Klaus Breuing

Klaus Breuing (born July 2, 1951 in Wernigerode ) is a German puppeteer , puppet designer and author .

Life

Klaus Breuing was born in Wernigerode in 1951. His mother Käthe, née Winkler, was a doctor's assistant, his father was Brockenbahn dispatcher Walter Breuing. It was a twin birth that brother Wolfgang did not survive. After attending the Protestant kindergarten, Klaus Breuing attended the Diesterweg High School for ten years and began an apprenticeship as a skilled worker for food packaging machine construction in Lauenstein & Co. KG, a factory in which praline wrapping machines were manufactured.

During his primary school years he learned to play the violin for three years and then took guitar lessons from a Czech teacher. In order to escape mechanical engineering, he began to work in 1972 in the state bookstore Buchfreund on Nikolaiplatz as an external retailer and had to supply branches in the Harz region. Due to his appearance and because he played as a guitarist in the amateur band Uhrwerk , he was nicknamed Titch , based on the British rock group Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich . One of the rock lyrics he wrote for Uhrwerk says: Life - not be a puppet! Move, clear your pores! ... At this time he met the future front man of the blues band Engerling - Wolfram Bodag - in Wernigerode . The basic military service in the National People's Army led Klaus Breuing 18 months to Straussberg Nord to the air defense staff .

From 1974 Klaus Breuing lived in East Berlin, initially in an occupied rear building at Marienburger Straße 36. He continued his literary attempts, worked as a bockwurst seller on Alexanderplatz and as a camera cable carrier for GDR television in the old Friedrichstadtpalast . For the rock show rund he replaced the sick guitarist on December 1, 1973 at a performance by the group Kreis with their title "Pipeline". Activities as a lamp seller and sorter in the banana cellar followed. He passed the entrance examination at the University of Music "Hanns Eisler" Berlin in the subject of guitar. After public appearances with his own songs and poems, an apartment search and court hearing followed with the imposition of the so-called Berlin ban . First publications of poems in the magazine and in Temperamente .

After working as a seasonal waiter in the HO restaurant “Christianental” in Wernigerode, he returned to East Berlin and worked as a furniture carrier in the Centrum department store . Another apartment search and rejection from the music college - admission to the technical school for dance music Berlin-Friedrichshain , nude model for the art college Berlin-Weißensee , dropping out of dance music studies after 2½ years. 1975 Acquaintance with the old puppeteer Ilse Iwowski ( Pole Poppenspäler , DEFA 1954) living in Zepernick and with the puppeteer Heidi Schwieder, first joint puppet shows. Audition at the drama school in Berlin - specializing in puppetry. After passing the aptitude test, withdrawal of study admission due to exceeded maximum age for direct students (26 years). Partnership with the writer Katja Lange-Müller . Musician for the concert and guest performance directorate Potsdam. Activities as auxiliary caretaker in the Museum für Naturkunde , nurse in the Charité , external training as a puppeteer at the Elbe-Elster-Theater in Lutherstadt Wittenberg , at the State Puppet Theater in Frankfurt / Oder and on the stages of the city of Zwickau .

After an aborted, undiscovered attempt to escape from the west via Bulgaria-Turkey, Klaus Breuing began his career as a solo puppeteer with self-made puppet pieces, self-designed hand puppets and the “Lampion” backpack stage. Guest performances in the puppet theater in Wismar , on Hiddensee , in the Protestant Foundation Neinstedt and in Berlin kindergartens and schools. from 1985 to 1988 he was a puppeteer at the Anklam Theater , after which he worked as a freelancer. A marriage with the make-up artist Burga Hübbe was divorced after a year. Participation in a political working group of the GDR citizens' movement in the Vorwerk Zerwelin north of Boitzenburg .

Klaus Breuing passed the tavern exam in 1991 and, with the support of the architect Gerd Pieper, converted his own workshop / living space into the Café Lampion - a night owl scene bar with a puppet theater in Knaackstrasse 54 on Berlin's Kollwitzplatz (inauguration on October 21, 1991 ). Architects, librarians, writers, theater people, documentary filmmakers, painters and musicians were regular guests of the pub. Including Rainer Ahrendt, Henryk Bereska , Jochen Berg , Wolfram Bodag , Heinz Brinkmann , Peer Brusselser, Werner Buhss , Wolf Butter , Johann Colden, Thomas Decker, Klaus Ebeling , Rike Eckermann , Sylvia Edelhoff, Peter Ensikat , Andreas Gitzel, Sergej Gladkich, Peter Hacks , Armin Gröpler , Kerstin Heller, Dieter Hermann, Wolfgang Hilbig , Helga Höhne, Klaus "Mozart" Holtfreter, Peter Hübel, Christian Jädicke, Carlo Jordan , Manfred Kiedorf , Günter Kotte , Reinhard Kraetzer, Manfred Krug , Gudrun Landmesser, Kurt Naumann , Manfred Machlitt, Waltraud Meienreis, Jean-pierre Morkerken, Kurt Mühle, Uli F. Mohr, Willi Paech, Hans-Jürgen Pabst , Karl Werner Plath , Klaus Renft , Viola Sandberg, Mideele Schade, Priska Schilling, Gerd Schönfeld, Rainer M. Schulz , Reiner Slotta, Anke Stahnke, Max Stock , Matthias Thalheim, Wolfgang Thierse , Bernd Tobel, Michael Voges, Jutta Voigt , Peter Voigt , Bastienne Voss , Peter Wawerzinek , Petra Wildenhahn, Gerd Zeuchner.

In 1993 Regina Gleim gave birth to their daughter Charlotte. In that year Klaus Breuing also acquired the building of the former village school in the Uckermark village of Funkenhagen and has been holding puppet theater performances there since 1997 in the expanded former coal shed, which later also served as the village's bus stop , with plays such as: Robber Hotzenklotz , Sleeping Beauty and the prince Hinz von Pfefferminz , Kasper, Hansel and Gretel or Little Red Riding Hood, Madame Oh-là-là, the wine and the wolf . Due to a change of house owner, the Café Lampion in Berlin was closed on May 3, 2003 . Since then, Funkenhagen has been the permanent residence of the freelance puppeteer.

Fonts

• Nice visit , poem, in: Das Magazin, issue 04/1979, page 22
• Lampion !: Anecdotes, poems, stories by Klaus Breuing, edited by Matthias Thalheim, Neopubli GmbH, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7418-2111-0 .

Filmography

• Gix-Gax , games for everyone from six, author: Kerstin Haake, moderator: Uwe Karpa , music: Thomas Natschinski , GDR television, December 7, 1984
• Kiez Knaackstraße , contribution by Rasmus Gerlach, Ticket, SFB, February 2, 1995
• Prince of Peppermint - Out and about with a puppeteer , report by Angelika Kettelhack and Uli Gellermann, camera: Michael Lösche, ORB, July 18, 2000
• Lampion - C'est si bon , documentary by Günter Kotte , camera: Rainer M. Schulz , RBB, February 13, 2002
• Visit to the puppet theater , contribution by Ulli cell , Heimatjournal, RBB, July 15, 2006
• The Puppeteer , contribution by Friederike Witthuhn, Nordmagazin; NDR, August 31, 2008
• Puppet theater Lampion , contribution by Martina Holling and Ralph Stolle, Heimatjournal, RBB, 23 January 2010
• The stage on your back , contribution by Kathrin Matern, Nordmagazin, NDR, September 17, 2014

Radio

• 1997: Participation in: "Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben" - radio play based on Hans Fallada, role: Harms ; Director: Jürgen Dluzniewski, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , also published as an audio book, 5 CDs (345 min.), Osterwold-Audio, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86952-123-7 .
• 2009: The gift of hand - puppeteers tell stories with Klaus Breuing and Volkmar Funke, radio documentary, manuscript and director: Matthias Thalheim, MDR

Web links

• Klaus Breuing on the homepage of his puppet theater Lampion

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matthias Thalheim: Mythos Möwe - The legendary artist club is turning 60. A memory , Berliner Zeitung of June 10, 2006
2. ↑ Petra Ahne: A lantern for warming - Günter Kotte made a film about an artists' pub on Knaackstrasse , Berliner Zeitung from October 19, 2001
3. ^ Peter Wawerzinek: From Klaus to Klaus around the house - Klaus & Peter , in: Berliner Zeitung of February 19, 2009
4. ↑ Lars-Ulrich Schlotthaus: Lights out in the lunatic asylum - With the lantern, one of the last bars on Kollwitzplatz closes during the turning point. And Graf von Kiedorf is looking for a new command post , daily newspaper from May 6, 2003, p. 24
5. ↑ Peter Wawerzinek: For people who shut up - Klaus & Peter in: Berliner Zeitung of March 9, 2007