At the 6th Puppet Theatre Festival Lübeck, three plays in the evening programme deal with the reinvention of traditional hand puppetry and thus also look at current transformation processes in society. "When I started puppet theatre, I didn't want to be a puppeter. I...

Mephisto is from the play "FAUST" by Klaus Schriefer/HH, while Princess Henriette comes from the family production of the KOBALT Figurentheater Lübeck "DER GESTIEFELTE KATER".   Both are hand puppets and are presented in detail in the "POESIE DER THEATERFIGUREN".  ...

Two things everyone should have in the house are a yellow recycling bag - filled, and a hot glue gun.  So says Peter Beyer proudly displaying that which he knows how to make -  with these basics. Or should we rather say - who? Whether in the hallway, the...

On the occasion of the blog parade "Female Heritage - Women and Remembrance Culture", KOLK 17 Figurentheater & Museum interviewed Silke Technau. We present her work in remembrance culture and at the same time remember Martha Stocker and Heidi Lohmann, the founders...

Alma Pöysti in Tove © Helsinki-filmi Our reasons to present this article are threefold - We would like to introduce an exceptionally strong female personality in recognition of International Women’s Day.  At the same time we look back to our Throwback Thursday...

"Lappen will mit" ("The flannel wants to come along") in summer 2019 © puppen.etc 25 May is International Towel Day, a day of the towel? You can use it to dry off, to bathe - you can also throw it, throw it in, so to say... But what if the inanimate suddenly comes to...

It exists and is without question possible!  It was completely unexpected when we saw the play for the first time. Produced by  Flunker productions: "Vollpfosten"- the twits.  A football team, showing cohesion, mockery,  helplessness and a real friendship - in short:...

The stage of the Bremen Town Musicians - © Stephan Schlafke Due to Corona, we worked on the stage design in separate phases. In the first phase we worked with Thomas Rump on the realisation of his stage design concept. The two large existing play tables were to be...

Founded in Prague in 1929 the Union Internationale de la Marionnette (UNIMA) is the association of all people interested in puppet theatre.  It's membership has steadily grown resulting in an extremely diverse structure worldwide. Today, UNIMA is organised into...

One of the first collaborations of the former Museum of Theatre Puppets and the Puppet Theatre Lübeck in cooperation with the Turkish community in Schleswig-Holstein was the guest performance of the Karagöz players Emin Şenyer and Cengiz Özek. Performing their art of...

The four well-known animals of the puppet designer: Doris Gschwandtner © Gschwandtner/KOBALT Figurentheater HL As one grows older, one doesn't necessarily function the same way as when one was 20 unfortunately. However assets gained along the way include personality...

Small groups, parents with children, a grandmother with her grandson, a father with sons, all seated at a distance. No excited children crowded together on benches, proud to sit alone in the front row without mum or dad. A very different, much quieter atmosphere, but...

A little television history in advance From the 22nd March 1935, the Deutsche Fernseh-Rundfunk (German Televsion and Radio) service broadcast regular live recordings and became the first regular television service in the world (for 250 viewers!).The first portable...

It was above all the intensive television work that fast-tracked the Augsburger Puppenkiste to success: with countless programmes over almost 70 years, it has etched itself deeply into the (West) German cultural memory. Many of it's programmes are available on DVD,...

Harry Kramer (1925-1997), son of a craftsman who worked in the railway repair works, first in Lingen and later in Neumünster, is a trained hairdresser, a trained crew member of main battle tanks and a tap dancer. In his childhood and youth he learned to carefully...

In this Advent production schedule we would have had our show - DORNRÖSCHEN (Sleeping Beauty) on the programme. As a small consolation for our loyal theatre audience, here is a little look behind the scenes of this production, which we brought to the stage at the KOLK...

On 3, 10 and 17 October 2020, the Lübeck Puppet Theatre and the TheaterFigurenMuseum will give insights into their work in the event series POETRY OF THE PUPPET THEATRE. The research project PUPPET&MICROCAMERA will also be on the agenda. But what is actually...

In the research project "puppet & microcamera" we explored the interplay between camera, animation and puppetry in different ways. Camera as a co-player One question was: What happens if the camera becomes an actor? Its recorded image projected onto different...

ELISABETH I. The main character of our new play is Elizabeth the first of England. Made of fabric by the figure painter Mechthild Nienaber, she sits life-size on her throne. For animation she is guided by rods from behind. The head moves impressively while the...

The ship of the stranded - pub song Imagine living around the 15th century and losing in agamble: gambling debts are debts of honour - but thecreditor is a friend and business partner: with luck therewould be a daughter to be married to a rich man in Rigaand...

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. Actually, it is about a small,...

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...

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...