Werner Knoedgen

Werner Knoedgen (* 1947 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German puppeteer .

life and career

From 1958 to 1967 Knoedgen attended an old-language grammar school. From 1967 to 1973 he studied German literature, philosophy, art history, speaking and singing in Frankfurt am Main and Freiburg im Breisgau .
In 1973 Knoedgen began his career as a puppet player. From 1980 he also directed puppet theater pieces. In 1983 he co-founded the puppet theater course at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart and has been its director since 1987.
From 1988 to 2019 Knoedgen played and spoke the role of the raven Rudi in the television series Siebenstein . He also played this role in the television series Frech wie Rudi und Hallo, hier ist Rudi (1995–1999) and Siebenstein Mini (2011) as well as in the short film Rudis Reise (2014).
Since 1990 Knoedgen has held a professorship for puppet theater at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences. In the same year he published the book The Impossible Theater - On the Phenomenology of Puppet Theater . From 1992 to 1996 he was a member of the theater advisory board at the Goethe Institute in Munich .
Knoedgen has also directed several plays, including Doctor Faust , Alice in Wonderland and The Little Prince .

Web links

• Werner Knoedgen in the Internet Movie Database (English)