Erhard Reis

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Erhard Reis (* 1928 in Haldensleben ; † 1991?) Was a German teacher of works and art, as well as a puppeteer , television presenter and author of children's books.

Life

Reis was the son of the Neuhaldensleben architect Erwin Reis. The artistically gifted young man learned his skills under Harro Siegel at the Werkkunstschule Braunschweig. At the end of the 1940s he first worked with hand puppets . B. a puppet guide cross, he was also a talented puppeteer who could inspire children. From the mid-1950s, he made a name for himself with a few television appearances. In 1956 he first went on air with the television totem club in the NWRV .

Erhard Reis became known to a broad, especially younger, audience through the children's series Der Indianer-Club and Der Cowboy-Club , which were produced by NDR from 1964 to 1971 and from 1966 to 1967 and broadcast on ARD . In these series, Reis made cowboy and Indian jewelry (e.g. feather jewelry and moccasins) with children and young people.

He also published children's books with the aim of creating Indian jewelry.

The inspiration for this came from Reis u. a. on a trip to the USA in August 1952 when he was visiting the northwestern part of Michigan and Wisconsin, where he attended the Indian Ceremonial in the Middle West at Stand Rock and recorded a lot about the dances and chants. Examples include the rainbow or buffalo dance of the Zuni Indians, the festival dance of the Sioux or the chants of the Hoopa Indians.

In the spring of 1953 Reis visited the reservations of the Hopi, Navajo and Apache in Arizona as well as Santa Fe and the Rio Grande in New Mexico. In Santa Fa a visit to the local Indian Museum was part of the program. The sand paintings of the Navajo, the weaving arts of the Hopi and the pottery of the Acoma and San Ildefonso Indians found his admiration. Eventually he bought tapestries, blankets and a kachina doll from Hopi Indians .

These trips to the USA were an essential basis for his further occupation with Indian art and also flowed into later TV productions.

Publications

  • The hand puppet - manufacture and play, Opladen 1950.
  • Kasper and Lumpi, Cologne 1950.
  • From the moccasin to the totem pole, Braunschweig 1957 (published again one year later in Ravensburg)
  • Indian with moccasin and tomahawk - Indian equipment for boys and girls, Ravensburg 1964.
  • Moccasin and feather headdress - Indian handicrafts, Ravensburg 1977.
  • The half-timbered house Lange Straße 61 - an important cultural monument in Haldensleben, in: Annual journal of the district museum Haldensleben, Volume 31, Haldensleben 1991, pp. 87-90.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erhard Reis: The half-timbered house Lange Straße 61 - An important Haldensleben cultural monument, in: Annual journal of the district museum Haldensleben, Volume 31, Haldensleben 1991, p. 87.
  2. ^ Astrid Fülbier: Hand puppet and marionette theater in Schleswig-Holstein 1920 - 1960, Kiel 2002, p. 261.
  3. ↑ Erhard Reis: From moccasin to totem pole, Ravensburg 1958, p. 63f.
personal data
SURNAME Reis, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher of works and art, also puppeteer, television presenter and author of children's books
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Haldensleben
DATE OF DEATH 20th century