Fritz Powder

Fritz Puder (* 1891 ; † 1951 ) was a German marionette player from the Dresden and Eastern Saxony area.

life and work

Fritz Puder learned the trade as a puppet player with Heinrich Apel in Dresden. After running a photo shop in what is now Freital from 1919 and a cigar shop from 1922, he opened his own stage in Freital in 1927. Puder lived in the Deuben district of Freital between the Egermühle and the Sohre leather factory in Angerstraße (house no. 7), which is no longer there today, part of the old village center. The puppets were made by Albin Richter († 1926). In 1928, Puder expanded his puppet theater to include Curt Bille's stage . Play areas were the Weißeritztal , the area around Dresden and the Lausitz . After the end of the war Fritz Puder was repeatedly revoked for political reasons. In Freital, among other things, he gave performances in the “ Wettingrund ” inn , which was canceled after 1948 for the sludge ponds of the uranium processing plant 93 of Wismut AG. To transport the puppet stage, he used a handcart that he pulled himself. After his death, his widow Helene († 1976) soon gave up the stage. A small part of the puppets and numerous texts later ended up in the puppet theater collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden .

Web links

• Figures in the Dresden State Art Collections