!!!Kellertheater

Cellar Theatres: The first Austrian cellar theatres (experimental 
theatres) were established soon after the Second World War. Young 
actors who could not expect to have an engagement and who were 
dissatisfied with the traditional repertory of the subsidized theatres 
and wanted to realise their ideas, created their own low-budget 
theatres. The forerunners of the cellar theatres in Vienna had already 
sprung up by the 1930s; small theatres in cellars with a maximum of 50 
seats (larger theatres needed a license) were opened by committed 
theatre enthusiasts such as L.  Eppwho was later to become the manager 
of the Vienna Volkstheater. Some cellar theatres were only short-lived 
enterprises but others managed to establish themselves as successful 
theatres. (e.g.  Ateliertheater ,  Theater der Courage,  Experiment am 
Liechtenwerd, die "Tribuene"). For many actors, directors and stage 
designers of the post-war generation the cellar theatres were their 
first artistic platforms. Sometimes even well-known actors performed 
in cellar theatres if they were offered attractive parts. Most of the 
plays written by emigre authors between 1938 and 1945 had their Vienna 
premières in cellar theatres. Today cellar theatres 
mostly show modern plays, which often do not get a chance of 
being performed in one of the larger theatres.


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