Öcher Schängche

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The venue of the Öcher Schängchen in the Barockfabrik cultural center .

The Aachen city puppet theater "Öcher Schängche" is a traditional stick puppet show in Aachen , which was created in 1921 by the local poet Will Hermanns (who also wrote many pieces for the Schängchen), the sculptor Alfred Pieper, the painter Willi Kohl, the decorator Hein Lentzen and Engineer J. Lausberg was founded. The Öcher Schängche is also the main character of the game. Their repertoire includes besides fairy tale adaptations , Aachen legends and other children's pieces also plays for adults, including detective stories and a carnival annual puppet carnival session . A mixture of the Aachen dialect Oecher Platt and High German is used as the language, but this is understandable for everyone in the context. Particularly with the children's plays, care is taken to ensure that the proportion of the dialect is not too large, so that the children are slowly introduced to the dialect.

Kalverbenden youth center in Aachen-Burtscheid, home of the puppet theater from 1954 to 1981 (Photo: June 2019)

After the stage had various venues in the first decades (most recently in the then Kalverbenden youth center in Aachen-Burtscheid, where it was located from 1954 to 1981), it has been located in the Barockfabrik cultural center , a former cloth factory, since January 1982 .

Independent of the promotion of the Aachen dialect and the character of the Öcher Schängche, the Förderkreis Öcher Schängche eV has been organizing the world's first Aachen stick puppet cabaret Pech & Schwefel in High German since 2008 . Ideas and texts come from the cabaret artist Wendelin Haverkamp, who is also known beyond the Aachen region .

For its services to the Aachen dialect, the Öcher Schängche eV was awarded the THOUET dialect price of the city of Aachen in 1986 .

main characters

In addition to the eponymous figure of the Schängchen, there are other figures that appear regularly in the pieces.

  • Schängchen: main character; a young, always helpful man, who knows a thing or two about it and who always manages to save himself from the most dangerous situations with his peasant cunning.
  • Nieres: a good friend of the Schängchen who doesn't like to work and is sometimes a little anxious.
  • Veries: another good friend of the Schängchen who, unlike Nieres, does not shy away from work.
  • Aunt Hazzor: Aunt des Schängchens and market woman at the Aachen market, where she has a vegetable stand. She is not afraid of anything or anyone, but is also known for her golden heart.
  • Jretchen: Schängchen's permanent fiancé, who is always at his side with advice and action when he needs help.
  • Noppeney: Policeman at the Aachen market, who is particularly annoyed with the Aachen market women who dance on his nose.
  • Eulalia: Housekeeper for the Mayor of Aachen, who is sometimes a bit naive and difficult to understand.
  • Krippekratz & Pesteluures: two devils who keep trying to wipe out the Schängchen and the Aachen citizens, but who regularly fail with their plans.

Pieces of the Öcher Schängche

Children's pieces (selection)

  • Der Teufel in Aachen (by Will Hermanns - Die Aachener Dombausage, which is played as the first piece at the beginning of each season)
  • The bell casting at Aachen
  • The miracle apples (by Will Hermanns)
  • De Düvelskess / The Bewitched Printen (by Will Hermanns)
  • The golden goose (by Will Hermanns)
  • The Frog King (by Will Hermanns)
  • Schängchen and the genie in a bottle (by Will Hermanns)
  • Unodoz, the little dragon (by Karin Fiseni, edited by Paul Drießen)
  • King Drosselbart
  • The great magician Kamuff
  • The worm witches
  • The golden tree
  • Cinderella
  • The miracle violin
  • Kobold vom Lavenstein
  • Caliph stork
  • Schängchen in need
  • The bewitched sleigh
  • The red backed
  • sleeping Beauty
  • Bobbin lace
  • Princess thousand beautiful
  • Rumpelstiltskin
  • De Knusperhex
  • The spirit in the cathedral
  • Kobold Blitzebutz (by Wilhelm Dithmar)

Adult pieces (selection)

  • De Fraulü vajjene Maat (by Hein Janssen , edited by Paul Drießen)
  • Wat es laus beij Pirlapong (based on arsenic and lace , edited by Otto Trebels)
  • Doctor Faust's journey into hell (by Prof. Will Hermanns)
  • De Prente än dr jrueße Stadtbrank va 1656
  • Et leddelich Klieblatt
  • The beggar student
  • The sealed mayor
  • Schängchen and the spectacle snake Sandra
  • Sandra and her made-up Aaron
  • The worm witches

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oecher Schängche - History on Aachen.de, accessed on June 14, 2019.
  2. ↑ Bad luck and sulfur. The stick puppet cabaret in the Schängche. In: Kulturserver-nrw.de. Retrieved June 15, 2012 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 22.1 ″  N , 6 ° 4 ′ 45.3 ″  E