Günther Weißenborn (puppeteer)

Günther Wilhelm Weißenborn (born March 6, 1951 in Göttingen ) is a dramaturge and puppeteer .

Weißenborn writes plays for children and has made a name for himself as a designer and presenter of family concerts , which he has developed with orchestras all over Germany . With his wife Ursula, he founded “ Müller's Marionetten-Theater ” in Bremen in 1983 , which was given its own theater in Wuppertal in 1993 , which the couple run as personally liable partners.

biography

Günther W. Weißenborn was born in 1951 in Göttingen, the first child of the musician Günther Weißenborn and the second child of Elske Weißenborn, widowed Gritschke, née Grytzka.

He attended schools in Göttingen, Laubach and Detmold in order to pass the Abitur in 1972 at the Musisches Gymnasium in Detmold. He then studied medical apparatus engineering and later musicology in Giessen and Hamburg . He broke off his studies in 1977, following a call as a dramaturge at the Schauspielhaus Nürnberg (director Hansjörg Utzerath ). He later worked as a music dramaturge at the city theaters in Lübeck , Bremen (Artistic Director Arno Wüstenhöfer ) and Wuppertal, before moving to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf / Duisburg (Artistic Director Kurt Horres ) in 1986, to which he was a member for six years.

In 1983 he and his wife Ursula (née Müller) founded “Müller’s Marionette Theater” in Bremen, which in 1993 opened its own theater in Wuppertal .

In 1993 Günther W. Weißenborn became a freelance dramaturge and joined Müller's puppet theater as a puppeteer, which has been run by the married couple Ursula and Günther Weißenborn as a personally liable partner since that year.

Günther W. Weißenborn has two children.

Web links

• www.familienkonzerte.com