Wolfgang Rudolph (puppeteer)

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Wolfgang Rudolph (* 1945 ) is a German former puppeteer . For several years he directed the puppet theater of the Brandenburg Theater in Brandenburg an der Havel . In the GDR he was an opposition member .

Live and act

Wolfgang Rudolph grew up in the city of Brandenburg an der Havel. There he passed his Abitur . He did not take up a planned study of theology , but worked as a nurse . He began to devote himself to puppetry and appeared at the Brandenburg Theater. Because of his opposition to the GDR, he came into conflict with the State Security, for example . Rudolph was a member of church peace and environmental groups in Brandenburg an der Havel. Along with other personalities, he was co-founder of a peace working group on the occasion of the Protestant Church's Peace Decade in 1982 , which in 1989 became one of the key players in the events of the revolution in Brandenburg. The State Security planned to place Wolfgang Rudolph in an internment camp if necessary . The jacket with which Rudolph publicly demonstrated and displayed his oppositional opinion and attitude in Brandenburg in the 1980s is an exhibit in the Brandenburg City Museum .

After the political change in 1989/90 , Rudolph continued to establish the puppet stage in the Brandenburg Theater. The annual Brandenburg Puppet Theater Days also go back to him. Wolfgang Rudolph performed with his puppets and figures in various guest performances outside of Brandenburg, for example at the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau or at the Theater der Altmark in Stendal .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrea Bahr: Local party rule. The Brandenburg SED district leadership 1961–1989 (= communism and society. Volume 3). Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-893-6 , p. 308, note 856 and p. 322 in the Google book search (based on the dissertation of the same name at the Philosophical Faculty I of the Humboldt University Berlin 2015).
  2. ↑ The turning point - departure 1989/90 in Brandenburg. In: museumsverband-brandenburg.de, accessed on January 17, 2018.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Rudolf. ( Memento from January 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) In: stadtmuseum-brandenburg.de, accessed on January 17, 2018.
  4. ↑ Heiko Hesse: Big game with small figures. In: Märkische Allgemeine . October 13, 2014, accessed January 17, 2018.
  5. ↑ The dream eater. In: Anhaltisches-theater.de, accessed on January 17, 2018.
  6. ↑ The fantastic story "Das Traumfresserchen" / Theater der Altmark. In: urbanite.net, accessed on January 17, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Rudolph, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German puppeteer
DATE OF BIRTH 1945