The Volkstheater (translated as "People's Theatre") in
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was founded in 1889 by request of the citizens of Vienna, amongst them the
dramatist
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Ludwig Anzengruber
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and the furniture manufacturer
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, in order to offer a popular counter weight to the ''
Hofburgtheater
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''. It was erected according to designs by
Ferdinand Fellner
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Fellner joined his ailing father's architecture firm at the age of nineteen. After his father's death he founded the architecture studio Fellner & Helmer ...
and
Hermann Helmer
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, who attempted to reconcile their plans with
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. It is located in
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, the seventh
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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
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Raimund was born in Vienna as a son of Bohemian woodturn ...
and
Johann Nestroy
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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
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Dejan Dukovski
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He is best known for his 1994 play ''Powder Keg''.
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1969 births
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,
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).
The Volkstheater station of lines U2 and U3 of the Vienna U-Bahn is located here.
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