Little game

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The Little Play Marionette Theater is a private theater founded in Munich in 1947 , in which puppet pieces for adults are performed. It is located at Neureutherstraße 12 in the Maxvorstadt district .

founding

As early as April 1946 , the license to play, which was necessary shortly after the Second World War , was granted by the American military government to the former Marionetten-Kammerspiel München , which had been founded by Peter Auzinger in the 1930s . The great destruction of the city and the psychological burden of the past war years left hardly any space for such a project, on the one hand, and on the other hand this was the main motivation:

“We all lost almost everything. With the material and ideal concepts, a large part of the belief in the good in people has also been lost. We are all between 20 and 25 years old and have been cheated, cheated of the ideals of life. [...] We have to remedy this if we don't want to lose ourselves in the chaos of time. [...] The burning desire is in us to be happy again. There is still a small spark of love for music, culture and life in us. […] So we started to rebuild our old love, our little puppet theater. We have decided to help each other to secure a new, free life with bearable foundations. [...] It is our wish to finally forget the pressure of the past years. "

- from: Thoughts about our theater studio , around 1946

The venue was set up on the fourth floor of the partially destroyed house Ainmillerstraße 37 in the Schwabing district . When the theater founder and director, Peter Auzinger, died in 1946 during construction work in the theater, his 15 or so teammates lost the strength to continue the theater project, but finally on February 7, 1947, an auditorium for 75 visitors was ceremoniously opened. This date is still considered to be the founding date of the Little Game.

Over the years, some now well-known personalities have been actively involved in the game; Tankred Dorst wrote his first pieces for the Little Game, Wilhelm Killmayer and Michael Ende should also be mentioned. The former Lord Mayor of the City of Munich, Christian Ude , wrote reviews of plays in the Little Game for a school newspaper while he was at school.

Another story

  • from February 7, 1947 to 1951 at Ainmillerstraße 37 (fourth floor)
  • from 1951 to 1956 at the university riding school on Koeniginstrasse
  • February 25, 1956: Move to the basement at Neureutherstrasse 12, 80799 Munich
  • September 13, 1965: The Little Game receives the Schwabing Art Prize
  • 1971: The Munich City Council awards the "Prize for Interpretive Art"
  • February 7, 1997: Das Kleine Spiel celebrates its 50th birthday
  • July 15, 1997: Beginning of extensive renovation work, game break
  • December 1997: Game operations are resumed
  • July 1998: The second part of the renovation begins, another game break
  • December 1998: The renovation is completed, gaming operations are resumed
  • July 13, 2004: Das Kleine Spiel receives the Schwabing Art Prize for the second time
  • February 8, 2007: On the 60th anniversary of the opening, the in-house production “Wal De Mar and the Water Heads” premieres
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Today's game operation

Every Thursday at 8 p.m. (with the exception of the Bavarian school holidays), changing pieces are played in Neureutherstraße 12 (Arcisstraße entrance). Admission is free, admission tickets and reservations are not issued; instead, it is sufficient to appear punctually for admission at 7.45 p.m. The theater is financed exclusively through donations, which can be placed in a specially provided black cylinder after the performance.

repertoire

After the premiere piece "Woe to the one who lies" by Franz Grillparzer , many more followed, some by well-known authors such as Bertolt Brecht , Ben Jonson or Tankred Dorst , but some of them were self-written. The Little Game always experiments with the possibilities of literary puppet theater, from the virtuoso marionette to the extreme reduction to a moving symbol and from the poetic story to cabaret to musical numbers.

To date, the repertoire includes:

piece author description Premiere Last performance
Holy Night Ludwig Thoma Christmas legend in Upper Bavarian dialect November 27, 1949 December 2012
Aucassin and Nicolette Tankred Dorst A fairy tale for adults May 28, 1953
New version 1964 		May 2014
A Trumpet for Nap Tankred Dorst The rise and fall of a dishwasher May 14, 1959 June 2015
Volpone Ben Jonson Inherited sneak comedy in the style of the Commedia dell'arte June 21, 1960 May 2015
Maipu's Temptation or
Loyalty Rewarded 		Anselm van Heuveldorp,
Josef Gurgel 		Kanibalette for adults May 18, 1961 February 2016
Man is man Bertolt Brecht Parabolic piece of the total reassembly of humans August 22, 1968
New production 2004 		February 2015
The good man from Sezuan Bertolt Brecht Three gods go in search of a good person October 25, 1984 July 2013
For a handful of water Wilhelm Wasserburger An entertaining western parody November 7, 1985 October 2015
Hurrying night - A current scene program for adults with Maria, Joseph u. v. a. m. December 9, 1993,
last revision 2008 		December 2013
Quick to bite -
5 stars for Dracula Castle 		Peter Geierhaas A vampire parody for adults June 16, 1994 October 2014
Don't go to El Kuwehd ! Günter Eich The merchant Mohallab travels through the desert through the desert to his beloved Fatime and gets caught in an endless vortex between appearance and reality January 10, 2002 June 2014
Wal de Mar and the water heads Marianne Graben,
Beat Anstrøm,
Thadaeus Tidenhub 		A full-length comedy for stick figures, hand puppets and marionettes February 8, 2007 February 2014
Macbeth William Shakespeare October 22, 2009 November 2013
a Christmas Story Charles Dickens November 27, 2014 December 2015
The current schedule can be found here

literature

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  1. ↑ http://www.kleinesspiel.de

Web links

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 17.5 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 22 ″  E