Siegfried Boehmke

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Siegfried Böhmke is a German puppeteer .

Live and act

At the age of twelve he played in the Munich marionette theater . In addition, he learned carving and scenic speaking in private lessons, painting and drawing at the adult education center. With Jim Henson in London he completed the training he needed to play two characters in the German version of the television program Die Fraggles .

In the television production Bim Bam Bino he played the jaw- dropping doll Bino and in the Fraggles the characters Uncle Matt and Gobo. He achieved his greatest success on German television with the character of Binos in the children's program "Bim Bam Bino", which was broadcast on private television for over ten years. He developed the snap-mouth doll Gustav Sommer, which appeared on the ZDF holiday program. Since 2000 he has been the artistic director of the Munich Marionette Theater.

From 2002, Böhmke headed the newly established course in puppet theater at the Munich Theater Academy , which was discontinued a year later for financial reasons.

Böhmke was awarded the medal Munich shines in silver from the state capital Munich for his great services to theater culture in Munich .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Böhmke in conversation with Gabi Toepsch. Bayerischer Rundfunk , April 7, 2004, accessed on February 15, 2013 (manuscript for the broadcast alpha-Forum on BR-alpha ).
personal data
SURNAME Böhmke, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German puppeteer, artistic director at the Munich Marionette Theater
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century