 It proved impossible to build so many new theatres quickly, audience enthusiasm waned for the action-poor Thingspiele, and playwrights also failed to write enough of them.Beginning in 1935, many existing and all new "Thing" sites were renamed to "Feierstätten" (festival sites) or "Freilichtbühnen" (open-air theatres) and they were used for performances of conventional plays and folk festivals such as those celebrating the summer solstice., who had promoted the Thingspiel movement as head of the theatre division of the Reichskulturkammer, died in 1935, and by 1937, when Joseph Goebbels officially withdrew support, it had already petered out.