Marionette Theater at Schönbrunn Palace
The Marionette Theater at Schönbrunn Palace is a puppet theater founded in 1994 . It is located in the Hofrat tract of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna's 13th district of Hietzing and hosts theater performances and operas for adults and children. The puppet theater is run as a private theater. The two founders and artistic directors, Christine Hierzer-Riedler and Werner Hierzer, can look back on over 40 years of international experience in the art of marionette play.
Venues and productions
The Schönbrunn Palace Marionette Theater is located in the Hofrat tract of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, where around 400 performances are played all year round for around 22,000 visitors. Around 60 percent of these are foreign guests. There are also performances during the worldwide guest tours such as B. Athens, Amman, Dubai, Darmstadt, Gdansk, Dhahran, Daegu, Graz, Innsbruck, Hong Kong, Klagenfurt, Naples, Nicosia, Beijing, Rome, Seoul, Shanghai, Stratford (Canada), Tehran, Tenerife.
The productions of the Marionette Theater at Schönbrunn Palace , which are created in cooperation with stage and costume designers, sculptors, authors, composers and directors, differ in relation to the “human stage” only in their smaller scale. Playing with marionettes has a long tradition in Schönbrunn. During Mozart's lifetime, the puppet theater founded by Prince Esterházy played here at the invitation of Empress Maria Theresa and received the greatest applause. It is precisely the representation of a reduced world on stage that makes this art form so special. Human figures as well as objects are brought to life by a master hand and provide food for the imagination. The Marionette Theater at Schönbrunn Palace cultivates this art form using the most modern stage technology. This traditional playing technique was brought from Salzburg to Vienna 25 years ago and since then has also been passed on here in the Schönbrunn Palace Marionette Theater and is constantly being further developed and refined.
Many productions have been created since the Schönbrunn Palace Marionette Theater was founded in 1994. Currently (as of spring 2020) the program includes: Mozart's opera “The Magic Flute” and the musical “Sisi's Secret”. Operas and operettas prepared for children, “Die Kinderzauberflöte”, “Die Entführung aus dem Serail”, “Die Kinderfledermaus”, “Hänsel & Gretel” as well as the fairy tales “Ritter Kamenbert”, “Aladdin and the Magic Lamp” and “Lena is looking for the Christian child ". For special events “A little night music” as a ballet and “Mozart in Schönbrunn”.
Awards
- 1st prize at the 32nd International Puppet Theater Festival - PIF in Zagreb, 1999
- 1st prize at the World Festival of Puppet Art in Prague
- 1st prize at the 9th International Puppet Festival in Tehran
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 32nd PIF 1999 Prizes. (PDF) 1999, accessed on February 13, 2016 (Croatian, English).
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 5.6 " N , 16 ° 18 ′ 53.7" E