Hanspeter Bleisch

Hanspeter Bleisch (born August 23, 1945 in Zurich ) is a Swiss puppeteer . He is the founder of the stage puppet theater Bleisch .

Life

Bleisch is the son of social pedagogue and puppeteer Hans Bleisch and Rösli Bleisch-Munz. He completed an apprenticeship as a structural draftsman from 1962 to 1965 and worked at the youth center of the Christian Association of Young Men. In 1970 he founded the Bleisch puppet theater. In 1975 Ursula Imhof joined the puppet theater. They married in 1978. In 1975 he became secretary of the Swiss Association for Puppetry (SVfP) and was its president from 1981 to 1984. He published and illustrated works on puppet theater. He has also designed exhibitions, including the touring exhibition “CH-Puppenspiel” (1982), “25 Years of Bleisch Puppet Theater”, which was shown in 1996 at the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur , and “World of Puppet Theater” (2000 at the Lindengut Museum , Winterthur).

Publications

• Puppet theater, theater puppets. This is how dolls are built, how dolls are played, that is how dolls can play (with Werner Hürlimann and Ursula Bleisch-Imhof). Orell Füssli, Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-280-01245-7
• Puppet theater, theater puppets. A work and performance book (with Ursula Bleisch-Imhof. Photos by Jiří Vurma). AT-Verlag, Aarau 1991, ISBN 3-85502-406-5
• Schusselengel Amélie (with Camille Schär, Sophie Lamare). Cleverkids, Bachenbülach 2006, ISBN 978-3-9523099-5-7 (sound carrier)

literature

• Gustav Gysin: Hanspeter Bleisch . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 217 f.