TheVolkstheater (translated as "People's Theatre") inVienna was founded in 1889 by request of the citizens of Vienna, amongst them thedramatistLudwig Anzengruber and the furniture manufacturerThonet, in order to offer a popular counter weight to theHofburgtheater. It was erected according to designs byFerdinand Fellner andHermann Helmer, who attempted to reconcile their plans withhistoricism. It is located inNeubau, the seventhdistrict 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 byFerdinand Raimund andJohann 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" inMargareten, the fifth district of Vienna. It is a place for experimental theater (e.g.Wojtek Klemm,Dejan Dukovski,monochrom).

TheVolkstheater station of lines U2 and U3 of the Vienna U-Bahn is located here.

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