Ursula Bleisch-Imhof

Ursula Bleisch-Imhof (born Imhof ; born December 2, 1942 in Bern ) is a Swiss puppeteer and theater director. Together with her husband Hanspeter Bleisch , she directs the Bleisch Puppet Theater .

Life

Ursula Imhof attended the teachers' seminar in Bern and the Zurich School of Applied Arts and took private acting lessons. She taught at the Swiss school in Lima and worked at the teachers' seminar in Wohlen. In 1975 she met Hanspeter Bleisch and from 1976 worked in his puppet theater. In 1978 she married him. She worked on pieces from the repertoire, the first piece was in 1977 together with Jürg Hebeisen Bahnhof Requiem . In 1996 the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur showed its performance in figure and stage construction in a retrospective.

Publications

• Puppet theater, theater puppets. This is how dolls are built, how dolls are played, how dolls can play that . (with Hanspeter Bleisch and Werner Hürlimann). Orell Füssli, Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-280-01245-7 .
• We play theater with puppets. Building and play ideas for big and small . Meyer, Zurich (1988?)
• Puppet theater, theater puppets. A work and performance book (with Hanspeter Bleisch; photos: Jiří Vurma). AT-Verlag, Aarau 1991, ISBN 3-85502-406-5 .

literature

• Elke Krafka: Ursula Bleisch-Imhof . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 218.