''Raphael in den Zeugenstand'' || Horst Helfrich || New in the repertoire in December 2003<ref name="home2003" />
|-
| 2007 || ''Der kleine Prinz'' || Markus Andres, after [[wikipedia:Antoine de Saint-Exupéry|Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] || First performance in the Mainz dialect<ref name="frueher2019" />
|-
| 2014 || ''Die Mumbacher Klappsmiehl'' || || Premiere 28 November 2014<ref name="news2016" />
|-
| 2016 || ''Die drei Wingertsknorze'' || Maximilian Vitus || Rural comedy in a Mainz–Rhenish Hessian version; premiere 8 April 2016<ref name="news2016" />
|-
| 2018 || ''Uff de eebsch Seid'' || Markus Andres || <ref name="lvat" /><ref name="eebsch2016" />
|-
| 2022 || ''Die Mumbacher Klappsmiehl'' || || Revival; Dolles-Keller, Bodenheim, 22 and 23 April 2022<ref name="jl2022" />
|-
| 2023 || ''Die Mumbacher Klappsmiehl'' || || Revival; Dolles-Keller, Bodenheim<ref name="jl2024" /><ref name="lvat" />
|-
| 2024 || ''Die Mumbacher Klappsmiehl'' || || Revival; Dolles-Keller, Bodenheim, 24 and 25 May 2024<ref name="jl2024" />
|-
| 2026 || ''Gauner unn Halunke'' || Peter Landstorfer || <ref name="lvat" /><ref name="gauner2019" />
|}

== Venue ==
For many years the group played in the Auktionshaus Schnappenberger, Hauptstraße 17–19 in Mainz-Mombach, on the former site of a railway carriage factory opposite the Phönixhalle. The theatre room there had about 130 seats.<ref name="start2016" /> Since 2022 the group has performed in the Dolles-Keller in Bodenheim.<ref name="jl2022" /><ref name="jl2024" />

== Organisation ==
The group finances itself solely through ticket sales and receives no subsidies from the city of Mainz.<ref name="start2016" /><ref name="jl2022" /> Its performances in Bodenheim are organised in cooperation with Applaus e.V. Bodenheim.<ref name="jl2022" />

== References ==
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<ref name="start2016">[https://web.archive.org/web/20160128183208/http://rhoiadel.de/3/ Meenzer Rhoiadel], Mund-ART-Theater "Meenzer Rhoiadel e.V.", archived 28 January 2016, retrieved 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="home2003">[https://web.archive.org/web/20031210010423/http://www.rhoiadel.de:80/ Home], Mund-ART-Theater "Meenzer Rhoiadel e.V.", archived 10 December 2003, retrieved 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="organizer2016">[https://web.archive.org/web/20160309100747/http://rhoiadel.de:80/3/index.php/kartenverkauf/kartenverkauf/organizer/1-mund-art-theater-meenzer-rhoiadel Kartenverkauf – Mund-ART-Theater "Meenzer Rhoiadel"], Mund-ART-Theater "Meenzer Rhoiadel e.V.", archived 9 March 2016, retrieved 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="news2016">[https://web.archive.org/web/20160309120045/http://rhoiadel.de:80/3/index.php/babbelseite/unsere-bisherigen-infobriefe Unsere bisherigen Infobriefe], Mund-ART-Theater "Meenzer Rhoiadel e.V.", archived 9 March 2016, retrieved 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="frueher2019">[https://web.archive.org/web/20190824155602/http://rhoiadel.de/3/index.php/de-rhoiadel/blick-zurueck/vorstellungen-von-frueher Vorstellungen von früher], Mund-ART-Theater "Meenzer Rhoiadel e.V.", archived 24 August 2019, retrieved 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="eebsch2016">[https://web.archive.org/web/20160309120302/http://rhoiadel.de:80/3/index.php/vorstellungen/uff-de-eebsch-seid Uff de eebsch Seid], Mund-ART-Theater "Meenzer Rhoiadel e.V.", archived 9 March 2016, retrieved 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="goldgrub2019">[https://web.archive.org/web/20190824161020/http://rhoiadel.de/3/index.php/vorstellungen/die-goldgrub Die Goldgrub], Mund-ART-Theater "Meenzer Rhoiadel e.V.", archived 24 August 2019, retrieved 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="ausserkontrolle2019">[https://web.archive.org/web/20190824153655/http://rhoiadel.de/3/index.php/vorstellungen/ausser-kontrolle Außer Kontrolle!], Mund-ART-Theater "Meenzer Rhoiadel e.V.", archived 24 August 2019, retrieved 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="gauner2019">[https://web.archive.org/web/20190918180354/http://rhoiadel.de/3/index.php/vorstellungen/gauner-unn-halunke Gauner unn Halunke], Mund-ART-Theater "Meenzer Rhoiadel e.V.", archived 18 September 2019, retrieved 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="mainzvr">[https://www.mainz.de/en/verzeichnisse/vereinsverzeichnis/Mund-ART-Theater__Meenzer_Rhoiadel__e.V Mund-ART-Theater "Meenzer Rhoiadel" e.V.], Vereinsverzeichnis, Landeshauptstadt Mainz, retrieved 27 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261028083900/https://www.mainz.de/en/verzeichnisse/vereinsverzeichnis/Mund-ART-Theater__Meenzer_Rhoiadel__e.V Archived] on 28 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="jl2022">[https://web.archive.org/web/20240228222837/https://journal-lokal.de/meenzer-rhoiadel-gastiert-in-bodenheim/ „Wir leben noch“ – "Meenzer Rhoiadel" gastiert in Bodenheim], Journal Lokal, 29 March 2022, archived 28 February 2024, retrieved 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="jl2024">[https://journal-lokal.de/spass-klamauk-und-viel-gebabbel/ Spaß, Klamauk und viel Gebabbel], Journal Lokal, 3 May 2024, retrieved 27 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261028083933/https://journal-lokal.de/spass-klamauk-und-viel-gebabbel/ Archived] on 28 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="lvat">[https://theaterrlp.de/mitgliedsbuehnen/ Mitgliedsbühnen], Landesverband Amateurtheater Rheinland-Pfalz e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20260611224232/https://theaterrlp.de/mitgliedsbuehnen/ Archived] on 11 June 2026.</ref>
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