The Volkstheater Frankfurt is the city's most important dialect stage and performs in the Cantate-Saal on Großer Hirschgraben in the city centre, near the Goethe House. Founded in 1971 by the actress Liesel Christ and fellow campaigners as the non-profit association "Frankfurter Volkstheater", it set out from the start to be more than a mere dialect farce theatre: Liesel Christ aspired to a literary popular theatre "built on the breadth of world literature". To this day the ensemble presents comedies and classics in the Hessian dialect, cultivating the Frankfurt vernacular and theatrical tradition. After the death of its popular leading lady, the house bears her name in her memory.
Performances are in Frankfurt dialect, a Rhine-Franconian variety of German.
At a glance
- Type
- Theatre
- Location
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Address
- Großer Hirschgraben 21 (Cantate-Saal)
More venues in Frankfurt
- Alte Oper Frankfurt · Concert hall, Frankfurt am Main
- Die Käs · Theatre, Frankfurt
- Die Schmiere · Theatre, Frankfurt
- Fritz Rémond Theatre · Theatre, Frankfurt am Main
- Gallus Theater · Theatre, Frankfurt
- Internationales Theater Frankfurt · Multi-genre theatre, Frankfurt
- Künstlerhaus Mousonturm · Multi-genre theatre, Frankfurt
- Landungsbrücken Frankfurt · Theatre, Frankfurt
- Neues Theater Höchst · Theatre, Frankfurt
- Oper Frankfurt · Opera house, Frankfurt am Main