Fritz Wortelmann

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Fritz Wortelmann (born March 13, 1902 in Werne , today in Bochum , † April 1, 1976 ) was a German author, editor , publisher , dramaturge and promoter of puppet theater in Germany.

Act

Wortelmann was very committed to puppetry as early as the 1920s . Even after the Second World War he worked on the reconstruction of the German puppet theater scene. In 1950 he was the initiator of the German Institute for Puppetry (DIP). As a successor institution, the German Forum for Puppet Theater and Puppetry (dfp) was founded in Bochum in 1992 . Wortelmann also founded the Figure Theater School in Bochum.

In November 1958, as director of the German Institute for Puppetry, Wortelmann invited for the first time to a "series of presentations by outstanding German and foreign theaters - masters of puppetry" in Bochum. Puppeteers from Stuttgart , East Berlin , Paris and Moscow took part. This laid the foundation stone for the renowned international puppet theater festival FIDENA ( Puppet Theater of Nations ).

Works (selection)

  • Old Landsknechtsschwänke. Selected and linguistically renewed by Fritz Wortelmann. E. Diederichs, Jena 1925.
  • Ten years Stadttheater Bochum, Artistic Director Dr. Saladin Schmitt. Booklet for the festival presentation on December 30, 1925 combined with a report on the 3rd to 9th seasons 1917/18–1924/25. City Theater, Bochum 1926.
  • Old Landsknechtsongs. Provided with lute accompaniment by Emil Hegel. Book decorations by Herbert Schimkowitz . Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna / Leipzig 1931.
  • Muck. 7 letters from a puppeteer. Deutsche Zentraldruck AG, Berlin 1939.
  • (Editing :) Master of puppetry. Excellent contemporary German and foreign puppet theaters. German Institute for Puppetry, Bochum.
  • Research and Teaching. A scientific and technical series for all types and forms of puppet theater. Directed by Fritz Wortelmann. German Institute f. Puppet show, Bochum.
  • (Editor) Citizens of today. Series of publications, ed. from the Association of German Citizens' Associations . Schacht-Verlag, Bochum (the issues appear 3–4 times a year).

Awards, honors, appreciations

  • Fritz Wortelmann Prize of the City of Bochum for amateur puppet theater

literature

  • Andrea Schmidt: Between tradition and experiment. Comments on puppetry and the avant-garde, on the continuation of lines of tradition and on the development of institutions: with special consideration of the activities of Fritz Wortelmann . Puppets and masks, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-935011-23-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Schmidt: Between tradition and experiment. Puppen und Masken, Frankfurt am Main 2002 ISBN 3-935011-23-7 , p. 44 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ FIDENA - the portal - Fritz Wortelmann Prize - Fritz Wortelmann biography - Fidena - portal for puppet theater and puppetry. Retrieved May 28, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Kasperle rubs his eyes , WAZ from July 10, 2008


personal data
SURNAME Wortelmann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, editor, publisher, dramaturge and promoter of puppet theater in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Werne
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1976