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'''Theater-Gruppe Simmern/Ww. e.V.''' (also '''Theatergruppe Simmern/Ww. e.V.''') is an amateur theatre group based in [[wikipedia:Simmern, Westerwaldkreis|Simmern]] in the [[wikipedia:Westerwald|Westerwald]], [[wikipedia:Rhineland-Palatinate|Rhineland-Palatinate]], Germany.<ref name="home" /><ref name="lvrlp" /> Founded in 1966, it stages mainly comic full-length folk plays and [[wikipedia:Farce|farces]] (''Schwänke''), with some roles rendered in the local [[wikipedia:Moselle Franconian language|Moselle Franconian]] dialect.<ref name="home" />

== History ==
Amateur theatre in Simmern predates the group. The local gymnastics club, founded in January 1910 and active until about 1959, staged one play a year, usually at Christmas or in Lent. After the Second World War plays were performed by the Catholic youth, among them in 1947 two plays the chronicle attributes to [[wikipedia:Pedro Calderón de la Barca|Pedro Calderón de la Barca]]; in the 1950s the village schoolteacher directed productions, some of them performed by the church choir. After the gymnastics club ceased its activities in 1959, a lay players' group continued from 1960 to 1966 with an annual performance on Boxing Day, including the drama ''Christenverfolgung in Mexiko oder das Gesetz des Antichrist'' in 1963.<ref name="chronik" />

On 5 April 1966 eight theatre enthusiasts met at the inn "Zur Bauernschänke" and formally founded the ''Laienspiel-Theater-Gruppe Simmern/Westerwald''. A trained actor from Kadenbach subsequently took over direction and also acted. Rehearsals and performances took place in a hall belonging to a local inn, heated by a stove for which the members brought firewood. After the death of a player in an accident during rehearsals in 1981, performances stopped, mainly for lack of male actors.<ref name="chronik" />

In autumn 1996 the last active member initiated a one-act play at the harvest-festival ball of the Simmern music society, and the group was reactivated afterwards. At a general meeting on 19 April 1997 a statute was adopted and entry in the register of associations at the Montabaur district court was applied for; since then the association has been named ''Theater-Gruppe Simmern/Ww. e.V.''. The first full-length production after the reactivation followed in autumn 1998. From 1998 to 2001 the plays were rehearsed without a director; from 2002 to 2007 an actress directed, from 2008 to 2012 a freelance director born in Simmern coached the productions, and in 2014 another actress took over direction.<ref name="chronik" /> The group celebrated its 50th anniversary in April 2016 with ''Blaues Blut und Erbsensuppe''.<ref name="chronik" /> Performances paused for four years after 2019 and resumed in 2023 with a new staging of ''Es ist was los auf dem Hungerhof'', first performed in 2009.<ref name="aktuelles" />

== Repertoire ==
Since the reactivation the group has staged mostly full-length [[wikipedia:Comedy|comedies]], from 1998 to 2001 each at the end of October or beginning of November.<ref name="chronik" /> By 2025 it had performed 23 full-length folk plays and farces since the reactivation.<ref name="chronik" /> In 2006 it additionally staged a Christmas and New Year's Eve production, ''Jeder braucht seinen Schutzengel'', for which the Bavarian-dialect original ''Der bayerische Protectulus'' was translated into standard German and then into the local Westerwald dialect by the players; it was the only production cast entirely with dialect speakers.<ref name="chronik" /> Between 2000 and 2004 a youth group staged four plays.<ref name="chronik" /> Productions under the first director after 1966 also included ''Auf dass wir nicht schuldig werden'' (Peter Hardt), ''Der Meineidbauer'' ([[wikipedia:Ludwig Anzengruber|Ludwig Anzengruber]]), ''Sturm im Maßkrug'' (Hans Strasser-Lang), ''[[wikipedia:Boeing-Boeing (play)|Boeing, Boeing]]'' (Marc Camoletti) and ''Hände hoch, Miss Kitty'' (Alfred Schmid); the lay group of 1960–1966 had played ''Die Geier Wally'' after [[wikipedia:Wilhelmine von Hillern|Wilhelmine von Hillern]].<ref name="chronik" />

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Productions (incomplete)<ref name="archiv" />
! Year !! Title !! Author !! Notes
|-
| 1966 || ''Der Meisterboxer'' || Otto Schwartz and Carl Mathern || Founding year<ref name="chronik" />
|-
| 1968 || ''Der Dorflump'' || Herman Haas || <ref name="chronik" />
|-
| 1969 || ''Das Geheimnis vom Steinkreuz'' || || <ref name="chronik" />
|-
| 1972 || ''Der Herr in Grau'' || || <ref name="chronik" />
|-
| 1976 || ''Hilfe, ich liebe einen Gammler'' || Hans Lellis || <ref name="chronik" />
|-
| 1996 || ''Die Pferdekur'' || || One-act play at the harvest-festival ball<ref name="chronik" />
|-
| 1997 || ''Toni und seine drei Frauen'' || || One-act play at the harvest-festival ball<ref name="chronik" />
|-
| 1998 || ''Maximilian der Starke'' || Wilfried Reinehr ||
|-
| 1999 || ''Der Mehlwurm'' || Wilfried Reinehr ||
|-
| 2000 || ''Theater auf der Küchenbank'' || Renate Reuß ||
|-
| 2000 || ''Gespenster ab ins Gurkenglas'' || Karin Hüttenhofer || Youth production<ref name="chronik" />
|-
| 2001 || ''Dümmer geht's nimmer'' || Wilfried Reinehr ||
|-
| 2001 || ''Tote schmieren keine Brote'' || Dirk Salzbrunn || Youth production<ref name="chronik" />
|-
| 2002 || ''Bommels verrückte Heimkehr'' || Dieter Adam ||
|-
| 2002 || ''Verrückt diese Irdlinge'' || Franzi Klingelhöfer || Youth production<ref name="chronik" />
|-
| 2003 || ''Die Gedächtnislücke'' || Bernd Gombold ||
|-
| 2004 || ''Katzenjammer'' || Bernd Gombold ||
|-
| 2004 || ''Chaos GmbH und Co. – wir stellen um auf Computer'' || Frank M. Ziegler || Youth production<ref name="chronik" />
|-
| 2005 || ''Dem Himmel sei Dank'' || Bernd Gombold ||
|-
| 2006 || ''Nichts als Kuddelmuddel'' || Jürgen Wörner || Autumn production
|-
| 2006 || ''Jeder braucht seinen Schutzengel'' || Peter Landstorfer || Original title ''Der bayerische Protectulus''; Christmas and New Year's Eve production
|-
| 2007 || ''Nur Zoff mit dem Stoff'' || Bernd Gombold ||
|-
| 2008 || ''Frauenpower'' || Bernd Gombold ||
|-
| 2009 || ''Es ist was los auf dem Hungerhof'' || Annette and Elke Döhmen ||
|-
| 2010 || ''Polnische Wirtschaft'' || Bernd Gombold ||
|-
| 2011 || ''Einer spinnt immer'' || Wilfried Reinehr ||
|-
| 2012 || ''Rosenkrieg nach Paragrafen'' || Erika Kapeller || [[wikipedia:Premiere|World premiere]]
|-
| 2014 || ''Handylust und Handyfrust'' || Wolfgang Bräutigam ||
|-
| 2016 || ''Blaues Blut und Erbsensuppe'' || Dieter Adam || 50th anniversary<ref name="chronik" />
|-
| 2017 || ''Die Gedächtnislücke'' || Bernd Gombold || Revival of the 2003 production
|-
| 2018 || ''Zwei wie Hund und Katz'' || Bernd Gombold ||
|-
| 2019 || ''Alles bestens geregelt!'' || Bernd Gombold ||
|-
| 2023 || ''Es ist was los auf dem Hungerhof'' || Annette and Elke Döhmen || Revival of the 2009 production
|-
| 2024 || ''Ach, du fröhliche!'' || Bernd Gombold ||
|-
| 2026 || ''Außer Kontrolle'' || || Announced<ref name="lvrlp" />
|}

== Venue ==
The group performs in the Haus Siebenborn at the end of Siebenbornstraße in Simmern.<ref name="anfahrt" /> Donations from the group in 2018 went towards expanding the sound and lighting equipment of the village community hall, which is also used by other Simmern clubs.<ref name="aktuelles" />

== Organisation ==
Besides its annual productions, the group ran a youth group between 2000 and 2004, from which several players later joined the adult ensemble.<ref name="chronik" /> In 2018 it donated 500 euros to the volunteer first responders of the [[wikipedia:German Red Cross|German Red Cross]] local branch in Augst.<ref name="aktuelles" />

== References ==
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<ref name="home">[https://www.theatergruppe-simmern-ww.de/ Startseite], Theater-Gruppe Simmern/Ww. e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261027171751/https://www.theatergruppe-simmern-ww.de/ Archived] on 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="chronik">[https://www.theatergruppe-simmern-ww.de/chronik/ Chronik], Theater-Gruppe Simmern/Ww. e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261027171813/https://www.theatergruppe-simmern-ww.de/chronik/ Archived] on 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="archiv">[https://www.theatergruppe-simmern-ww.de/archiv/ Archiv], Theater-Gruppe Simmern/Ww. e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261027171841/https://www.theatergruppe-simmern-ww.de/archiv/ Archived] on 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="aktuelles">[https://www.theatergruppe-simmern-ww.de/aktuelles/ Aktuelles], Theater-Gruppe Simmern/Ww. e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261027171909/https://www.theatergruppe-simmern-ww.de/aktuelles/ Archived] on 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="anfahrt">[https://www.theatergruppe-simmern-ww.de/anfahrt/ Anfahrt], Theater-Gruppe Simmern/Ww. e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20261027172027/https://www.theatergruppe-simmern-ww.de/anfahrt/ Archived] on 27 October 2026.</ref>
<ref name="lvrlp">[https://theaterrlp.de/mitgliedsbuehnen/ Mitgliedsbühnen], Landesverband Amateurtheater Rheinland-Pfalz e.V., retrieved 27 October 2026. [https://web.archive.org/web/20260611224239/https://theaterrlp.de/mitgliedsbuehnen/ Archived] on 11 June 2026.</ref>
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