Puppet Theater Collection (Dresden)

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Puppet theater collection
Dresden Jägerhof.jpg
The Jägerhof , exhibition building for the puppet theater collection
Data
place Dresden
Art
Collection of theater puppets
opening 1913
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-061723

The Puppentheaterammlung in Dresden is a collection of theater puppets from the 18th , 19th and 20th centuries comprising more than 50,000 individual pieces . This makes it one of the most important and largest collections of its kind in the world.

The puppet theater collection is a largely independent part of the Museum of Saxon Folk Art . Both belong to the Dresden State Art Collections . The exhibition is located in the Jägerhof in the Inner Neustadt , the depot in the garrison church of St. Martin in Albertstadt .

history

The collection has its origins in the holdings of the Leipzig teacher, puppet show histograph and editor of the first German puppet show magazine Otto Link . His collection was one of the oldest private collections of puppets in Germany. He was encouraged to set up his own collection by the Leipzig university professor for medicine and Nestor of the German puppetry research Arthur Kollmann . In 1913 the collection was opened to the public. From 1918 Link and Kollmann worked closely together in building up the collection. Otto Link sifted through and organized Kollmann's holdings and was given access to Kollmann's correspondence with puppeteers all over the world.

After the nationalization of the collection in 1952, it was continued as a state research center at the Museum of Saxon Folk Art. Otto Link gave up his job and from now on headed the puppet theater collection. In the year she migrated from Leipzig to Dresden. Link was very committed to the collection, added other valuable pieces and organized numerous exhibitions in German cities. The Puppet Theater Collection became a member of UNIMA in 1958 . In the same year the first issue of the magazine Mitteilungen der Puppentheaterammlung appeared . This was the only trade journal of its kind in the GDR and was published until 1990. The following year Otto Link, the owner of the collection, died and the theater scholar Rolf Mäser took over the management.

From 1960 to 2004 the collection was managed as an independent department of the State Museum for Folk Art in the Hohenhaus in Radebeul . The puppet theater collection has been part of the Dresden State Art Collections since 1968 and has had its own directorate since 1972. In 1974 there was a permanent exhibition on around 200 square meters in the foyer of the State Puppet Theater in Dresden and in 1985 one in the Radebeul Hohenhaus after the renovation work had been completed there.

The then director of the puppet theater collection, Olaf Bernstengel , showed parts of his collection to the public as part of the Radebeul Kasperiade, which was held for the first time in 1987 . After the first event on Hauptstrasse in Radebeul-Ost , the Kasperiade was moved to the Hohenhaus itself and the associated courtyard and park, where it continued until 2002 after the fall of the Wall. After the puppet theater collection moved from the Hohenhaus in 2004 , the Kasperiade was moved to Anger Altkötzschenbroda , where the puppet theater festival continued to take place annually until 2012. Since 2013, the festival venue has been the Radebeul cultural station in the east of the city.

The Hamburg folklorist Lars Rebehn has been the curator of the puppet theater collection since 1997.

Stocks

The holdings have their origins in important collections by Arthur Kollmann, Alfred Lehmann and Carl Teumer from Leipzig and Fritz Müller from Obercrinitz . The collectibles come from Germany , numerous European countries and Asia .

The most valuable exhibits in the collection include extensive stocks of figures and scenery from several mechanical world theaters of the 19th century ( Theatrum mundi ). In their quality and diversity, they are unique in Europe.

Important artists such as Carl Schröder , Otto Griebel or Reinhold Langner and the set designers and directors Achim Freyer and Andreas Reinhardt are also represented in the collection with important pieces of equipment for puppet theater.

The collection consists of marionettes , hand puppets and figures from the past three hundred years. The museum also has a large collection of theater picture sheets , exhibits on puppet and figure play by numerous peoples, stage decorations, props, designs, posters, theater bills, paintings, graphics, miniatures, sculptures and much more. The exhibition also includes a library for puppetry around the world and a large collection of puppetry texts.

See also

Web links

Commons : Museum of Saxon Folk Art  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. volkskunst.skd.museum
  2. Radebeuler Kasperiade in Altkötzschenbroda

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 28.1 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 37.9 ″  E