Theatergemeinschaft Prutting

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Theatergemeinschaft Prutting e. V. is an amateur theatre association in Prutting, district of Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria, Germany. Founded in 1966, it stages Bavarian folk plays and comedies and celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2026.

Theatergemeinschaft Prutting

Theatergemeinschaft Prutting e. V.
Founded	4 November 1966
Legal form	Registered association (eingetragener Verein)
Member of	Ver­band Baye­ri­scher Ama­teur­thea­ter
Location
Headquarters	Prutting
Country	Germany
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Website	theater-prutting.de
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History

On the initiative of Georg Hell, chairman of the local Trachtenverein (costume association), and Bernhard Rinser, head of the Catholic rural youth of Prutting, the people of Prutting interested in amateur theatre were invited through the Oberbayerisches Volksblatt to a meeting at the Kehrerwirt inn on 4 November 1966, with the aim of reviving the village's former theatre tradition after the Kerer family had built a large hall. Twenty people founded the Theatergemeinschaft Prutting. In January 1967 members built a new stage, financed by the municipality, the district youth council and donations, and the first play, D' Wirtszenzl von Aschau, was a success; afterwards the group performed every year at Easter and Christmas, with few exceptions, alternating comedies, poaching dramas and rural farces.

The group joined the Volksspielkunstverband Bayern in November 1977 and received a new statute in 1978, when the offices of chairman and director were separated. In 1983 it contributed a one-act play to an association day in Rosenheim, and it performed Der Herrgottschnitzer von Ammergau at the international theatre days in Rosenheim. The decision of 1988 to become a registered association was implemented in September 1991. In 2000 the Kerersaal, its stage since 1966, closed; from 2001 the group played in the Prutting gymnasium, turning the whole hall into a stage with eight sets along the walls for Der Holledauer Schimmel. In 2004 it secured the right to buy a listed timber-framed barn, which it bought after the founding of the Förderverein Dorfstadl in 2006 together with the carnival guild, the costume and shooting associations and the municipality.

Repertoire

The association has staged more than 80 productions, mostly Bavarian folk plays, farces and comedies, but also poaching dramas such as Jennerwein, historical plays, one-act evenings and an open-air Hänsel und Gretel. Music before the performances and in the intervals was provided by the Pruttinger Stubenmusik until 1986 and by the Pruttinger Stammtischmusikanten from 1987.

Productions

Year	Title	Author	Notes
1967	D’ Wirtszenzl von Aschau	Alois Bach	First production
1967	’s Findelkind
1968	Der Amerikaseppl	B. Rauchenegger and R. Manz
1968	Geächtet	B. Rauchenegger
1969	Kurbetrieb beim Kräuterblasi	Franz Schaurer
1970	Das Kompanie-Ekel		One-act play
1970	Der Regierungsvetter	Hans Stöckl
1971	Der Gmoalump	Georg Stöger-Ostin
1971	Die Heiratswette	Hans Stöckl
1972	Alte Liebe rostet nicht	G. Schiller and H. Dengel
1972	’s Lehnerl vom Königssee	Ferdinand Winter
1973	Der Pfannenflicker-Sepp	Josef Neureither
1974	Der lachende Erbe	Max Ferner and Wilhelm Köhler
1974	Die Leiter am Kammerfenster	Marin Dornreither
1975	Das eigene Blut	C. Gruß
1975	Das Mädchen vom Lande	Max Ferner and Wilhelm Köhler
1976	Die Giftspritz’n vom Bründlhof	Martin Dornreither
1976	Heirat nicht ausgeschlossen	Peter Jehl
1977	D’ Wirtszenzl von Aschau	Alois Bach	Revival of the 1967 production; Tenth-anniversary production
1978	Der heiratslustige Polykarp	Peter Jehl
1978	Die enttäuschte Monika	Peter Jehl
1979	Das Verlegenheitskind	Franz Streicher
1979	Glück in der Liebe	Ludwig Sippel
1980	Das Geheimnis der Müllerin	Anton Maly and Toni Gerlin
1980	Zwoa harte Nüß	Ulla Kling
1981	Das Prämienkind	Maximilian Vitus
1981	Ein guter Einfall	Franz Schaurer
1982	Rendevous im Bauernkasten	Hans Lellis
1982	Zweimal Hochzeit	Anton Maly
1983	Beim Tannecker brennt’s	Michael Scheuer
1983	Der Gockel-Kriag	Ulla Kling
1984	Das Millionenbett	Maximilian Vitus
1984	Der Wilderer vom Gamsgebirg	Hans Stöckl
1985	Der Schwärzerkramer von Nußdorf	Alois Bach
1985	Die drei Dorfheiligen	Max Neal and Max Ferner
1986	Thomas auf der Himmelsleiter	Maximilian Vitus	20th-anniversary production
1987	Der Geisterbräu	Joseph Maria Lutz
1987	Sumpfgebiete	Christoph Decker
1988	Die drei Eisbären	Maximilian Vitus
1988	Liebe und Blechschaden	Hans Gnant
1989	Der Herrgottschnitzer von Ammergau	Ludwig Ganghofer and Hans Neuert
1990	Auf Regen folgt Segen	Erich Friedl
1991	Der Onkel Pepi	Sepp Faltermaier
1991	Die Kreuzelschreiber	Ludwig Anzengruber
1992	Die Töchter Josefs	Franz Gischel
1992	Lenz, wo bleibst denn	Ulla Kling
1993	Der G’wissenswurm	Ludwig Anzengruber
1993	Er hat Glück mit Monika	Ridi Walfried
1994	Die Haberltöchter von Marschall	Georg Stöger-Ostin
1994	Die Witwen	Ludwig Thoma
1995	Brautschau, Waldfrieden und die kleinen Verwandten	Ludwig Thoma	One-act plays
1995	Der heilige Florian	Max Neal and Philipp Weichand
1996	Die Sippe	Ulla Kling, after the play by Ludwig Thoma
1996	Ein einfaches Leben	Sepp Faltermaier
1997	Bayerisches Spectaculum		Evening of Bavarian cabaret pieces
1997	D’ Sommerfrisch’n in Altaich	Reiner Wagner
1998	Alles für die Katz	H. Hinrichs and E. Hatzelmann
1998	Pestweihnacht	Hugo Huber
1999	Der Wirtsepperl z’Garching
1999	Heiter bis Lustig		One-act plays
2000	s’Elädrische	Peter Landstorfer	Last production in the Kerersaal
2001	Der Holledauer Schimmel	Alois Johannes Lippl	First production in the gymnasium
2002	Die Widerspenstigen	Ludwig Anzengruber, adapted by Olf Fischer and Oskar Weber
2004	Birnbaum und Hollerstaudn	Josef Maria Lutz, music by Kurt Brüggemann
2005	Der Heldenstammtisch	Werner Asam
2006	Der Geisterbräu	Josef Maria Lutz	Revival of the 1987 production
2007	Die Hosenknopfaffäre
2008	Das Spiel auf der Tenne	Inga Hosp and Erich Innerebner
2009	Der Ehestreik
2010	Der Moar	Hugo Huber
2011	Jennerwein	after Ferdinand Winter
2013	Die drei Eisbären	Maximilian Vitus	Revival of the 1988 production
2014	Pestweihnacht	after Der Fährmann von Haunreit by Martin Winklbauer	Historical play; new version of the play staged in 1998
2015	Wenn Weihnachten …		Eight one-act Christmas pieces
2016	Der Habererbräu	Holger Zimmermann
2016	Hänsel und Gretel	after the Brothers Grimm	Open-air family play
2017	Endlich san d’Weiber furt	Marianne Santl
2018	Das Kreuz mit den Schwestern	Steffi Kammermeier
2019	’s Leben dalebn	Reinhard Seibold
2022	Thomas auf der Himmelsleiter	Maximilian Vitus	Revival of the 1986 production
2023	Liebe & Blechschaden	Hans Gnant	Revival of the 1988 production
2024	3 Szenen aus dem Königlich Bayrischen Amtsgericht	Georg Lohmeier	Three scenes, after the TV series Königlich Bayerisches Amtsgericht
2025	Venezianische Affäre	Christa Bitzer, Bavarian version by Siegfried Rupert
2026	Hinterweltsboazn	Heidi Falthauser

Venue

From 1966 to 2000 the group played in the hall of the Kerer inn (Kerersaal), and from 2001 in the Prutting gymnasium. Its website now presents the association as "theatre and culture in the Pruttinger Dorfstadl", the barn bought for that purpose in 2006.

Organisation

Since 1979 the association has organised an annual pre-Christmas visit of Prutting children to the children's theatre in Rosenheim and has rehearsed nativity plays with children for the village Advent singing. Its members have attended courses of the Verband Bayerischer Amateurtheater e. V., it has hosted make-up courses and a district day of the association, and it holds a summer party for its members.