Volkstheater, Vienna

The Volkstheater (roughly translated as "People's Theatre") in Vienna was founded in 1889 by request of the citizens of Vienna, amongst them the dramatist Ludwig Anzengruber and the furniture manufacturer Thonet, in order to offer a popular counter weight to the Hofburgtheater.

It was erected according to designs by Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer, who attempted to reconcile their plans with historicism.

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.

It is a place for experimental theater (e.g. Wojtek Klemm, Dejan Dukovski, monochrom).

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