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The '''Theater in der Frauentorstraße e. V.''' ('''TiF''') is an amateur theatre association in [[wikipedia:Augsburg|Augsburg]], Bavaria, Germany. Its history goes back to 1885, and since 1960 it has played in the hall of the Kolpinghaus in the Frauentorstraße, after which it is named.<ref name="ueber" /><ref name="aj" /> It stages one production a year, mostly comedies and modern plays.<ref name="home" /><ref name="aj" />

== History ==
The association was founded in 1885 as the ''Dramatisches Monatskränzchen''. It was renamed ''Unterhaltungsverein Einigkeit'' in 1887 and ''Theaterverein Einigkeit e. V.'' in 1925; after an orchestra section was added in 1932 it became the ''Theater- und Orchesterverein Einigkeit''. In 1946, as the ''Volksspielgruppe Augsburg'', it was the first theatre group to be licensed again after the war by the US cultural department. In 1957 the ''Volksspielgruppe Augsburg-Pfersee'' gave up to six productions per season in the Weißenburger Hof; in 1960 the ''Volksspiele Augsburg'' moved into the hall of the Kolpinghaus, and in 1973 the ''Amateurtheater Volksspiele Augsburg e. V.'' was entered in the register of associations.<ref name="ueber" /> The present name dates from the 1990s.<ref name="aj" />

After the death of its long-time director in 1977, the group changed its programme: because Augsburg already had many dialect theatres, it turned to more demanding boulevard comedies.<ref name="ueber" /> A production of ''Peter Pan'' in 1995 involved 17 children, and in 2001 the group gave the first performance in Swabian of Fitzgerald Kusz's ''Dr letschte Wille''. The group celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2010 with a festive premiere. In 2018 it moved temporarily to the Haus Augustinus near St. Georg while the Kolpinghaus was being rebuilt. Because of the [[wikipedia:COVID-19 pandemic in Germany|COVID-19 pandemic]] it did not perform in 2020 and 2021. It celebrated its 140th anniversary in 2025.<ref name="ueber" />

== Repertoire ==
Up to the 1970s the group also played Bavarian dialect pieces such as [[wikipedia:Ludwig Thoma|Ludwig Thoma]]'s ''Moral'' and ''Die Lokalbahn''; since then it has concentrated on comedies and modern plays from the international repertoire, including occasional children's productions such as ''Momo'' and ''Pippi Langstrumpf'' (2005).<ref name="ueber" /><ref name="gallery" /> According to its chronicle the 2017 production of ''Boeing-Boeing'' revived a play it had first staged 39 years earlier.<ref name="ueber" /> The following list combines the group's former production gallery, its current production pages and its chronicle; no productions are listed for most years before 1973 and for 1974–1976, 1979, 1981–1982, 1987, 1992 and 1997.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Productions (incomplete)<ref name="gallery" /><ref name="ueber" /><ref name="produktionen" />
! Year !! Title !! Author !! Notes
|-
| 1966 || ''Der Froschkönig'' || || After the fairy tale ''[[wikipedia:The Frog Prince|The Frog Prince]]''
|-
| 1973 || ''Das Haus in Montevideo'' || [[wikipedia:Curt Goetz|Curt Goetz]] ||
|-
| 1977 || ''Moral'' || Ludwig Thoma ||
|-
| 1978 || ''Pension Schöller'' || [[wikipedia:Carl Laufs|Carl Laufs]] and Wilhelm Jacoby || ''[[wikipedia:Pension Schöller (play)|Pension Schöller]]''
|-
| 1978 || ''Reineke Fuchs'' || Arthur Fauquez ||
|-
| 1980 || ''Der keusche Lebemann'' || [[wikipedia:Franz Arnold|Franz Arnold]] and Ernst Bach ||
|-
| 1983 || ''Der Baumnarr'' || Arthur Maximilian Miller ||
|-
| 1983 || ''Der Tag, an dem der Papst gekidnappt wurde'' || João Bethencourt ||
|-
| 1984 || ''Die Lokalbahn'' || Ludwig Thoma ||
|-
| 1985 || ''Der Regenmacher'' || [[wikipedia:N. Richard Nash|N. Richard Nash]] || ''[[wikipedia:The Rainmaker (play)|The Rainmaker]]''
|-
| 1986 || ''Der Brandner Kaspar und das ewig Leben'' || after [[wikipedia:Wolfgang Franz von Kobell|Franz von Kobell]], version by Kurt Wilhelm ||
|-
| 1986 || ''Der Engel mit dem Blumentopf'' || [[wikipedia:Miguel Mihura|Miguel Mihura]] ||
|-
| 1988 || ''Love Jogging'' || [[wikipedia:Derek Benfield|Derek Benfield]] ||
|-
| 1989 || ''Das Fenster zum Flur'' || [[wikipedia:Curth Flatow|Curth Flatow]] and Horst Pillau ||
|-
| 1989 || ''Sei still, Bua'' || Fitzgerald Kusz and Hermann Wächter ||
|-
| 1990 || ''Die Heirat'' || [[wikipedia:Nikolai Gogol|Nikolai Gogol]] || ''[[wikipedia:Marriage (play)|Marriage]]''
|-
| 1991 || ''Der nackte Wahnsinn'' || [[wikipedia:Michael Frayn|Michael Frayn]] || ''[[wikipedia:Noises Off|Noises Off]]''
|-
| 1993 || ''Schlafzimmergäste'' || [[wikipedia:Alan Ayckbourn|Alan Ayckbourn]] ||
|-
| 1994 || ''Die Physiker'' || [[wikipedia:Friedrich Dürrenmatt|Friedrich Dürrenmatt]] || ''[[wikipedia:The Physicists|The Physicists]]''
|-
| 1995 || ''Peter Pan'' || || With 17 children
|-
| 1996 || ''Es war die Lerche'' || [[wikipedia:Ephraim Kishon|Ephraim Kishon]] || Revived in 2000 in the castle courtyard in [[wikipedia:Friedberg, Bavaria|Friedberg]] and in 2005
|-
| 1998 || ''Otello darf nicht platzen'' || || Revived in 1999
|-
| 2001 || ''Dr letschte Wille'' || Fitzgerald Kusz, Swabian version by Hermann Wächter || First performance in [[wikipedia:Swabian German|Swabian]]
|-
| 2002 || ''Der Floh im Ohr'' || [[wikipedia:Georges Feydeau|Georges Feydeau]] || ''[[wikipedia:A Flea in Her Ear|A Flea in Her Ear]]''
|-
| 2003 || ''Honigmond'' || [[wikipedia:Gabriel Barylli|Gabriel Barylli]] ||
|-
| 2004 || ''Familienbande'' || [[wikipedia:Jean-Pierre Bacri|Jean-Pierre Bacri]] ||
|-
| 2004 || ''Ein ungleiches Paar'' || [[wikipedia:Neil Simon|Neil Simon]] ||
|-
| 2005 || ''Geister, die ich rief'' || [[wikipedia:Noël Coward|Noël Coward]] || ''[[wikipedia:Blithe Spirit (play)|Blithe Spirit]]''
|-
| 2005 || ''Es war die Lerche'' || Ephraim Kishon || Revival
|-
| 2005 || ''Momo'' || after [[wikipedia:Michael Ende|Michael Ende]] || ''[[wikipedia:Momo (novel)|Momo]]''
|-
| 2005 || ''Pippi Langstrumpf'' || || Children's theatre
|-
| 2006 || ''Ladykillers'' || Elke Cröver and Maria Caleita ||
|-
| 2007 || ''Dinner für Spinner'' || [[wikipedia:Francis Veber|Francis Veber]] || ''[[wikipedia:The Dinner Game|The Dinner Game]]''; new staging in 2008
|-
| 2008 || ''Sonny Boys'' || Neil Simon || ''[[wikipedia:The Sunshine Boys|The Sunshine Boys]]''
|-
| 2010 || ''Das Haus in Montevideo'' || Curt Goetz || Revival of the 1973 production
|-
| 2010 || ''Der Trauschein'' || Ephraim Kishon || 125th-anniversary production
|-
| 2011 || ''Man lebt nur einmal'' || [[wikipedia:Moss Hart|Moss Hart]] and [[wikipedia:George S. Kaufman|George S. Kaufman]] || ''[[wikipedia:You Can't Take It with You (play)|You Can't Take It with You]]''
|-
| 2012 || ''Der Diener zweier Herren'' || [[wikipedia:Carlo Goldoni|Carlo Goldoni]] || ''[[wikipedia:The Servant of Two Masters|The Servant of Two Masters]]''
|-
| 2013 || ''Der Raub der Sabinerinnen'' || Franz and Paul von Schönthan ||
|-
| 2014 || ''Theater, Theater!'' || Sabine Misiorny and Tom Müller ||
|-
| 2015 || ''Der süßeste Wahnsinn'' || Michael McKeever ||
|-
| 2016 || ''Der Vorname'' || Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière || ''[[wikipedia:What's in a Name? (2012 film)|Le Prénom]]''
|-
| 2017 || ''Boeing-Boeing'' || Marc Camoletti || ''[[wikipedia:Boeing-Boeing (play)|Boeing-Boeing]]''
|-
| 2018 || ''Gretchen 89ff.'' || Lutz Hübner || Played in the Haus Augustinus
|-
| 2019 || ''Endspurt'' || [[wikipedia:Peter Ustinov|Peter Ustinov]] ||
|-
| 2022 || ''Eine Stunde Ruhe'' || [[wikipedia:Florian Zeller|Florian Zeller]] || <ref name="ruhe" />
|-
| 2023 || ''Himmelwärts'' || [[wikipedia:Ödön von Horváth|Ödön von Horváth]] || <ref name="himmel" />
|-
| 2025 || ''Helden'' || [[wikipedia:George Bernard Shaw|George Bernard Shaw]] || ''[[wikipedia:Arms and the Man|Arms and the Man]]''; 140th-anniversary season<ref name="helden" /><ref name="aj" />
|-
| 2026 || ''Oscar'' || Claude Magnier, German version by [[wikipedia:Hans Weigel|Hans Weigel]] || Premiere 17 October 2026<ref name="oscar" />
|}

== Venue ==
The group performs in the hall of the Kolpinghaus, Frauentorstraße 29, in the centre of Augsburg, where it has been based since 1960.<ref name="kontakt" /><ref name="aj" />

== Organisation ==
According to its website, more than 60 people of all ages take part on, under and behind the stage; all sets, costumes, make-up and lighting are made by the members.<ref name="home" /><ref name="aj" />

Since 1972 it has had a partnership with the Stadttheater Kufstein (until 2008 Tiroler Volkstheater) in [[wikipedia:Kufstein|Kufstein]], Austria; the two groups visit each other with guest performances, for example ''Shirley Valentine'' by the Kufstein ensemble in Augsburg in 2017 and ''Der Tod und das Mädchen'' in 2023, and celebrated the 50th anniversary of the partnership in 2022.<ref name="ueber" /><ref name="tod" />

== References ==
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<ref name="home">[https://www.tif-augsburg.de/ Theater in Augsburg – Theater in der Frauentorstraße], Theater in der Frauentorstraße e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261022124912/https://www.tif-augsburg.de/ Archived] on 22 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="ueber">[https://www.tif-augsburg.de/ueber-unsere-theatergruppe Theatergruppe Augsburg – Über uns / Vereinschronik], Theater in der Frauentorstraße e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261022124939/https://www.tif-augsburg.de/ueber-unsere-theatergruppe Archived] on 22 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="produktionen">[https://www.tif-augsburg.de/produktionen Produktionen], Theater in der Frauentorstraße e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261022125008/https://www.tif-augsburg.de/produktionen Archived] on 22 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="gallery">[https://web.archive.org/web/20190825041623/https://www.tif-augsburg.de/Gallery.php Produktionen – Bilder der Aufführungen], Theater in der Frauentorstraße e. V., archived 25 August 2019, retrieved 22 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="ruhe">[https://www.tif-augsburg.de/produktionen/eine-stunde-ruhe Eine Stunde Ruhe | 2022], Theater in der Frauentorstraße e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261022125129/https://www.tif-augsburg.de/produktionen/eine-stunde-ruhe Archived] on 22 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="himmel">[https://www.tif-augsburg.de/produktionen/himmelwaerts Himmelwärts | 2023], Theater in der Frauentorstraße e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261022125318/https://www.tif-augsburg.de/produktionen/himmelwaerts Archived] on 22 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="helden">[https://www.tif-augsburg.de/produktionen/helden Helden | 2025], Theater in der Frauentorstraße e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261022125342/https://www.tif-augsburg.de/produktionen/helden Archived] on 22 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="oscar">[https://www.tif-augsburg.de/produktionen/oscar-2026 Oscar | Produktion 2026], Theater in der Frauentorstraße e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261022125409/https://www.tif-augsburg.de/produktionen/oscar-2026 Archived] on 22 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="tod">[https://www.tif-augsburg.de/produktionen/der-tod-und-das-maedchen Der Tod und das Mädchen | Gastspiel | 2023], Theater in der Frauentorstraße e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261022125537/https://www.tif-augsburg.de/produktionen/der-tod-und-das-maedchen Archived] on 22 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="kontakt">[https://www.tif-augsburg.de/kontakt Kontakt], Theater in der Frauentorstraße e. V., retrieved 22 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261022125608/https://www.tif-augsburg.de/kontakt Archived] on 22 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="aj">[https://www.augsburg-journal.de/kultur/theater-in-der-frauentorstrasse-dramatische-140/ Theater in der Frauentorstraße: Dramatische 140], Augsburg Journal, retrieved 22 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20260423022911/https://www.augsburg-journal.de/kultur/theater-in-der-frauentorstrasse-dramatische-140/ Archived] on 23 April 2026.</ref>
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