Volkstheater Urfahr

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The Volkstheater Urfahr was a theater in Linz-Urfahr that existed from 1945 to 1949 with an ambitious program.

As early as August 1945, the Soviet occupying power commissioned the Moravian-Ostrava- born actor Leo Mally to set up a theater in Urfahr, which at that time belonged to the Soviet occupation zone. There was a parish hall with a capacity of about 400 people on Rosenauer Strasse, in which theater could be made until 1949. The stage program included pieces by Thornton Wilder , Arnolt Bronnen and Ödön von Horváth .

Several employees of the theater, which was discontinued for financial reasons despite financial support from the occupying power, later reached prominent positions in cultural life: Alfred Stögmüller , later director of the United Theaters in Linz, was employed here from 1946 to 1948, OW Fischer performed here under Mally's direction and Kurt Klinger worked as an actor.

literature

  • Irene Riegler, Heide Stockinger (Ed.): Generations tell: Stories from Vienna and Linz 1945 to 1955 . Böhlau, Vienna 2005, therein especially the autobiographical report by Alfred Stögmüller, p. 97 ff. ( Preview on Google Books ), and p. 295 ( preview on Google Books )
  • Heide Stockinger: amateur play and stage art. Post-war theater in Linz using the example of the “headlight” 1949–1954. Linz 2006, p. 81 ff. ( Online ; PDF file; 2.13 MB).