Theater of Laughter

The Theater des Lachens is a free puppet theater based in Frankfurt (Oder) at Ziegelstraße 31. The theater mainly deals with the genre of puppets and puppet theater and offers a regular program for adults and children. In addition, the theater is represented at numerous puppet theater festivals in Germany and abroad. Since 2006, the Theater des Lachens has organized the Osthafen Festival for Eastern European Puppet Theater every two years .

history

Today's theater emerged from what was then the Frankfurt State Puppet Theater . The first director of the puppet theater in the former EFKA cinema building was Irene Merzdorf (1975). The theater was threatened with closure at the beginning of the 1990s, and it did not seem possible to continue it without the support of the municipality, the state and rent-free use of the venue. In 1992 a group of players and employees took over the gaming facility that had been made available for use by the municipality. They founded the "Small Theater, Puppet and Drama eV". The then artistic director Astrid Griesbach shaped this theater with her unmistakable signature, tragedy and comedy and made it known beyond the city limits with her productions such as “Danton's Death”. Since 1996, the Theater des Lachens has been playing in one of the most beautiful theaters in Brandenburg, the old machine room of the Gerstenberger Höfe at Ziegelstrasse 31.

Directors

- 1975: Irene Merzdorf, 1st director of the State Puppet Theater
- 1980: Gerd Hebecker, director
- 1988: Günther Klingner, director
- 1990: Astrid Griesbach, (artistic director) and Agnes Morgner (management)
- 1991: Mrs. Gromeyer, manager
- 1992: Eckbert Otto, (artistic director), Astrid Griesbach (artistic director)
- 1995: Dorit Herden, (artistic director), Astrid Griesbach (artistic director)
- 1998: Ingrid Panse, (artistic director) Susanne Olbrich, (artistic director)
- 2000: Ingrid Panse, (artistic director), Hermann Naehring and Carmen Winter (artistic directors)
- 2001: Peggy Braun, (managing director)
- since 2006: Torsten Gesser, (theater director / managing director)

East port

The Theater des Lachens has been organizing the festival for Eastern European puppet, drama and object theater Osthafen on the Gerstenberger Höfe grounds since 2006 . With the support of the State of Brandenburg and the City of Frankfurt (Oder), groups and a. from Poland, the Czech Republic, Spain, Russia, Ukraine and Israel are invited. In 2019 the 8th festival took place under the motto Circus of Life .

Awards

2013: Main prize at the Walizka Puppet Theater Festival in Łomża for Kleist - About Puppet Theater or Overcoming Gravity
2014: Main prize at the Walizka puppet theater festival in Lomza for Don Quixote - a dream play based on Telemann
2014: Monica Bleibtreu Prize (audience award) for Don Quijote - a dream play based on Telemann at the 3rd Privattheatertage in Hamburg

literature

Ernst-Frieder Kratochwill "German puppet and mask theater since 1900" ISBN 978-3-86863-089-3

Web links

Website of the Theater des Lachens

Individual evidence

↑ Astrid Griesbach, artistic director at the time, shaped this theater with her unmistakable signature of combining tragedy and comedy and made it known beyond the city limits with her productions such as "Danton's Death". Quoted from own representation Theater des Lachens [1]
↑ http://www.gerstenbergerhoefe.de
↑ https://www.moz.de/landkreise/oder-spree/frankfurt-oder/artikel9/dg/0/1/1754422/
↑ Frankfurt / Oder (eb). The Theater des Lachens won the main prize “Grand Prix” at the 27th International Festival for Puppet and Object Theater “Valise” in Łomża / Poland with its production “Don Quixote - a dream play based on Telemann”. [2]
↑ A gaunt male doll with spider fingers seduced the audience the most. "Don Quijote", subtitled: "A dream play after Telemann", from the Theater des Lachens in Frankfurt an der Oder, which was brought to life by three actors, convinced at this year's private theater days with its surreal story, simple means and wonderful string quartet. In return, the production now deserves the audience award. [3]

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[1] Astrid Griesbach, artistic director at the time, shaped this theater with her unmistakable signature of combining tragedy and comedy and made it known beyond the city limits with her productions such as "Danton's Death". Quoted from own representation Theater des Lachens [1]

[2] ttp://www.gerstenbergerhoefe.de

[3] ttps://www.moz.de/landkreise/oder-spree/frankfurt-oder/artikel9/dg/0/1/1754422/

[4] Frankfurt / Oder (eb). The Theater des Lachens won the main prize “Grand Prix” at the 27th International Festival for Puppet and Object Theater “Valise” in Łomża / Poland with its production “Don Quixote - a dream play based on Telemann”. [2]

[5] A gaunt male doll with spider fingers seduced the audience the most. "Don Quijote", subtitled: "A dream play after Telemann", from the Theater des Lachens in Frankfurt an der Oder, which was brought to life by three actors, convinced at this year's private theater days with its surreal story, simple means and wonderful string quartet. In return, the production now deserves the audience award. [3]