Theater community Munich

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The logo of the theater community in Munich

The Theatergemeinde München ( TheaGe - Karten- und Kulturservice since 2013 ) is a non-profit association for the promotion of culture and the public in the Bavarian capital . With around 25,000 participants, the organization is the largest theater community in Germany. It has existed with interruption since 1919.

Club work

The Theatergemeinde e. V. has a voluntary board of directors that has been chaired by long-time city councilor and cultural politician Richard Quaas since the end of 2018. The association's customers are looked after by a full-time office, which is managed by the journalist Michael Grill.

In addition to regular letters to members, it wants to represent cultural interests in public and, among other things, offer itself as a platform for social discourse in the context of discussion events .

The association is a member of the Bund der Theatergemeinden , which it headed from 2013 to 2015 as the theater community providing business.

history

The association emerged from the bourgeois democracy movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The main idea was that not just an elite minority, but as many citizens as possible should take part in cultural life. This is how visitor organizations came into being , first in Munich in 1918 the Volksbühne , and the following year the theater community. In 1933 all visitor organizations were dissolved by the National Socialists . In 1947 the Munich theater community was re-established.

In 2013, through an internal restructuring, which also resulted in the name and logo change, a new focus was placed on more general cultural activities that should also interest younger new customers.

criticism

The theater community's office is located at a crossroads where Eastern European day laborers offer illegal work on the street. The location was picked up as a workers line in the Munich press several times. Surrounding German and Turkish business people as well as residents, including the theater community, perceive the situation as stressful and damaging to business and have hired a security service that was also subsidized by the city of Munich until the end of 2015. Activists who look after the day laborers, mostly from Bulgaria, have raised allegations against them after a petition that attracted media attention in 2013 and was signed by managing director Michael Grill, among others.

literature

  • Josef Kurz: Theater Community Munich - Chronicle 1947-1997 . GJ Manz AG, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-00-001840-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Business people sound the alarm - A day on the workers line at the train station on January 20, 2016
  2. ↑ Cameras and Police Against Workers' Strike from August 31, 2013

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '12.3 "  N , 11 ° 33' 30.8"  E