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...
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....