Peasant theater

Adolph von Menzel : Peasant Theater in Tyrol

Under Bauerntheater means a dramatic form and beyond a venue or institution in which popular, burlesque are presented materials.

Often these are comedies . The location of the action is usually located in geographical proximity to the location, the characters in the action are taken from the rural population. The actors are mostly lay people or amateurs, but due to the professionalism, full-time actors who have completed training as actors are not uncommon. In some cases, fixed groups have established themselves, there are also some stages that are exclusively dedicated to this genre. There are sometimes transitions to the Volkstheater .

Venues

• Freudenberger Bauernbühne
• Berchtesgadener Bauerntheater
• Regensburg Peasant Theater
• Grödiger peasant theater
• Stubai Farmer's Theater
• Schliersee farmers theater

See also

• Amateur play
• Folk piece
• The comedy nobility

literature

• Nied, Ernst Georg: Alpine rush and hunter's blood. The beginnings of the professional Upper Bavarian peasant theater before the First World War. Munich 1986 (= Munich contributions to theater studies, vol. 17) [also phil. Diss.].