Puppet theater Magdeburg
The Puppet Theater of the City of Magdeburg is a municipal puppet theater with its own permanent ensemble in the Magdeburg district of Buckau .
It is located at Warschauer Straße 25 .
history
Based on the example of the Soviet stick puppet theater, ensemble theaters for puppet theater were created in the district towns of the GDR from 1951, including 1958 in Magdeburg. The puppeteers Jutta Balk and Gustel Möller played a decisive role in establishing a standing theater. Möller became the first director of the municipal puppet theater. The first performance was played by the then four-member ensemble on September 1, 1958 at the opening. The hand puppet production Puss in Boots was the first premiere.
With a permanent own house and the extensive personnel and organizational structure of an - albeit relatively small - theater company, it became possible to concentrate on the artistic work better than in earlier times and to adapt to the requirements of the respective time and at the same time through the appropriate division of labor to be artistically successful. The theater building was the first functional building specially built for a puppet theater.
In the 1960s, a subscription system, the discounted theater entitlement, was developed for school classes and kindergarten groups. To this day, the vast majority of Magdeburg children go to the puppet theater in their elementary phase.
With the ascension of Tony Gallows 1966 was first staged and adults. An evening schedule was slowly established, which was to establish itself with the production of The Little Prince as a co-production with the stages of the city of Magdeburg. The open-air theater in the courtyard, which is still very popular with the public today, began in 1977 with the premiere of the first Buckau court spectacle Beer and Puppets .
The first expansion of the house was made in 1968. Until then, there had only been an auditorium without a cloakroom, magazine, warehouse or sanitary facilities. Administration, cloakroom, cash register and visitor toilets were housed in the extension. A second major expansion followed in 1999 when the theater received a rehearsal stage and a magazine for puppets.
After German reunification, as in other East German cities, the status of the puppet theater was up for discussion. Considerations were given as to whether the independent theater should not be incorporated into the municipal theaters as a division or whether it should be closed completely. However, there was broad support for the theater among the Magdeburg population, so that it was ultimately not touched.
The puppet theater has been organizing the KinderKulturTage for the state capital since 2007. They stood under the mottos Wander, Wonder, Grow (2007), Hand in Hand (2008), Stamm * Platz * Elbe (2010). In five days, the cultural workers in Magdeburg offer a multi-layered program of children's culture for families or children's groups throughout the city.
Today the Magdeburg Puppet Theater is one of the last independent city theaters with a focus on puppet theater in Germany. With the expanded parts, as well as the stage and hall renovation in 2003, it is one of the largest puppet theaters in Germany. The fully barrier-free theater has two stages in the building, and there is also a summer theater stage in the courtyard. The repertoire of the house constantly includes around 20 different productions, which are aimed at children and young people as well as adults. In addition to adaptations from picture books, adventure stories and fairy tales, works of contemporary drama and world literature are also performed.
In 2012 the puppet theater was awarded the title of Honorary Ambassador of the State Capital Magdeburg by the Magdeburg City Council .
Directors
| 1958-1988 | Gustel Möller |
| 1978-1983 | Dieter Peust |
| 1984-1990 | Elke Schneider |
| since 1990 | Michael Kempchen |
Festivals
As early as in GDR times, for the first time in 1963, Magdeburg was the venue for puppet theater festivals, which until the fall of the Berlin Wall were largely supported by the Ministry of Culture .
The first international puppet theater festival Blickwechsel took place for the first time in 1991 and was sometimes held biennially . In addition to the artistic quality, the festival productions are determined by a contextual framework. So the motto of the 2009 festival was world improvers . The festivals have been opened since 2003 or resolved with the production of La Notte , in which urban locations such as the Klosterbergegarten or the Buckauer bottleneck, most recently in 2009 the Rothensee ship lift , are played with a large number of artists. More than 30 international theaters take part in the festival.
With the organization of the UNIMA World Congress and the World Puppet Theater Festival in 2000, the whole city was transformed into a stage for the first time. With the following 60 events at nine performance locations spread across the city during the festival period, Magdeburg became the center of international puppetry.
Puppet theater center
On November 24, 2012, a neighboring historic villa, the so-called villa p. , opened a puppet game collection. During the ceremony, the Mayor of Magdeburg Lutz Trümper and the Saxony-Anhalt Minister of Education, Stephan Dorgerloh, gave greetings.
In this puppet theater center, which was created with an investment of 1.9 million euros, a permanent exhibition is presented on the history of puppetry in Saxony-Anhalt and in Central Germany, from ancient times to current developments. In 19 rooms, some of which have been lavishly designed, more than 1000 theater puppets are shown on 600 m². There are also changing special exhibitions. The collection, which is aimed at both children and adults, places great value on interactive areas. In addition, there are museum educational tours as well as art and theater educational offers.
The villa p. is from the puppet theater through the theater cafe café p. to be reached via a corridor.
In addition, the core tasks of the center are, on the one hand, research into puppet theater and, on the other hand, training and further education, especially in the field of puppet making.
literature
- State capital Magdeburg [Ed.]: IBA. Puppet theater. Magdeburg 2010
- Hans-Jochen Menzel [text] / Bärbel Haage [illustrations]: I'm not funny. Diary fragments of a Kaspers. Berlin 2008
- Johannes Richter: With the utmost approval. On the history and development of puppet theater in the city of Magdeburg and its wider area. Oschersleben 1999
Web links
- Puppet theater Magdeburg
- Children's Culture Days Magdeburg
- FigureSpielSammlung Mitteldeutschland in the villa p.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Welcome , brochure of the Puppentheater Magdeburg, September 2012
Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 37.7 ″ N , 11 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E