International puppet theater festival in the Elbe-Elster-Land

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The International Puppet Theater Festival in Elbe-Elster-Land is a week-long event that has been taking place regularly since 1998 in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg .

history

Bad Liebenwerda puppet theater collection

The Elbe-Elster-Land is considered to be the cradle of the Saxon traveling puppet theater . For this reason, since 1998 a permanent exhibition in the Bad Liebenwerda district museum has been dealing with the history of the puppet theater in the Elbe-Elster area under the title From the shoemaker's awl to the marionette twine . In order to convey the topic of "puppet theater" to the visitors in a lively way, the idea of ​​setting up an international puppet theater festival was born and puppeteers were invited to travel across the entire district to perform plays for both children and adults in the localities to lead. In addition to Germany , the puppeteers come from other countries such as Belgium , Denmark , Switzerland and Lebanon . The puppet theater festival opens every year in the Finsterwalder district museum. Other fixed items on the program are “The Long Night of Puppetry” in Bad Liebenwerda and the “Varieté dance evening” in Reichenhain .

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Footnotes and individual references

  1. Ralf Uschner: "From the shoemaker's awl to the puppet thread" In: Home calendar for the old district of Bad Liebenwerda, the Mückenberger Ländchen, outskirts on Schraden and Uebigau-Falkenberg . Ed .: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde e. V. Bad Liebenwerda. Bad Liebenwerda 2003, p. 99-103 .
  2. ↑ In 2010 the puppeteers of the festival will perform a total of 55 times in 26 villages in the Elbe-Elster district.