Theater Figure Museum Lübeck

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TheaterFigurenMuseum
Exhibition room Theater Figurenmuseum Lübeck
Mechanical figures
Animal ballet, flat figures, around 1900, Germany
Shadow figure of the Wayang-Kulit shadow theater
Ogoni, Nigeria, Africa, male wooden figures
Elephant and young man, yoke -thé puppets from the end of the 19th century from Myanmar

The Theaterfigurenmuseum Lübeck , spelling TheaterFigurenMuseum , is a museum for the past and present of puppet theater in Europe, Africa and Asia. Stages and barrel organs , shadow plays , dangling puppets and all kinds of curiosities are on display in the museum. The museum is located in five historic brick Gothic merchant houses in the small street Kolk in the old town of Lübeck, not far from the St. Petri Church .

museum

The museum was born out of the decades-long passion for collecting of Fritz Fey , who comes from a family of puppeteers and pursued his hobby on business trips: He collected theater figures, enthusiastic about the variety of their ways of expression in the various theater traditions of international puppet theater . Thematically related to the renowned special collections of the Munich City Museum and the puppet theater collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , it is a contribution to the Lübeck museum landscape, which is funded by the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , the Schleswig-Holstein Cultural Foundation and as a partner by the Possehl Foundation . Martina Wagner headed the museum from 2012 to 2014, from December 2014 the art historian Felicia Sternfeld acted as director. Antonia Napp, born in Lübeck, has been managing director since November 15, 2015. The TheaterFigurenMuseum has been closed for renovation work for an expected two years since December 31, 2017.

collection

The museum shows around a thousand exhibits from three centuries, they come from Europe , Africa and Asia . The museum exhibits the following groups of figures: hand puppets (e.g. Hohnsteiner Kasper , Punch and Judy ), puppets and dangling puppets (e.g. Opera dei Pupi ), stick puppets (e.g. Hänneschen and Bärbel, Toone) and finger puppets , Quirks , shadow play figures , jointed puppets, ventriloquist puppets and mechanical figures of all kinds.

The outstanding exhibits in the museum include the imaginative shadow play figures of Indonesia ( wayang ), the "dog clowns" who performed together with a real dog, the metamorphoses , technically sophisticated transformation dolls , and the head of a Japanese bunraku figure .

Abstract figures by the Kassel art professor Harry Kramer represent the avant-garde in the museum's collection; they belong to his first of two programs 13 Scenes (first performed in 1955 in the Springer Gallery , Berlin). His mechanical theater consisted of bizarre abstract sculptures made of paper mache, wood and wire, which two players set in motion in collage-like scenes to the music on a small black stage. Kramer's puppet theater did not show a sequence of actions, like the classic puppet play, but rather sequences of movements designed for pieces of music, jazz and musique concrète .

In addition to theater characters, the museum also presents posters, props , sets, costumes , musical instruments and entire theaters. It is in the possession of several estates, including a. the puppeteer dynasty Layerl .

The museum has a small specialist library; the catalog is expected to be researchable from 2016 onwards via the joint library network (GBV).

Visitors can deepen the subject with a museum quiz.

The museum has a shop and a café.

From September 2010 to the end of 2011, as part of the project digital-photographic recording of the holdings of the TheaterFigurenMuseum Lübeck , which is funded by the Possehl Foundation Lübeck , the around 35,000 pieces in the exhibition and fund of the museum were largely photographed and those about Fritz Fey available collection information digitally recorded. Images and information are freely available to the public on the Internet. In addition to digital archiving, the aim is also to give collectors and scientists as well as private experts and interested parties the opportunity to take part in the correction, addition, discussion and improvement of the collection information on a separate internet work platform.

International significance

The museum has exhibits in its collection that represent the intangible cultural heritage of mankind. The puppet theater is increasingly protected by UNESCO , which already includes the Sicilian puppet theater "Opera dei Pupi" (2001), the Indonesian Wayang Kulit (2003), the Japanese Ningyō Jōruri Bunraku (2003) and the Cambodian shadow theater Sbek thom der Khmer (2005) declared masterpieces of the oral and intangible heritage of mankind . The People's Republic of China also declared both shadow play and puppet theater to be an intangible cultural heritage of the People's Republic of China in 2006 and ratified the UNESCO Convention on the Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2004.

Special exhibitions

Friedlander poster
  • In the summer of 2010, large-format shadow play figures from South India were shown floating under the brick Gothic church vaults in the neighboring Petrikirche .
  • February 5 to July 7, 2012: Kramer lost property. Discovered +++ Discovered +++ Developed by Harry Kramer
  • July 13 to October 21, 2012: In the realm of shadows. Chinese shadow theater meets Peking Opera
  • February 15 to May 12, 2013: modeling clay, wire and camera. Animation and puppet cartoons
  • June 28th to September 30th 2013: Stars an Fäden visit Lübeck. The Augsburger Puppenkiste
  • November 17, 2013 to February 16, 2014: Floating. Life. Dream. A hands-on exhibition about the world of Moomins
  • April 6 to June 9, 2014: Adolph Friedländer - lithographs & posters
  • since July 6, 2014: The finest and most elegant family theater: Xaverschichtl's marionette vaudeville
  • March 15 to September 30, 2015: Sapperlot! The robber Hotzenplotz on the move. An exhibition with theater figures after Otfried Preußler - special exhibition with a visitor record of almost 12,000 visitors
  • November 13, 2015 to February 7, 2016: Christophe Loiseau. Manipulated portraits | Portraits Manipulés. a photo exhibition

literature

  • Museum for Puppet Theater in Lübeck (ed.): Lübeck: Museum for Puppet Theater , 1991, 3rd ed.
  • Finest family theater. Layerl's Marionetten-Varieté-Theater , catalogs of the museums in Schleswig-Holstein 9, Kiel 1993
  • Karl Winter's large mechanical puppet and art figure theater , catalogs of the museums in Schleswig-Holstein 35, Kiel 1997
  • Katharina Urbschat (text) / Fritz Fey jr. (Photos): Historical theater figures , Museum for Puppet Theater Lübeck, Fritz Fey jr collection, DrägerDruck, Lübeck 1999, ISBN 3-925402-90-X
  • Astrid Fülbier: Theaterfigurenmuseum Lübeck , in: UNIMA-Zentrum Deutschland (Ed.), Das Andere Theater No. 62, 2006, pp. 34–37
  • Astrid Fülbier: TheaterFigurenMuseum Lübeck, catalog, Lübeck 2009
  • TheaterFigurenMuseum Lübeck / Figurentheater Lübeck / UNIMA Germany (ed.), Lost property: KRAMER - discovered, explored, developed , theater characters in the Kolk - Volume 1: Special exhibition - Film Night - Symposium, Puppets & Masks, Frankfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-935011- 85-3
  • TheaterFigurenMuseum Lübeck / UNIMA Germany (ed.), In the realm of shadows - Chinese shadow theater meets Peking Opera , theater figures in the Kolk - Volume 2: Catalog for the special exhibition, Puppets & Masks, Frankfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-935011-86-0

Web links

Commons : Lübeck Theaterfigurenmuseum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lübecker Nachrichten of December 29, 2011, p. 16: Figurfreund says goodbye
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ Astrid Fülbier: TheaterFiguenMuseum Lübeck, catalog, Lübeck 2009, p. 100 ff. (Section: Puppet theater and the art of the 20th century with images of the clothes hanger (1956) and a figure of the mechanical theater (1958), both p. 103) .
  5. ↑ Dieter Honisch (Vorw.): 1945–1985 Art in the Federal Republic of Germany , National Gallery. Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1985, p. 397
  6. ↑ Project website "Digital-photographic recording of the holdings of the TheaterFigurenMuseum Lübeck"
  7. ↑ [2]

Illustrations

  1. ↑ Harry Kramer: Mechanisches Theater ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), exhibition Museum Bellerive Zurich 1980/81 (Figures 1 to 4 from left)

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