by Silke Technau | Apr 14, 2021 | A look in the depot
Of course I, Urmel the dragon, was once a baby! I have been around a good long while though! Indeed, my egg lay in an iceberg with me tucked inside for a long, long time. My egg and I even travelled around with the iceberg to Titiwu and Lübeck. From time to time a...
by Silke Technau | Mar 2, 2021 | A look at the Kolk construction site
Admittedly, the Slavic settlement with fortifications in the north already existed. Some Slavs still settled there, but the castle was dilapidated and abandoned. Count Adolf II of Schauenburg had seen this coming: A stone hill and a navigable river leading to the...
by Silke Technau | Feb 19, 2021 | Raise the curtain
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...
by Silke Technau | Feb 14, 2021 | Raise the curtain
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...
by Silke Technau | Feb 10, 2021 | Raise the curtain
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...
