Franz Leonhard Schadt
Franz Leonhard Schadt (born July 15, 1910 in Munich ; † September 3, 2009 in Eichenau ) was a German actor and puppet player in Munich.
biography
Franz Leonhard Schadt was born on July 15, 1910 in Munich with his identical twin brother Otto Schadt. At the age of twelve they both played self-written plays with self-made puppets and gave performances for young and old. It was clear to him early on that he wanted to learn the art of acting. He took acting, speaking and singing lessons and during the Second World War he traveled around the country as a tour director of the so-called "KdF" puppet stage by Fritz Gerhards. After the war, Schadt continued his acting work at city theaters until he finally made his way to the Munich puppet theater . In 1954, Franz Leonhard Schadt also designed the first children's programs with puppets for Bavarian television. In 1957 Franz Leonhard Schadt became director of the Munich Marionette Theater and directed it for 43 years. Together with his wife Elga Blumhoff-Schadt († 1990) he created a repertoire comprising 30 pieces and 400 marionettes.
Munich Marionette Theater
From 1951 to 1954 Schadt was artistic director at the Munich Marionette Theater. His wife rewrote well-known fairy tales for the puppet theater and built in the Kasperl Larifari - as a friend of the children - to whom Schadt gave his incomparably Munich-sounding voice and Bavarian humor. Thanks to the close collaboration with Carl Orff , “ Die Kluge ”, “ Der Mond ” and “ Prometheus ” were added to the program from 1959 to 1981 . At that time it was the first and only theater that performed Prometheus in ancient Greek, which earned the Munich marionette theater the name “smallest opera house in the world”.
aims
Franz Leonhard Schadt wanted to revolutionize conventional puppetry and used the puppet's ability to float for his productions. For the children he wanted to “create a living picture book”. Again and again he emphasized the three most important aspects of puppetry. First the sound, second the movement and third, the most important aspect, the “creative imagination” of the viewer. Because without this, the best puppet show is worthless. As an ambassador for the “art of puppetry in Munich”, Schadt traveled to Austria (Vienna), Holland (Rotterdam), Japan (Saporo) and Russia (Kiev), among others.
In the summer of 2000, after being named by the cultural department of the state capital Munich, the former long-time employee and now freelance puppeteer, builder and spokesman Siegfried Böhmke took over the management of the theater and thus dissolved FL Schadt - now 90 years old - after 43 years of management from. Schadt was in charge of the theater for a longer period than anyone before. The current directors of the Tölzer Marionettenbühne also emerge from the former Schadt ensemble.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Munich Marionette Theater - a tradition. Munich Marionette Theater. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schadt, Franz Leonhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and puppeteer in Munich |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 3, 2009 |
| Place of death | Eichenau |