The traditional, popular stage in Vienna's city center has become a modern theater in recent years that offers great opportunities for urban, intelligent entertainment.

Herbert Föttinger has positioned the more than 100-year-old Kammerspiele as a contemporary city comedy since 2006, where mainly contemporary authors are performed who deal with socio-politically relevant topics with humor, irony and lightness.

"At the beginning of my directorship, I was advised to act as if the Kammerspiele did not belong to the Josefstadt at all, as the program was only boulevard. I want the opposite, and now I call it the "Kammerspiele der Josefstadt" according to Max Reinhardt's plans."

The Kammerspiele in Vienna's city center are an unbroken crowd puller. The chic stage design aesthetic matches the pulsating life of the city.
Audience favorites and stars from TV, cabaret and film can be experienced live here in the intimate theater with 394 seats.

Historical

1910 The Vienna Kammerspiele are built according to a design by Franz Freiherr von Krauss and Josef Tölk.

1916 The management and direction are handed over to Herbert Jhering, then Alfred Bernau runs the theater, which is then called the "Vienna Kammerspiele" for the first time.

1919 The Kammerspiele come under the central management of the German People's Theater.

1925 Ludwig Körner runs the Vienna Kammerspiele and a community of interests is formed with the "Reinhardt-Bühnen" in Vienna and Berlin. Under Körner's management, the Kammerspiele become the second stage of the Theater in der Josefstadt, to which they have belonged ever since, with a few years' interruption. The management, ensemble and legal entity have been identical to the Theater in der Josefstadt since then.

1973 Redesign by the architect Prof. Otto Niedermoser.

In 2013, the Josefstadt Kammerspiele underwent a comprehensive general renovation in 5.5 months.

The reason for the great success of the Kammerspiele is and has been popular actors and their passion for playing comedies: Susanne Almassy, ​​Senta Berger, Karlheinz Böhm, Walter Giller, Johannes Heesters, Christiane Hörbiger, Gertraud Jesserer, Ossy Kolmann, Cissy Kraner, Georg Kreisler, Lotte Ledl, Helmuth Lohner, Marianne Mendt, Karl Merkatz, Fritz Muliar, Susi Nicoletti, Christine Ostermayer, Elfriede Ott, Gunter Philipp, Otto Schenk, Ernst Stankovski, Erwin Steinhauer, Nadja Tiller, Peter Weck, Klaus Wildbolz, Bibiana Zeller and many others.

Unforgettable stars of the Kammerspiele: Max Böhm, Alfred Böhm, Fritz Eckhardt, Richard Eybner, Adrienne Gessner, Erik Frey, Heinz Conrads, Vilma Degischer, Axel von Ambesser, Paul Hörbiger, Lotte Lang, Hans Jaray, Maria Andergast, Marte Harell, Hans Holt, Hilde Krahl, Nicolin Kunz, Albert Bassermann, Siegfried Lowitz, Carl Merz, Hans Moser, Dorothea Neff, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel, Jane Tilden, Karl Paryla, Helmuth Qualtinger, Gerhard Riedmann, Annie Rosar, Leopold Rudolf, Marianne Schönauer, Karl Schönböck, Kurt Sowinetz, Georg Thomalla, Hans Thiming, Helene Thiming, Luise Ullrich, Ernst Waldbrunn, Guido Wieland, Hugo Wiener, Grete Zimmer, Kurt Heintel and many more.