The Volkstheater in
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(roughly translated as "People's Theatre") was founded in 1889 by request of the citizens of
Vienna
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, amongst them the
dramatist Ludwig Anzengruber
Ludwig Anzengruber (29 November 1839 – 10 December 1889) was an Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet. He was born and died in Vienna, Austria.
Origins
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and the furniture manufacturer
Thonet Thonet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Anne Bonnet, née Thonet (1908–1960), Belgian painter
* Michael Thonet (1796–1871), German–Austrian cabinet maker
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, in order to offer a popular counter weight to the ''
Hofburgtheater''. It was erected according to designs by
Ferdinand Fellner
Ferdinand Fellner (19 April 1847 – 22 March 1916) was an Austrian architect.
Biography
Fellner joined his ailing father's architecture firm at the age of nineteen. After his death he founded the architecture studio Fellner & Helmer together w ...
and
Hermann Helmer, who attempted to reconcile their plans with
historicism
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. It is located in
Neubau
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, the seventh
district
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of Vienna.
The founders of this stage had a theatrical stage in mind, in order to expose wider circles of the population of Vienna to classical and modern literature whilst staging these next to more traditional plays. The theatre follows this tradition even today. New productions of the classics are always in the pipeline along with regular reinterpretations of works by
Ferdinand Raimund and
Johann Nestroy and many new plays and reruns. Special attention is given to Austrian playwrights of old and new.
In 2005 Michael Schottenberg became art director of the Volkstheater.
In 2005 the Volkstheater started an alternative theater stage called "Volkstheater Hundsturm" in
Margareten, the fifth district of Vienna. It is a place for experimental theater (e.g.
Wojtek Klemm
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,
Dejan Dukovski,
monochrom).
The
Volkstheater station of lines U2 and U3 of the Vienna U-Bahn is located here.
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Volkstheater Wien(in
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Buildings and structures in Neubau
Theatres in Vienna
Fellner & Helmer buildings
Theatres completed in 1889
1889 establishments in Austria