Müller's puppet theater

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Müller's puppet theater

Müller's Marionetten-Theater is a privately owned puppet and marionette theater in Wuppertal . The ensemble plays around 300 performances annually in its own theater in the Elberfeld district of Ostersbaum . All puppets are made in the theater's own atelier. The offer is aimed at children and adults. In addition to the in-house repertoire, which is mainly played with marionettes and playbacks , the ensemble organizes family concerts with many well-known German orchestras, for which experimental, larger and manually moved puppets are also built. In addition, the theater has worked on several live music theater productions. The ensemble has been invited to guest performances in Russia, Japan, Switzerland and France.

history

After working as a foreign correspondent, the Swiss Ursula Müller learned to play and make puppets in the Lübeck Marionette Theater. In 1983 she and her husband, the dramaturge Günther Weißenborn, founded the ensemble in the Packhaus cabaret theater in Bremen . The opening production was the Singspiel Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . In a short period of time three more opera productions were created. Three years later, Müller's Marionette Theater moved to Wuppertal, where it initially played regularly in the foyer of the opera house before, after a stopover in a private television studio, in 1992 the theater was set up in the rooms of a former inn on the Wuppertal Neuenteich. In 2008 the theater was extensively rebuilt and made barrier-free . The theater has a stage with particularly ambitious lighting equipment that includes over 100 theater spotlights.

repertoire

The repertoire is aimed at all age groups, not only in terms of the choice of pieces, but also in terms of their design. According to this, children's pieces should also be interesting for adults and adult pieces for children. The repertoire ranges from fairy tale dramas to theatrical material from the fields of drama , dance theater and opera ; it includes productions such as Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps , Mozart's Magic Flute and a dance of Robert Schumann's piano concerto . Dramaturg Günther Weißenborn wrote the dramatizations for Müller's puppet theater. The performances are basically developed from a uniform aesthetic approach, the stage design, costumes, lighting and figure design follow a holistic idea. In the productions, the music is of particular importance, so composition commissions for the drama music in fairy tale dramas are regularly awarded. The last production is a children's musical by Günther Weißenborn and the composer Uwe Rössler, Brummel - Das Musical. Prominent actors lend their voices to the marionettes, including Bernd Kuschmann , Siegfried W. Maschek , Andrea Witt , Barbara Bayer and Birthe Rüster .

One of the early occupations in the opera sector was the participation of the ensemble in Werner Herzog's production of Carlos Gomes ' opera Il Guarany at the Bonn Opera in 1994, which was also shown at the Washington Opera under Plácido Domingo . In 2002 the theater designed Stravinski's story of the soldier with members of the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra . In the 2008/09 season Bonn was organized jointly with the Opera House Beethoven Orchestra Bonn Lutz Werner Hesse's composition The workshop of the butterflies by Gioconda Belli and Wolf Erlbruch premiered 2009/10 Hesse's chamber opera was Mario with singers and musicians from the Wuppertal Opera in Wuppertal Schauspielhaus for Premiere.

Müller's Marionetten-Theater excelled in the organization of family concerts for symphony orchestras. The first production with Edvard Grieg's incidental music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt was invited to the Berlin Philharmonic in. This was followed by collaborations with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra , the Duisburg Philharmonic , the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Essen Philharmonic , the Bochum Symphony , the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra and the Kassel State Orchestra . Müller's Marionetten-Theater brought out the opera Philemon and Baucis by Joseph Haydn in the Bochum Schauspielhaus and at the Haydn Festival in Kemnade with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and young singers from the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen .

Selection of further productions

Family concert programs

Awards

Müller's Marionette Theater was awarded the Enno and Christa Springmann Foundation Prize in 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen Wigler: 'Il Guarany' is a dramatic directing debut for Domingo, theater review in The Baltimore Sun , November 12, 1996
  2. ↑ Review ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on opernnetz.de, accessed on September 9, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.opernnetz.de
  3. ↑ List of the award winners on the foundation's website

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