Volksbühne
A Volksbühne in Germany is a club that its members against a membership fee theaters allows at discounted prices. In the past, people wanted to give larger groups of people access to good theater plays.
The origin of the Volksbühne movement lies in Berlin at the end of the 19th century. In 1890 the Freie Volksbühne was founded there with the aim of enabling mostly workers to go to the theater and thus to break the educational monopoly held by the bourgeoisie until then. A forerunner of this movement was the Free Stage , which was founded by theater critics and writers in Berlin in 1889.
At the time of National Socialism , the existing people's theaters and many workers' associations were brought into line. In the post-war period , the Volksbühnen were re - established in many places. The Association of German Volksbühnenvereine existed from 1920 to 1933. After the Second World War it was re-established for the Federal Republic of Germany in 1948. In 1919 the Bühnenvolksbund was established on a Christian basis. In 1939 it was dissolved and re-established in Bonn in 1948 as the Bund der Theatergemeinden . The youth groups of the Volksbühnen, including the youth culture rings , endeavor to introduce young people to the theater .
In addition to the Volksbühne, there are also theater communities in several cities that are committed to the basic idea of the Volksbühne movement and offer their members tickets at socially acceptable prices. In Austria, theaters specializing in folk plays are called Volksbühnen and were particularly popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Ensembles and companies
Volksbühne call or called themselves:
- the registered association Freie Volksbühne Berlin and the Volksbühne Berlin established by it ,
- the Vienna Volksbühne (since 1912), today's Renaissance theater ,
- the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene in New York (existing since 1915),
- the visitor organization Hamburger Volksbühne e. V. (founded 1919) and
- the Stuttgarter Volksbühne e. V. (founded 1924), forerunner of the Stuttgart cultural community .
- the NN Theater Neue Volksbühne Köln e. V. (founded 1987)
- Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz (founded in 2015), Cologne theater and event house
Individual evidence
- ^ Ensemble - NN Theater Neue Volksbühne Cologne. Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
- ^ Martina Windrath: Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz: New program in the Millowitsch Theater . In: Kölnische Rundschau . ( rundschau-online.de [accessed on January 25, 2018]).