State Association of Amateur Theater Baden-Württemberg
The State Association of Amateur Theaters Baden-Württemberg eV (LABW) is an association based in Stuttgart and the umbrella organization for amateur theaters in Baden-Württemberg and a member of the Association of German Amateur Theaters . Its task is to promote and disseminate amateur theater.
He organizes training and further education as well as numerous other services for amateur theaters, for example:
- Advice and support
- Exchange of experiences between the stages
- Mediation of guest performances
- Youth work
- public relation
- Association magazine Schau.Spiel
- Association communications
- Help with procurement
- grants
- Organization of the Lamathea (State Amateur Theater Prize Baden-Württemberg)
The association is divided into the following subgroups:
- Senior and generation theater
- Puppet theater
- Open air theater
- Dialect theater
- Indoor stages
- School theater
- Theater and game advice
From the amateur theater sector, around 640 theaters and theater groups with around 40,000 members are combined in the regional association.
The association cooperates with the Theater and Spielberatung Baden-Württemberg eV
After Rolf Wenhardt's long presidency, the executive committee and the office were reorganized. Since then, Naemi Zoe Keuler has been President and Marcus Joos as Vice President.