Münchner Volkstheater, or Munich People’s Theater, is a company based in the Bavarian capital and operated by the cultural office of the city government.

In 1903, the architects Gerstenecker and Tittrich in the Josephspitalstraße in the district Altstadt-Lehel, designed and built a reinforced concrete constructed building.

On 25 December 1921, the theatre hosted a performance of Bach and Franz Arnold's farce Der keusche Lebemann (or "The chaste bon vivant").

At the opening, on 24 November 1983, Ruth Drexel staged the play 'Glaube und Heimat' ("Belief and home", 1910) by Karl Schönherr.

The ensemble consisted of a group of well-known folk actors (eg Gustl Bayrhammer, Beppo Brem, Helmut Fischer,[8] Willy Harlander, Karl Obermayr, Enzi Fuchs, Rita Russek, Maria Singer, Peter Thom and Michael Lerchenberg).

The program included especially the classics of South German-Austrian dialect literature, as well as works by the non-German Volkstheater tradition, but also pieces by Goethe ("Faust"),[9] Schiller, Shakespeare ("Romeo and Juliet" and "Midsummer Night's Dream"),[10] Molière, Brecht and others.

[11][12] With a young ensemble and up-and-coming directors, the Volkstheater was able to gain a new profile within the theater scene and at times achieved almost 90 percent seat occupancy.

Then by 2019, it had 300 sold-out houses,[8] with an ensemble cast (in 2019) of Maximilian Brückner,[8] Markus Brandl, Susanne Brückner, Ursula Maria Burkhart, Tobias van Dieken, Alexander Duda, Peter Mitterrutzner, Stefan Murr [de], Hubert Schmid, Hans Schuler, Kathrin von Steinburg and Young Riederinger musicians.

Following a contest, the architecture office LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei got to plan and finish the project with the general contractor company Georg Reisch.