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...

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...