Pirna puppet shows

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The Pirna Puppet Theater was a professional puppet theater that operated as a travel puppet theater from Pirna in Saxony in the first half of the 1950s .

History and work

"Die Pirnaer", as the theater was briefly called, consisted of the stage director Wolfgang Hensel and his teammates Fred Schencke and Heinz Fülfe . Fülfe also worked as a set designer. The Pirnaers played for children as well as an adult audience, and in the design of their figures they deliberately leaned on the style of the then world-famous Hohnstein puppet shows by working exclusively with hand puppets by the Hohnstein puppet carver Theo Eggink . In contrast to the Hohnsteiners, who mostly only designed their stages with colored fabrics, the Pirnaers played with elaborate sets.

With the play The Treasure in the Magic Cave , the Pirnaers could also be seen on GDR television (year unknown).

The Pirnaer's time as a professional doll stage came to an end as early as the mid-1950s. Wolfgang Hensel moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957 , played there for three more years as "Pirna Puppeteer" (together with Paul Hölzig , who had also left the GDR), but then only worked outside the world of puppetry; Heinz Fülfe concentrated on the television puppet show. Only Friedrichträger , who had been a part of the Pirnaern as a player, continued the work of the theater for a while as an amateur player; Because of the increasing nodding by the GDR government, a full-time activity as a puppeteer was no longer an option for him.

In the short period of their existence, the Pirnaer were among the most popular puppet theaters in East Germany and the most important pioneers of artistic hand puppet shows after the Second World War .

Productions

Pieces for adults

Pieces for children (selection)

  • The flying suitcase
  • The trip to the moon
  • Kasperle travels the world
  • The golden devil
  • Kasperle and the good old moon

literature

  • Pirna artist puppet shows , booklet with numerous photos for self-portrayal of the theater, Pirna o. J.
  • KASPERS WAY FROM EAST TO WEST. Memories of the Pirna puppet shows by Wolfgang Hensel, Röll-Verlag Dettelbach

swell

  • Literature in the State Puppet Theater Collection, Dresden
  • Figures of the Pirnaer in the puppet show collection of the city of Munich and in the collection of the Piccolo puppet shows