Villa p.

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The villa p. is a listed Wilhelminian style half-timbered villa in the Magdeburg district of Buckau , which houses the puppet theater collection of the Magdeburg puppet theater . It is located at Porsestrasse 13 in 39104 Magdeburg.

History of the house

Today's villa p. is located on the historic Mühlenberg (Mühlberg since 1902), which takes its name from a mill located here that was first mentioned in a document in 1677. At first the mill belonged to the Berge monastery , in 1775 it went into private ownership. In 1830 the mill burned down. In the course of industrialization, the Magdeburg district of Buckau became an industrial location. In 1859 the later globally successful Magdeburg company "Schaeffer & Budenberg Maschinen- und Dampfkesselarmaturenfabrik" moved to Buckau. The son-in-law of the company's founder, Bernhard Schäffer , the manufacturer Friedrich Wilhelm (Fritz) Dresel, built a rayon house in 1884 on the property next to the former mill as a representative residence - the current villa p.

The building in today's Porsestrasse survived both world wars unscathed and was confiscated after the war ended in 1945 and occupied initially by the US and later by the Soviets. By 1958, different users changed, u. a. the technical school for kindergarten teachers, the trade and supply department, the housing office and the council of the school district south-east of the city of Magdeburg. After that, the Makarenko special school had its headquarters here, and from 1990 to 2010 the municipal employment company AQB. In 2006, Magdeburg's city council decided to set up a puppet play center. In 2010, with an investment volume of 1.9 million euros, the full renovation of the listed villa began, which was also connected to the puppet theater and the newly created café p. was connected. In 2012 it was given to the puppet theater and the public and permanent puppet show opened in November 2012.

Figurines game collection Central Germany

Contents of the exhibition

The puppet play collection presents the history of puppetry in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt and the south-bordering Central German area from antiquity to the present on an area of ​​approx. 600 m² with more than 1000 theater puppets and objects . Influences of world history, religion, politics and science on this popular art form are illustrated as well as the development of the techniques, materials and functions of the puppet show.

Main topics of the exhibition:

Basement
  • Search for clues. From ancient times to the Middle Ages. When, where and why the whole theater started - reconstructions
  • Survival game. Around the 17th century. Thirty Years War, Destruction, Will to Live - Theater of the street and the common people
  • Traveling people. 18th and 19th centuries and more. Hand puppets and marionettes in markets and in inns - mass media of their time
  • Layerl - a dynasty. 19th and 20th centuries. Layerl's puppet theater in Magdeburg and elsewhere.
  • Dance on the volcano. Beginning of the century until 1933. Post-war, pre-war, artistic change, amusement
  • A thousand years of darkness. 1933-1945. Assumption of power, conformity, step in step, disaster.
  • Construction helper. 1945-1958. Rubble women and reconstruction - artists and educators for the puppet theater.
  • Allowed forbidden. 1945-1958. Fight the Kasper. Resign? Go away?
  • Game hall
ground floor
  • A puppet theater for Magdeburg. 1958. A city theater on a large scale.
  • Border lines. The 1960s. Magdeburg is doing itself - professionalization, efforts of the levels
  • Stagnation and momentum. The 1970s. Puppeteers with college degrees, new standards, theater fights
  • Holes in the concrete. The 1980s. Theaters play against an encrusted society.
  • Search and find. The 1990s. Artistic freedom and new economic constraints.
  • Change of look. The 2000s. New content, new forms. The diversity of puppet theater today.
  • Movie room
First floor
  • Gallery with special exhibitions

The collection is geared towards children and adults and places emphasis on interactive areas. In addition, there are museum educational tours as well as art and theater educational offers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Refurbished rayon house from 1884
  2. ↑ Puppet theater opens puppet play collection ( Memento from April 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 36.5 ″  N , 11 ° 37 ′ 56.4 ″  E