by Depot | May 25, 2020 | A look in the depot
Today is the day of the towel; a must for all fans of Douglas Adams. Even if there’s reason to doubt that Fritz Fey sen. knew of this special day, this small, slightly anxious looking puppet from the bequest of the Theatre of Marionettes Lübeck is proof of his...
by Silke Technau | May 22, 2020 | Raise the curtain
Diversity of playing techniques in puppet theatre. How often are we being asked; what puppets do you use? Theatre puppets or marionettes? Like the Augsburger Puppenkiste? Is that even possible, puppet theatre for adults? Sometimes our audiences also say: Only...
by Silke Technau | May 21, 2020 | Raise the curtain
When Silke and I moved to Lübeck in 2006, friends gifted us a detective story set in Lübeck. It accompanied us while we discovered the historic city centre. Later, when we approached Derek Meister during a reading in Lübeck, he granted us the rights to a theatre...
by Sonja Riehn | May 19, 2020 | A look in the depot
In the column a look behind the scenes we’d like to grant insights into our scientific work and our daily tasks in the museum’s depot. Today is all about the photography of theatre puppets: photographic object documentation. One photo, many fields of application The...
by Depot | May 18, 2020 | A look in the depot
Still from the film “Prinz Ratte” (prince rat) © Albert Radl Sometimes things happen differently to what you had planned — Prince Rat, the hero of the corresponding stop-motion fairytale film from 2011 by Albert Radl knows a thing or two about that. The...
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