by Silke Technau | Jun 29, 2020 | A look in the depot
In 2013 the Museum of Theatre Puppets Lübeck and the Puppet Theatrem Lübeck jointly conceived the special exhibition modelling clay (putty), wire and camera – cartoons and puppet animation films. The film “Kater” was also part of the exhibition. Tine...
by Silke Technau | Jun 1, 2020 | Raise the curtain
Song no. 6 “In the cowshed” (yodellers, milkers, men’s quartet, stable boys’, cobblers, maids’ ballet) Rustic and coarse. This is the title of the folk interlude in scene three; Act one of the famous silver operetta Im Weißen Rössl....
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...
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