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'''Theatergruppe Ebelsbach e. V.''' is an amateur theatre association in [[wikipedia:Ebelsbach|Ebelsbach]], [[wikipedia:Haßberge (district)|district of Haßberge]], Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany.<ref name="home" /> Formed in 1984, it stages comedies, farces and occasionally literary plays and crime plays in the Bürgersaal of Ebelsbach, and donates much of its income to charitable and cultural causes.<ref name="home" />

== History ==
The group formed in 1984 on the initiative of Bruno Schöpplein and Dieter Kraft and began with the rural farce ''Hurra Zwillinge'' in the parish hall. With its third play, ''Die hölzerne Jungfrau'' (1986), it moved to the school's gymnastics room, and in 1991, with ''Eine verrückte Familie'', to the new Bürgersaal of the Ebelsbach centre. From 1990 it also performed in Ebelsbach's partner municipality Steinbach in the Erzgebirge. In 1992 Bernd Schmitt, a director from the Musiktheater Stuttgart, staged [[wikipedia:Wolfgang Borchert|Wolfgang Borchert]]'s ''Draußen vor der Tür'' with the group. In 1997 the group became a registered association. It staged [[wikipedia:Bertolt Brecht|Brecht]]'s ''Der gute Mensch von Sezuan'' in 2001 and marked its 20th anniversary in October 2004 by reviving ''Der Watschenkrieg am Ochsenhof'', first performed 17 years earlier. Since a first guest performance with ''Das Eigentor'', it has performed every year at the invitation of a carnival club in [[wikipedia:Grafenrheinfeld|Grafenrheinfeld]]. For its 25th anniversary it performed ''Ein Dachschaden mit Zwischenfällen'', the first of several farces by its member Rudi Klos; in 2011 it staged its first crime play, Agatha Christie's ''Die Mausefalle''. By its 30th anniversary in 2014 the group had staged 36 plays, and it celebrated its 40th anniversary on 26 October 2024 with ''Sechs Richtige im Seniorenheim''.<ref name="home" />

== Repertoire ==
The repertoire consists mainly of comedies and rural farces, complemented by literary plays and crime plays; a children's group (''Theaterkids'') also performs, for example a Christmas play in December 2026.<ref name="home" /><ref name="stuecke" />

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Productions<ref name="stuecke" />
! Year !! Title !! Author !! Notes
|-
| 1984 || ''Hurra Zwillinge'' || Hans Lellis || First production, in the parish hall
|-
|  || ''Rendezvous im Bauernschrank'' || Hans Lellis ||
|-
| 1986 || ''Die hölzerne Jungfrau'' || Ridi Walfried || First production in the school gymnastics room
|-
| 1987 || ''Der Watschenkrieg am Ochsenhof'' || Erich Siebeneicher ||
|-
|  || ''Einer spinnt immer'' || Martin Fischer ||
|-
|  || ''Bleib cool Mama'' || Ulla Kling ||
|-
|  || ''Der schwarze Koffer'' || Werner Schuster ||
|-
| 1991 || ''Eine verrückte Familie'' || Walter G. Pfaus || First production in the Bürgersaal
|-
| 1992 || ''Draußen vor der Tür'' || Wolfgang Borchert || ''[[wikipedia:The Man Outside|The Man Outside]]''; directed by Bernd Schmitt
|-
|  || ''Wenn das bloß gut geht'' || Ulla Kling ||
|-
|  || ''Der verhinderte Casanova'' || Walter G. Pfaus ||
|-
|  || ''Hier sind Sie richtig'' || Marc Camoletti ||
|-
|  || ''Zuständ sin des'' || Fred Bosch ||
|-
|  || ''Bloß koan Schnaps'' || Heidi Hillreiner ||
|-
|  || ''Ein verrücktes Haus'' || Dirk Salzbrunn ||
|-
|  || ''Der letzte Wille'' || Fitzgerald Kusz ||
|-
|  || ''Reizende Schwestern'' || Walter G. Pfaus ||
|-
| 2001 || ''Der gute Mensch von Sezuan'' || Bertolt Brecht || ''[[wikipedia:The Good Person of Szechwan|The Good Person of Szechwan]]''
|-
|  || ''Der Held des Tages'' || Walter G. Pfaus ||
|-
|  || ''Jubiläums-Zinnober'' || Arno Boas ||
|-
|  || ''Daham is Daham'' || Fitzgerald Kusz ||
|-
|  || ''Die Schandfrau von Ebelsbach'' || Dirk Bayer || Short historical play for the 1,200th anniversary of Ebelsbach
|-
| 2004 || ''Der Watschenkrieg am Ochsenhof'' || Erich Siebeneicher || 20th anniversary; revival of the 1987 production
|-
|  || ''Die fünf Karnickel'' || Julius Pohl ||
|-
|  || ''Das Eigentor'' || Dirk Salzbrunn || First guest performance in Grafenrheinfeld
|-
|  || ''Dinner for five'' || Thorsten Böhner || One-act play for a benefit gala
|-
|  || ''Der Gockelkrieg'' || Ulla Kling ||
|-
|  || ''Dem Himmel sei Dank oder Im Pfarrhaus ist die Hölle los'' || Bernd Gombold ||
|-
| 2009 || ''Ein Dachschaden mit Zwischenfällen'' || Rudi Klos || 25th anniversary; first play by a member of the group
|-
|  || ''Kurzschlüsse'' || Frank Ziegler ||
|-
| 2011 || ''Die Mausefalle'' || Agatha Christie || ''[[wikipedia:The Mousetrap|The Mousetrap]]''; first crime play, April
|-
| 2011 || ''Wahrsagen leicht gemacht'' || Rudi Klos || Autumn
|-
|  || ''Die Silberhochzeit'' || Regina Rösch ||
|-
| 2011 || ''Der Rüpel-Ritter Rüdiger'' || Jürgen Baumgarten || Ballad play for the 650th anniversary of Gleisenau, September
|-
|  || ''Betteln verboten! Hausieren erlaubt'' || Rudi Klos ||
|-
| 2014 || ''Mord im Pfarrhaus'' || after [[wikipedia:Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie]] || ''[[wikipedia:The Murder at the Vicarage|The Murder at the Vicarage]]''; 30th anniversary, April
|-
|  || ''Bleib cool Mama'' || Ulla Kling || Revival
|-
|  || ''Vorgezogene Weihnachten'' || Rudi Klos ||
|-
|  || ''Der schwarze Koffer'' || Werner Schuster || Revival
|-
|  || ''Wir sind wieder da'' || Rudi Klos ||
|-
|  || ''Mit Küchenbenutzung'' || Hans Kirchhoff ||
|-
|  || ''Waschen, schneiden, (pf)legen'' || Rudi Klos ||
|-
|  || ''Amnesie plus Nebenwirkung'' || Rudi Klos ||
|-
|  || ''Aner spinnt immer'' || Martin Fischer ||
|-
|  || ''Dreimal schwarzer Peter'' || Heidi Mager ||
|-
| 2024 || ''Sechs Richtige im Seniorenheim'' || Rudi Klos || 40th anniversary, premiere 26 October 2024
|-
| 2026 || ''Hier sind Sie richtig'' || Marc Camoletti || Revival
|}

== Venue ==
Since 1991 the group has played in the Bürgersaal of the Ebelsbach centre; earlier venues were the parish hall and the school's gymnastics room.<ref name="home" /><ref name="events" />

== References ==
<references>
<ref name="home">[https://www.theatergruppe-ebelsbach.de/ Wir über uns – Chronik des Vereins], Theatergruppe Ebelsbach e.V., retrieved 25 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261025233430/https://www.theatergruppe-ebelsbach.de/ Archived] on 25 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="stuecke">[https://www.theatergruppe-ebelsbach.de/de/Bisherige%20Stuecke/ Bisherige Stücke], Theatergruppe Ebelsbach e.V., retrieved 25 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261025233508/https://www.theatergruppe-ebelsbach.de/de/Bisherige%20Stuecke/ Archived] on 25 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="events">[https://www.theatergruppe-ebelsbach.de/de/Events/ Events], Theatergruppe Ebelsbach e.V., retrieved 25 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261025233545/https://www.theatergruppe-ebelsbach.de/de/Events/ Archived] on 25 October 2026.</ref>
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