Puppet theater Lilarum

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The Vienna LILARUM, 2010.

The puppet theater LILARUM is a Viennese puppet theater and an essential Austrian cultural institution for children.

history

The puppet stage was founded in 1980 by Traude Kossatz as a traveling stage and in 1984 settled in a small basement stage with 30 seats in Vienna's 14th district . 1997 new premises with up to 120 seats were opened in Erdberg . Since then, the puppet theater LILARUM has been the largest puppet theater in Austria that is constantly used.

ensemble

A total of around 15 employees, including 6 puppeteers, take care of the operation:

  • Artistic director: Traude Kossatz
  • Technical & economic management: Paul Kossatz

repertoire

The little moon dragon, 2010.

The repertoire consists of 26 in-house productions for children and three productions for adults. One or two new productions are created annually, often in collaboration with well-known Austrian (children's) authors such as Friedl Hofbauer , Erwin Moser , Ernst Molden and others. In addition to around 370 performances from September to June, the ensemble also gives guest performances in German-speaking countries and appears at relevant festivals.

The program is supplemented by guest performances, for example by Christoph Bochdansky , Karin Schäfer , Natascha Gundacker ,….

Theater education

In the 2003/04 season, pupils from the Educational Institute for Kindergarten Education, Vienna 10 (BAKIP 10) worked in cooperation with the puppet theater on the play Katervaterhasensohn (based on the picture book by Jana Frey (text) and Marlies Schraff-Kniemeyer (illustrations)), which was released in March It premiered in 2004. In the 2005/06 season, the puppet game Gackitas Egg based on the children's book by Antonella Bolliger-Savelli (illustrations) and Elisabeth Stiemert (text), which premiered in May 2006 , was developed in a further collaboration with students from BAKIP 10 .

The theater pedagogical program is supplemented by workshop discussions, play hours and studios. Since 2004, four performances have been translated into Austrian sign language per season .

Technical

Figures and sets

All figures and sets are designed and built by Traude Kossatz and her team in the in-house workshop. The core of the figures usually consists of foam , the basic material of the stage elements is cardboard, which is painted or covered with fabric. In the four-meter-wide and three-meter-high peep box stage , five players move the stick puppets , hand puppets and stick hand puppets , snap- mouth figures and flat puppets from below ; the players are hidden by the approximately 1.80 meter high stage wall.

volume

The voices of the characters are spoken and come by well-known Austrian actors, cabaret artists and musicians such as Wolfram Berger , Maria Bill , Herbert Föttinger , Adi Hirschal , Karl Ferdinand Kratzl , Michael Niavarani , Marianne Mendt , Hilde Sochor , Wilfried , as well as those of composers like Fritz Keil , Alexander Kukelka or Armin Pokorn , music composed especially for each piece, always from tape.

Awards

Memberships

The theater is a member of the following bodies:

literature

  • Sandra Kramel: Situation and product policy analysis to maximize capacity utilization through target group-specific events in a puppet theater for children in Vienna. Diploma thesis at the University of Applied Sciences Modul, Vienna
  • Johanna Range: The puppet theater LILARUM - investigation of its development history and intention, taking into account the aesthetics of puppet theater and its significance for theater education. Diploma thesis University of Vienna, 2004
  • Elke Krafka (Red.): Puppet theater LILARUM - Traude Kossatz, puppets and stages. Catalog for the exhibition in the Austrian Theater Museum, Puppen & Masken, Frankfurt am Main, 2009, ISBN 978-3-935011-71-6

Web links

Commons : LILARUM  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Press review, 2004
  2. ↑ source?
  3. ↑ lilarum.at
  4. ↑ lilarum.at
  5. ↑ lilarum.at

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