Meininger Puppet Theater

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The Meininger Puppet Theater is a puppet theater and a division of the Meininger Theater . The puppet stage has its home in the Neue Kammerspiele in Meiningen .

Neue Kammerspiele - home of the Meininger Puppet Theater

The Meininger Puppet Theater was founded in the summer of 1986 at the Meininger Theater. The first director was Rolf Thieme. The first premiere took place on October 2, 1986 in the Meiningen Volkshaus with Goethe's Faust . Other productions in the early days were "Sleeping Beauty" and "Pinocchio". In 1987 Maria C. Zoppeck took over the puppet theater as director, which at the time consisted of 16 members. In addition to the performances at various venues in the theater town of Meiningen, numerous tours led through the then district of Suhl ( GDR ). After the political change , the Meiningen puppet theater made its first tours throughout Germany and other European countries.

Today the predominantly independent, internationally operating puppet theater consists of a tribe of six puppeteers and technicians under the direction of Maria C. Zoppeck, plus more than a dozen guest players and directors (as of 2011). The repertoire includes pieces for all ages, written by contemporary authors or from the world of fairy tales and legends. The best-known and most successful pieces shown worldwide include and were "Fastnachtspiele" by Hans Sachs , The steadfast tin soldier and the condom of horror . The puppet theater ensemble appears at around 150 performances annually, a third of them in the Neue Kammerspiele , the new home of the puppet theater since 2008. The other performances take place on tours to individual guest performances and puppet theater festivals on four continents. So far, guest tours have led to Japan, China, Korea, Australia, Canada, the USA and European countries. Puppet shows are also performed in English and French. There are also occasional co-productions with the Meininger Theater ensemble (including “Pippi Longstocking”).

In 2011 the Meininger Puppet Theater celebrated its 25th anniversary.

Productions (selection)

Current pieces
  • Cinderella
  • The lighter (since 2010)
  • The fairy tale of lost time
  • The steadfast tin soldier (since 2001)
  • Carnival Games (since 1995)
  • Krabat (since 2010)
  • Max and Moritz
  • Prince Peter and the Teddy Bear (premiere 2011)
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Till Eulenspiegel
  • The Little Mermaid (from 2012)
  • The decameron (from 2012)
Former pieces
  • The Christmas fairy tale
  • Treasure Island
  • Condom of horror (from 1995)
  • Nathan the wise
  • Little Red Riding Hood
  • Rumpelstiltskin (from 1992)

literature

  • Alfred Erck / The Meininger Theater: History of the Meininger Theater. Resch-Druck, Meiningen 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e website of the Meininger Theater.
  2. ↑ a b daily newspaper FW Meininger Tageblatt, published on September 30, 2011.
  3. ^ Websites of the Meininger Theater and the Association of German Puppet Theaters

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 21 ″  N , 10 ° 24 ′ 57 ″  E