Darmstadt paper theater collection
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| place | Darmstadt |
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| opening | 1994/1997 |
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The Darmstadt Paper Theater Collection is a museum in Darmstadt .
history
The teacher Walter Röhler, who was born in Darmstadt on July 19, 1911, began at an early age to build up a collection of original sheets for assembling paper theaters and also to collect ready-made stages. The example of paper theaters in the home was widespread in 19th century civil society. Special publishers sold sheets for assembling paper theaters to scale. These arches were designed by well-known artists. In Darmstadt, among others, the court theater painter Carl Beyer designed stage decorations for paper theaters. There were also text books with the abbreviated and simplified renditions of classical pieces.
Walter Röhler collected and researched the history of paper theaters. He also published essays and reviews.
After the death of Walter Röhler on January 24, 1974 in Mörstadt , the city of Darmstadt inherited the paper theater collection and his written estate.
The collection was initially housed in the museum depot on Mathildenhöhe . Later it went on loan to the German Institute for Puppetry - DIP in Bochum for years .
In 1995 the city of Darmstadt received the collection back. In 1995 and 1996, the collection was organized, made accessible and secured by a theater scholar and subsequently transferred to the Verein Nachbarschaftsheim Darmstadt e. V. handed over. In the following years, the association took on the care and maintenance of the collection. He was supported in this by the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Darmstadt Paper Theater Collection, founded in 1994 . The Mathildenhöhe Institute has been responsible for the collection again since 2019.
Location and scope
Since 1997 the paper theater collection has been housed in a building in the city of Darmstadt. The publicly accessible collection includes 114 assembled paper theaters, 77 complete sets of figures and scenery and over 8,000 paper theater arcs. There is also a specialist library with several hundred volumes.
Others
Walter Röhler's written estate is in the Darmstadt City Archives.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Stadtlexikon Darmstadt, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, p. 698
Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 19.5 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 49.9 ″ E