ABSTRACT
The dominant figure of the Volksbühne movement during this period, and indeed until his death in 1963, was Siegfried Nestriepke, the ‘Grand Old Man of the Volksbühne’ as he has been called, without whom the Berlin – and indeed the whole German – Volksbühne movement is unthinkable [ 1 ] and to whom Oscar Fritz Schuh referred as ‘the expert master-builder of the greatest theatre-audience organisation in the world, to whom not only the German, but the European theatre owes so much gratitude’. [ 2 ]
