Rolf Mäser

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Rolf Mäser (born November 19, 1925 , † May 18, 2007 in Klipphausen ) was a German fighter pilot, theater scholar, museum director, puppeteer and presenter.

Life

After attending school in Spittewitz , he completed an apprenticeship as a technical draftsman at the Turbowerke in Meißen . In 1943 he joined the Wehrmacht and became a fighter pilot . As such, he was first taken into American and then Soviet captivity, from which he was released in November 1948.

From 1949 Rolf Mäser was a new teacher at the primary school in Spittewitz. During this time he began to play puppets. In 1960 he took over the management of the puppet theater collection of the Folklore Museum in Dresden , which later passed to the Dresden State Art Collections . The domicile of the collection was in the Hohenhaus in Radebeul . From 1972 to 1976 he studied drama by distance learning. At the Pedagogical University of Dresden he received his doctorate in 1980 with the dissertation Puppet Show by Dr. Fist . In 1991 he retired.

Rolf Mäser was a member of the executive committee of Unima and the international association of puppet and marionette theaters. For over 30 years he published the communications of the Dresden Puppet Theater Collection. In 1977 he published the monograph Old Saxon Marionettes and the catalog Puppet Theater yesterday and today . He was also the honorary nature conservation officer of the Meißen district, chairman of the Friends of Nature and Homeland in the GDR's cultural association in the Meißen district and the local chronicle of Polenz.

As hunters, he hosted from 1969 to 1991 in Dresden Palace of Culture , the event series on, happy hunting . He was accompanied by the mountain finch choir , various hunting horn groups and several soloists.

Rolf Mäser died after a long illness at the age of 82 in the Polenz district of the Klipphausen community in the Meißen district .

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  1. ↑ Manfred Bachmann : Patron of the puppeteer Dr. Rolf Mäser on his 70th birthday . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 41, 1995, No. 6, p. 389.
personal data
SURNAME Mäser, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fighter pilot, theater scholar, museum director, puppeteer and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1925
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 2007
Place of death Clip houses