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3/05/2010 PannOpticum 17.-20.06.10
International Puppet Theater Festival Neusiedl am See Haus im Puls The 4th edition of the International Puppet Theatre Festival will take place between the 17th of June and the 20th of June 2010.
Karin Schäfer is director of the International Festival of Visual Theatre "PannOpticum" in Neusiedl am See, Austria.
" ...Crossing frontiers at the interfaces of theatre music, visual arts, performance and dance ..."
...Extraordinary, memorable and impressive theatre experience ...
...From Austria, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, New Zealand, Russia, Spain and Argentina...
...For adults, teenagers, children and families ...
...Ideal for an early summer trip to the Burgenland, the most beautiful season on the lake ...
...To the combination of landscape, culinary and culture ...
Four days of international theatrical art - humorous, entertaining and fascinating ...
...Live in Neusiedl am See ...
Karin Schäfer
Karin Schäfer studied visual theatre at the Instituto del Teatro in Barcelona with the legendary old master Harry V. Tozer.
She founded her first company in Spain and worked at different theatres and together with well-known puppet masters.
In 1993 she moved back to Austria and founded a new company. Today she ranks herself among the few masters of this genre.
The "Karin Schäfer Figuren Theater", while basing its work on the classical techniques of puppetry, has always transcended artistic disciplines with its integration of visual arts, music, dance and the new media. It was from these sources that Karin Schäfer developed her own special art form of "Visual Theatre" over the last few years.
All the productions the theatre has developed to date are available for tour performances at home and abroad.
Up to now, Karin Schäfer and her company have been invited to guest performances and festivals in more than 30 countries on four continents.
Among many different distinctions for her work, she won the 1st Prize at the International Festival Solo Puppeteers and was awarded with the "Premio Villa nuevo" for the best foreign performance of the year in Cuba.
Currently, she is working on a new visual theatre production about Zheng He, the famous Chinese explorer of the 15th Century.
Please contact:
Peter Hauptmann
PannOpticum
Josef Haydngasse 25
7100 Neusiedl/See
Tel.: 02167/3384
info@figurentheater.at
http://www.figurentheater.at
Best regards
Ulrike Sümegi
Secretary UNIMA
Center Austria
23/01/2010 The Wels International Puppet Theatre Festival Puppets from across the globe make public appearance in Wels from
11 March to 17 March
2010.
The Wels International Puppet Theatre Festival raises its curtains for its 19th edition.
Puppets from many countries will bring people from all age groups together in theatres.
This year’s festival, organized under the artistic management of Gerti Tröbinger, features shows from Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Switzerland, Slovenia and Italy.
The venues for the performances include “Stadttheater Wels”; “Alter Schl8hof Wels”; “Lebensspuren.museum Werkraumtheater ‘Im Kornspeicher’“; "NÖFA, Ja Jugend-Kreativzentrum MKH Medien Kultur Haus“.
The festival will open with a performance by Germany’s Matthias Kuchta, presenting the play “Marzooq the pitchbird” at the “Stadttheater Wels”.
Dresden figure theatre, Lille Kartofler, PIKI Theatre, Theatre Big Bang, Roof theatre, Margrit Gysin are some of the foreign troupes that will perform at the festival.
Please contact:
http://www.figurentheater-wels.at
Best regards,
Ulrike Sümegi
Secretary UNIMA Center Austria
26/10/2009
Wo? Wenn nicht alle da ! / That’s the Way to do it !
Welcome to
That’s the way to do it !
A proper Punch & Judy show
Information, Tickets, Bookings, Hotel reservations:
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Tel: +43 (0) 732 / 7070-2009
http://www.linz.at/tourismus
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You can pick up your tickets at the venue box office on the evening of the performance.
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This festival is dedicated to a genuine European.
He appears in every country and possesses an ability to assume regional characteristics so that everyone says “he’s one of us” even though he’s a much-travelled vagabond with roots all over Europe and beyond.
His name is:
Kasperl (AT), Kasper (DE), Mr. Punch (UK), Pulcinella (IT), Vitéz László (HU), Guignol (FR), Don Cristobal (ES) etc.
This fist-wielding theatre maniac has a tradition going back centuries, however, because long traditions have the habit of becoming worthy, formal and awkward, Linz09 had a clever idea: four groups were commissioned to create a Kasperl play especially for the Capital of Culture, rather like testing an old club to see if it’s any good, whether it will still deliver a satisfactory beating or whether it’s too rotten now.
Our testers in the order of their appearance in the festival are:
maschek (AT)
Guyla Molnàr (HU, IT)
Hans Jochen Menzel (DE)
Neville Tranter (AU, NL)
These four productions can be called the heart of the festival. We’ve supplemented them with a fine selection of pieces which together encompass the fascinating tradition of the genre and integrate it into their own cheeky, poetic, questioning contemporary performance styles.
We asked all the participants in the festival one question: “Laughter and violence are both definite ingredients of Punch, presumably added by the devil himself. How, where and why do they go together?” Their answers, which can be found in the speech bubbles accompanying the descriptions of each piece demonstrate hoe individual and how different the approaches of all these performers are.
Enjoy.
Christoph Bochdansky
Artistic Director
WHAT : Punch and Judy
Festival
WHEN : 11 – 21 November 09
WHERE : Hafenhalle 09
CONCEPT / ARTISTIC DIRECTOR : Christoph Bochdansky
maschek (AT): 09.09.09
Television manipulates the world, maschek manipulate television.
Therefore maschek manipulate the world. At least for a day.
09/09/09, the ninth of September 2009, provides the starting point for this media Kasperl theatre. On this day maschek recorded 100 hours of material from news channels which they use as the basis of their performance. What if it’s not a disturbed priest but Hugo Chavez who hijacks a plane in Mexico? What if Frank Stronach thinks he’s buying OPEC rather than OPEL? If the pictures of the opening ceremony for the Dubai subway system show a terrorist attack rather than a public festival? What if the staging of a Michael Jackson Tribute Concert in front of Schönbrunn Castle turns out to be a giant fraud ?
maschek’s many voices are the Kasperls of the evening. Their Kasperl theatre features characters from public life in two senses. While they are doing voiceovers for them, maschek are also talking about them.
Kasperl is hiding behind the many masks he provides voices for.
maschek are Peter Hörmanseder, Ulrich Salamun and Robert Stachel.
They have worked with media content for over ten years they collect, observe, reverse, sample, adapt and comment on these images, while analysing, re-editing and dubbing them. They take the shells of characters and make fun of them by assuming control of their own mediated effects.
WHEN : 11 and 12 November 2009
WHERE : Hafenhalle 09
Thomas Ettl (AT): THE PUNCH MACHINE
THE PUNCH MACHINE: How come the characters which television or the newspapers bring into our homes increasingly remind us of grotesques like Hanswurst, Bernardon or Punch ? Why do the politics of state so often resemble a tiny Punch and Judy show ? Why even though the personnel changes on a regular basis do we keep seeing the same old wooden heads ? The answer is shockingly simple: Because it is a Punch and Judy show. It really is ! All these spongers, jobsworths and supposed men of the people acting out their lives in front of us are just made up characters.
Punch and company put on masks and offer us little minidramas. Because sometimes people need a bit of pleasure so they don’t die of crying in this sad world where misery and deprivation come and go as they please. But don’t worry, it’s just theatre and that means there’s a happy ending somehow...
Regie & Spiel : Thomas Ettl
WHEN : 12 November 2009
WHERE : Hafenhalle 09 Studio
CHRISTOPH BOCHDANSKY (AT): KASPERL, DU DEPP !
PUNCH, YOU IDIOT! AMAZING!!!! The central characters of the play are raised up before the audience’s eyes from their primitive state as blocks of wood into living Punch & Judy figures a mystical transformation.
INCREDIBLE!!! Secrets of puppet theatre are revealed. Punch & Judy theatre is assigned its mystical purpose, the eternal conflict between good and evil. EVERYTHING IS JUST AS IT SHOULD BE!!! If only that idiot Punch didn’t go and make a pact with the Devil. Now Punch has to send every soul he happens to meet to hell. How can everything in the world end well now? Don’t worry, it’ll be alright or don’t you believe me ?
Christoph Bochdansky studied stage design at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and graduated from the Puppet Theatre College in Bochum before he started toring international festivals with his own plays.
Regie, Puppen & Spiel : Christoph Bochdansky
WHEN : 13 November, 9.30pm
WHERE : Hafenhalle 09 Studio
Gianluca di Matteo (IT): 85, LE ANIME DEL PURGATORIO
In the Neapolitan Cabala, number 85 stands for the souls in Purgatory.
These anime pezzentelle (poor souls), these spirits in pain that haunt the city’s underground are the object of an ancient devotion. And they form the starting point of an evocative trip, full of mystery and irony, which leads the spectator along a deep reflection on the life and death cycle. Transported to Naples during the plague of 1656, we discover one of Pulcinella’s countless secrets.
Gianluca di Matteo, Neapolitan puppet and shadow puppet master, uses an innovative theatrical vocabulary made up of strong visual elements to create his dream-like works.
Regie & Spiel : Gianluca di Matteo
WHEN : 13 November 2009
Christoph Bochdansky (AT): PUNCH – THIS MAN IS A FAKE
PUNCH – THIS MAN IS A FAKE: A play about a genuine identity crisis of Christoph Bochdansky, who believes that he is Punch.
Christoph Bochdansky claims to be Punch. People demand proof. But how can Punch prove who he is? Does wishing to be Punch make you Punch or aren’t wishes part of someone’s identity? They aren’t? Identity isn’t based on desires?
Why so many questions, why isn’t everything clear immediately? These questions all seem like eyes, questioning eyes, that are watching us and won’t leave us alone. Questioning eyes that send us from one question to another. But then all we do is run round in circles...
Regie: Christoph Werner
Music: Hannes Löschel
Play: Christoph Bochdansky
WHEN: 14. Nov 09
WHERE : Hafenhalle 09 Studio, 21.00Uhr
Gyula Molnàr (HU/IT): KASPERL’S ROOTS
Kasperl’s ROOTS: Kasperl‘s grandmother has died. Kasperl is inconsolable, loses his appetite and wants to die too. He travels to the underworld to bring his grandmother back so that she can bake him cakes again but death bars his way at the entrance to Hades. No one may enter alive. They fight, Kasperl finally dies and is allowed in. In the kingdom of the dead he finds his grandmother but she has no wish to return to the stove. Kasperl hits her over the head with a log, throws her over his shoulder and sets off.
Kasperl does not know that the way back is dangerous: you must never look back, otherwise you will be frozen into a pillar of salt, or stone, or marble, or... something very, very hard.
Of course Kasperl turns round, freezes, grows roots and turns into a tree stump. His grandmother wakes up, sees his misfortune and sheds bitter tears. But Death consoles her.
Gyula Molnàr, a middle-sized middle-European, was born in 1950 in Budapest and has lived from in and with the theatre since 1976 as an author, performer, director and occasional designer and graphic artist.
WHEN : 14 and 15 Nov 09
WHERE : Hafenhalle 09, 9.30 pm
Gianluca di Matteo (IT): LE GUARATELLE DI PULCINELLA
The main puppet characters of LE Guaratelle DI Pulcinella are Pulcinella and classic figures from the theatre and popular culture, who create amusing, ironic and sometimes irreverent situations.
They are always cathartic and characterised by a captivating rhythm, managing to portray the wit of the Neapolitan culture at its best, and at the same time, to recall archaic collective notions and rituals, describing humanity as a whole.
WHEN : 15 Nov 09
WHERE : Hafenhalle 09 Studio, 10.30 am (Matinee)
TRISTAN VOGT (DE): MACBETH FOR BEGINNERS
The puppeteer, overcome with ambition, plans a production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. When his old Punch and Judy puppets learn that there are no parts for them, they start a rebellion: behind the puppeteer’s back the company begins performing the tragedy on their own. Soon however, these innocent “beginners” find themselves under the fateful spell of Shakespeare’s stagecraft. Macbeth’s destiny will be mercilessly fulfilled in their own lives...
The internationally celebrated work of Tristan Vogt and Thalias Kompagnons combine the worlds of dramatic, puppet and music theatre.
Their irreverent but moving versions of operas and classic plays have been equally successful in fringe venues, festivals and state theatres.
WHEN : 15 Nov 09, 9.00pm and 16 Nov 09, 7.30pm
Christoph Bochdansky (AT): I JUST ATE A WOMAN
I JUST ATE A WOMAN: A Punch & Judy play about a man according to a woman played by a crocodile. Can all the questions about relationships between men and women be answered in a Punch & Judy play? Other people will ask why, when this relationship is a Punch & Judy play anyway. But they can be quiet ! Because appearing on stage are: a flesh-hungry crocodile, who likes eating women, Punch, who wants a wife, and this he really wants, and the Devil who’s most upset at no longer being “the glory of heaven” and is looking for consolation with a giantess. She is big enough for Punch and he tries to steal her away from the Devil.
Meanwhile Punch’s cock and the Devil’s heart lead talkative and independent lives. Honestly, it’s enough to take your breath away...
WHEN : 16.Nov 09, 9pm
WHERE : Hafenhalle 09 Studio
Lutz Großmann (DE): PUNCH DEAD – THE END OF HUMOUR ?
PUNCH DEAD – THE END OF HUMOUR? A hand puppet play on the border between life and death.
Tritratrallala - Is everybody there? That’s how good old Punch & Judy plays used to begin in the good old days. That was then, because dark forces have combined to form a terrible power with only one aim: no more Tritratrallala. They have chosen a good time, because Punch is in a bad mood and plagued with doubt. A vicious knot of intrigue has been woven, which Punch can only escape if he can harness his original powers and break the curse of the pre-written text. Because when death is writing the script, then life becomes difficult...
Lutz Großmann, a trained musician and puppeteer, works as a puppet maker and solo performer at a number of theatres, drama schools and with various companies.
WHEN : 17 and 18 Nov 09
HANS-JOCHEN MENZEL (DE): WOMEN’S PUNCH
WOMEN’S PUNCH: Once there was a militant Punch all very well. But Mr. Stenzel, who always performed him and the other puppets all by himself, forgot himself so much in his role as a lecherous, drunken bighead, full of bad jokes and specious chauvinism, that he sank into it like a swamp. And his Punch stories for the dear children which started off perfectly normal became harsher and harsher, though still relatively harmless. Despite or maybe because of this his stories remained very popular.
So he and the ladies at his call, Mrs. Stenzel and the trainee Jeanette, continue to travel around until one fine day in the middle of a play right in front of the children’s eyes an electric shock unexpectedly sends the master into a deep coma. For the sakes of the watching children Mrs Stenzel tries together with the trainee to take matters in hand and finish off Punch’s story. However, the unconscious Mr. Stenzel is still holding Punch, whom he was performing, in an iron grip! Things become difficult.
The puppets make themselves independent. And still the master does not wake up. Then something terrible happens: the soul of Punch rises out of Stenzel’s inert flesh and demands fulfilment. Does this mean Mr. Stenzel is dead? Everything gets tangled up inextricably in itself and no-one ever suspected just how terrible a soul like this can be. But the trainee and Mrs Stenzel know this: Punch cannot and must not die and his soul must never fall victim to the devil even if the sun turns into a red dwarf.
Will these women become heroines, rescuing life and bringing order to chaos or will they lose everything ?
Hans-Jochen Menzel, a life-long puppetry student and enthusiast, created his own plays for theatres and for the drama school where he teaches. His work has been awarded numerous national and international prizes.
WHEN : 17 and 18 Nov 09
WHERE : Hafenhalle 09, 7.30pm
Pelele Marionettes (ES): LA MUERTE DE DON CRISTOBAL (THE DEATH OF DON CRISTOBAL)
THE DEATH OF DON CRISTOBAL: Miserly, ugly, vicious and unscrupulous, Don Cristobal lives only to increase his already generous fortune. However, he has a servant, an old woman, whose heart is even darker than his own. She focuses all the means at her disposal on killing him, crushing him, in order to lay her hands on his wealth. A familiar story which has been seen and heard many times before, brilliantly told in the Mediterranean glove puppet tradition.
THE DEATH OF DON CRISTOBAL is a universal story of the lust for life.
The humour, strength and wit of the performance of Paz Tatay and musician Alice Behague have thrilled audiences on tour all around the world.
WHEN : 19 Nov 09, 7.30 pm, and 21 Nov, 9.00pm
WHERE : Hafenhalle 09 Studio
CIE. LA PENDUE (FR): POLI DÉGAINE
poli dégaine: Two puppeteers have a particularly effective weapon of hilarity at their disposal: they draw Polichinelle, the most famous puppet in the world and, with unbridled enthusiasm, get ready to perform a show whose exceptional qualities they proclaim.
However, just as planned, nothing goes just as planned. Welcome to the hilarious frenzy of a new version of Polichinelle whose wild outbursts provoke an explosive rhythm of roaring laughter from children and adults alike. Because Polichinelle laughs at everything. Death included. La Pendue, active in both traditional and experimental forms of puppetry, defend puppet theatre as a universal human symbol, presenting dark sides and alter egos in a playful way in order to reach into the inner self.
WHEN : 19 and 20 Nov 09
WHERE : Hafenhalle 09 Studio, 9.00pm
Neville Tranter (NL): PUNCH & JUDY IN AFGHANISTAN
When East meets West, who will be laughing in the End ?
Two Westerners in Afghanistan: Brian and his best friend, Emil. Emil hires a camel for a bit of sightseeing. The camel runs away in the direction of Tora Bora, taking Emil with him on his back. Brian decides to go looking for his friend. On his journey Brian meets all the classical Punch and Judy figures. Finally he meets Mr. Punch (with his long beard and turban) and his wife Judy. Then he finds out what has happened to Emil. Certainly no happy ending.
A farce and a satire about being too naive.
Theatre wizard Neville Tranter founded Stuffed Puppet Theatre in 1976 and left his native Australia for the Netherlands in 1978. His virtuoso puppet theatre has been celebrated around the world for its unique formal vocabulary poetic and irreverent, radical and bitterly funny.
In May 2009 Linz’s Posthof showed a retrospective of works by Neville Tranter and his Stuffed Puppet Theatre to mark 10 years of the Black Humour Festival. This is a chance to see his latest creation !
WHEN : 20 and 21 Nov 09
WHERE : Hafenhalle 09, 7.30pm
Rod Burnett (UK): THE PUNCH & JUDY SHOW
Mr: Punch lives with his wife Judy in a theatre called ‘The Punch and Judy Theatre’. Mr. Punch is a crazy puppet, a very bad man and an anarchist who likes to carry a big stick to hit anything or anyone. But he is much too frightened of Judy to hit her with his stick!
A series of puppets come to sort Mr. Punch out: a policeman, a crocodile, death and a hangman but Mr. Punch has an answer for all of them which involves the use of his big stick and a lot of humour.
Lastly the Devil himself comes to take Mr. Punch to hell. Mr. Punch and the devil have to fight a terrible battle.........
One of them wins and as fire and smoke erupts on stage the public cheer for the winner !
WHEN : 20 and 21 Nov 09
WHERE : Hafenhalle 09, 7.30 pm
Best regards,
Ulrike Sümegi
Secretary UNIMA Center Austria
11/10/2009
31. INTERNATIONAL PUPPET FESTIVAL MISTELBACH
“FROM GIANTS, DWARVES, AND OTHER FABULOUS CREATURES”
22 - 26 October 2009
The Mistelbacher puppet theatre days is thus not only an experience for the many, many spectators, but also for the puppet players themselves, which continue to travel from here piece to the world. What can actually pass the puppet theatre days better to spread its good reputation in this way ?
This year the town welcomes puppet players from 14 countries.
The program tries to control again splits between outstanding handicraft, thus conventional puppet theatre on the one side show and interpretations of fastidious, which is based on the tradition, contemporary topics on the other side.
In addition Mistelbach welcomes stages of world-wide reputation like for example “Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust” from New Delhi, “ t Magisch Theatertje” from Maastricht or “Kaufmann & Co., an Austrian- German stage from Berlin.
Among them there are three important stages from Russia: “Kukolnij cathedral” from Saint Petersburg – there would be a world championship of the puppet players, this stage around one of the landing places would completely surely play! Now however they will inspire us with the ancient material “Faun’s dream” and the fairy tale “Cinderella”. The theatre from the karelischen Vyborg shows its interpretation of the “Bolero” from Ravel with figures, an experience for all, which are interested in the large, visual theatre happening. In contrast to it has itself the third theatre, “Kotofej” from Moscow, used up in small form of the Russian variant of the well-known Grimm fairy tale “Schneewittchen”.
All 29 stages serve the current Festivalthema in very different ways, “from giants, dwarves and other fabulous creatures.”
Exhibition
Poster of the 31. International puppet theatre days
ANNA RESCHL
“fly in humans and other one...”
Their works are shown from 4. October to 26. October 2009 in the context of a large exhibition in the “Barockschlössl”.
Exhibition
MZM MUSEUM CENTER
Mistelbach “gilded”
The exhibition dedicates itself to a historical topic. It shows the influence of the “höfische” baroque theatre on the vagrant puppet theatre of the 18th and 19th Century. In other words, if the “höfische” theatre in the golden splendour radiated, then the later puppet theatre was only thinly gilded, but nevertheless for the land and population of town extremely magnificently.
Mediated by the scenery catalogs and the paper theatre of the 19. Century, in addition, by the still intact baroque theatre and stage architecture the puppet players were in Central Europe in the situation to copy the “höfische” theatre of the 18th century.
The intention these bridges by the example of two puppet players dynasties was to be pointed out. On the basis the family Anderle one from the Slovakia and the family Kressig Dombrowsky from Saxonia.
Unfortunately the family Anderle one did not grant loans, because the entire deducation of the Anton Anderle one is to the 2008 deceased for the time being the national museum in Bratislava for a large intending exhibition at the disposal. That is understandable, but nevertheless unfortunate.
So we can carry out now the lively relations from the play to the puppet theatre by the example according to a family. With this exhibition there will be honoured also the memory on Kurt Dombrowsky, the Principal of the theatre, which died to 2008, whose working is continued however in 7th generation and since short also in 8th generation.
The exhibition shows magnificent, illusionistic painted sceneries and preciously dressed puppets, theatre accessories and much information to the history of the vagrant puppet theatre and to the family Dombrowsky. With the performances “countess Cosel”, “only one Musician” and and “dwarf king Laurin” Uwe and Evelyn Dombrowsky show the play style of the ancestors.
Exhibition
Barockschlössl “Small, but finely”
Paper and house theatre between Biedermeier and in the present
The paper- and house theatre have nearly two-hundred-year tradition. It was in the centre of the 20th century nearly into oblivion guessed, because it had decayed into the first Decennium to the children’s toys, then experiences it for 20 years one Renaissance in the world of the small art. In Preetz, near Kiel its own international festival of the paper theatre players takes place for 22 years, which could receive guests from more than 10 countries.
One, that in Austria this small theatre art maintains is Ulrich Chmel from Vienna. In Mistelbach he is not no more unknown quantity. This year it will show however its performances in one particularly for him created ambience.
The small exhibition shows exhibits of Ulrich Chmel, the Austrian Theatre Museum Vienna and from the collection of engineer Ottokar Chudoba, Wiener Neustadt.
Contact:
Cultural office of Mistelbach
Hauptplatz 6
A-2130 Mistelbach
Telephone: 02572/25 15 5249
fax: 02572/25 15 5249
Email:
puppentheatertage@mistelbach.at
Best regards,
Ulrike Sümegi
Secretary UNIMA Center Austria
12/09/2009
ANIMA 2009
„Variety and contrasts“
International Austrian Figurentheaterfestival
22. – 26. September 2009
in Ottakring & Hernals (VIENNA)
In the context of the International theatre meeting groups from Hungary, Czech Republic, are presented South Tyrol and Austria which used up itself with affectionate devotion and fantasyful commitment of the art form figure theatre. Topics and contents of the pieces shown are just as various thereby as the choice of the artistic means and the form of the public-referred conversion. Visitors of all age groups may expect from there multicoloured round dance of theatre events, which make the special fascination of the figure play experiencable apart from the piece-referred maintenance also.
THE CONCEPT
IN THE CENTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL
THEATRE MEETING THE KOMMUNIKATIVE
MEETING IS LOCATED!
Not only between interested public and various forms of figure theatre, but also suddenly in the public area, where Interkulturalität represents an everyday condition.
Beyond that the festival offers area to the participating artists for meeting and exchange, whereby the festival in subranges becomes a spontaneous, artistic experimentation field. By exhibition, info. POINT and framework meetings the festival offers artists as interested aimed supplementing opportunity to spontaneous meeting.
THE CENTER FUNCTION OF THE THEATERFESTIVALS IS THE SICHTBARMACHUNG OF VARIETY!
The beginnings of figure theatre are enough to the beginning of mankind and mythische rituals. That accordingly all peoples have their own, specific traditions, itself in the process of historical developments adapted, from each other defined or even connected. Beyond that also each individual, artistic style coinage represents a comparable development, there both “ to combinations” (e.g. Play and figures) like also special play forms (e.g. open play) a supplementing connection of most different traditions represent. The Festivalprogramm presents therefore on the basis selected, productions, a cutout of the various possibilities!
IN THE FOREGROUND OF THE THEATRE MEETING STANDING ALSO ARTISTIC CONTRASTS!
Wether stylistic, contentwise or regarding the age target group, ... variety means always also contrast in particular in the figure theatre!.
It begins with extremely simple things like the play place, which can be defined both in the noisy public area and in the theatre separated by the outside world.
Also the size or design of figures re-clamps the range of extremes, and with the function that player inside at all the spirit separates. The festival placed itself it to the task to out-paint and to a broad public present also relevant characteristics!
PLAY PLACES WITH CONCEPT
Regarding the play places the festival follows the slogan: From Ottakring to Hernals!
This purposeful regional emphasis refers to the historical tradition of the numerous Viennese suburban stages, still into the 60’s the 20.
Century coined/shaped the regional cultural life outside of the belt. The historical theatre areas and Kasperlbuden disappeared long and modern housings yielded, therefore tying takes place primarily atmospherically and via the presence which can be reached by means of meeting density.
Conceptions in the theatre become in the TPZ (theatre-educational center) in Ottakring, near which belts take place, and in the Viennese Metropol in Hernals. With fair weather the garden of the Metropol offers atmospheric resemblances to the tradition of the play on Pawlatschen in the pub garden.
And not least are Acts at the well market and other public places on the beginnings of its refer, what we call today figure theatres.
A characteristic recognizable by the choice of the play places is: The play with figures and objects addresses itself to humans of all age groups and is not inevitably suitable for and/or only for children!
EXHIBITION – TRADITIONS & DEVELOPMENTS
The festival is supplemented by an exhibition project, which offers interested view of the history of the figure theatre an don the basis more numerously historical and modern opinion objects present different kinds of figure and their play mechanics.
HEART INFO. POINT
The total context of info, map sale, exhibition and Künstlertreff is to make possible and for staying suggest spontaneous, Kommunikative meetings.
PLAYER INSIDE
In accordance with the organizers ÖBV & ATHEATERWIEN the teams of the participating groups are non-work transact player inside, thus persons, who do not deny their living costs from the practice of their technical skill. This demarcation contains primarily the circumstance the fact that groups and/or player inside its productions do not have to adapt to existing market conditions and produce according to their personal, artistic development freely and also experimentally can compile.
THE PUBLIC
As already under the placed in front criteria represented, it concerns not only a target group, but a various theatre form, which can be addressed particularly, which can offer each special.
Kindergarten and schools are just as particularly addressed accordingly to that and informed as families and interested adults.
In the view to it that Vienna is organizer of the ANIMA for the first time and also from far parts of Lower Austria is well attainable, it is to be seized a large collection area in the context of the announcement work.
PRODUCTIONS
come among other things from Czech Republic, Hungary, South Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Salzburg, upper Austria and Vienna, the spectrum extends from fairy tales for children starting from 4 years up to fastidious political satir of adults.
Program info. shortly up
Tel. 0664 181 4886
Email:
office@atheaterwien.at
Internet:
http://www.atheaterwien.at
Best regards,
Ulrike Sümegi
Secretary UNIMA Center Austria
24/08/2009
THAT’S THE WAY TO DO IT !
A PROPER PUNCH-AND-JUDY SHOW – A LINZ09 festival
Linz09 fetches a really big stick and devotes a festival to a quarrelsome, anarchic, lusty, impertinent cockerel of the theatre.
Kasperl in all his incarnations - Mr. Punch (England), Pulcinella (Italy), Vitez Laszlo (Hungary), Guignol (France), Petroushka (Russia), Don Cristobal (Spain) and the rest of them is a genuine European.
And rare are the occasions when Europeans are as united as they are in the pleasure that this character gives.
WHEN: 11 – 21 November 09
CONCEPT / DIRECTION: Christoph Bochdansky
PERFORMING ARTISTS: Neville Tranter, Hans Jochen Menzel, Guyla Molnar, maschek and many others.
‘I am going to hit you over the head!’ Has the idea ever occurred to you ?
And how often did you do it? Well, that’s much better. As long as you want people to get along with you. But Punch, it’s o.k. for him to hit other people over the head, and if he does it really well, everyone is delighted.
So come to think of it, we’ve all got to be really grateful to Punch. It does one good to get rid of all these malevolent, hidden, egoistical drives. It’s o.k. for him start all these quarrels, all that uproar. Punch is our alter ego in the realm of uninhibited drive satisfaction, our ally for all our apparent civilisation. But the moment he gets moralistic he wilts. And this is precisely what has happened to Punch over a long period of time. This makes him
boring. It’s time to turn over a new leaf
a much tougher one. Punch is a character that can be stuffed with greed, with the lust for food and drink, with egoistical, anarchistic behaviour, with all the things, in a word, that we as human beings would be so fond of. Tamp the ingredients down well and hold a burning fuse to them
the resulting explosion is called Kasperltheater (Punch-and-Judy show).
The festival will be realized in three cycles. The first cycle, which is the core element, will consist of four commissioned works by very special artists, who have given a new direction to this age old form of theatrical entertainment:
Neville
Tranter, one of the grand masters of puppet theatre, has already been performing in Linz on a regular basis. He will present a Punch&Judy version in which Mr. Punch is a bomb laying terrorist.
Hans Jochen
Menzel, head of Marionette Art at Hochschule für Schauspielkunst „Ernst Busch“ Berlin and a renowned puppeteer himself, was responsible for the puppet Puck in the 2007 Salzburg Festival production of Midsummer Night’s Dream. In his forthcoming production he will confront the question of what would happen if there were not just one Kasper but whole lot of them.
Guyla
Molnar, a wonderful poet of object theatre, spent his childhood behind the scenes of Budapest’s puppet theatre, where he struck up a friendship with Henrik Kemény, the master and inventor of the Hungarian Vitez Lazlo play.
His piece is a magical ‘recherche’ of this ‘temps perdu’.
maschek, Messrs Peter Hörmanseder, Robert Stachel and Ulrich Salamun have invented their own genre, regularly on view in the TV show ‘Dorfers Donnerstalk’. The way they satirize figures of authority comes straight out of the tradition of Punch.
The second cycle consists of productions by international contemporary puppeteers that demonstrate how forceful and witty Punch-and-Judy shows can be.
They are well known troupes from all over Europe, who travel the festival circuit and have breathed new life into the genre.
The third cycle is a brief homage to the old masters of the art and demonstrates to audiences what Punch-and-Judy used to look like in its early days.
And if the thought of green crocodiles weeping huge tears or singing melancholy songs should now cross your mind then that is perfect.
And if you should be thinking of red hats that rotate like propellers that is also perfect.
And if the idea should now occur to you to hit death on the head with a gigantic stick so that it slinks away howling with pain, then this is most perfect of all.
Don’t stop fantasizing !
And don’t stop dreaming !
Dream of us !
We’ll back in a bit.
How much does the heart of a puppet weigh ?
The heart of a puppet is light, for light-heartedly it achieves all its feats, even the most despicable ones.
Christoph
Bochdansky, Artistic Director of
THAT’S THE WAY TO DO
IT
!, is a puppeteer, prop maker and stage director, and has been in the business of weighing the world in the balance against marionette theatre for many years.
He ist a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien and at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch Berlin.
He has repeatedly been in charge of organizing puppet theatre festivals in Austria, such as the 1986 Microtheaterfestival (Wiener Festwochen) and the 1992 and 1993 Internationales Puppentheaterfestival Hohenems.
Please contact:
office@linz09.at
With best regards
Ulrike Sümegi
Secretary UNIMA Center Austria
31/07/2009
Doppelgänger - A Linz09
Festival
From puppets to robots, from shadows to animation: a festival In-house and visiting productions trace the trajectory that drama has described from proto theatre to the innovations we are seeing today.
The autumn of 2009 will pass through the whole gamut of theatrical bridge building, from puppet theatre to robots, from shadow play to modern animation techniques.
WHAT: INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL
WHEN: 8. October, 10. – 11. October, 13. – 21. October 09
WHERE: Hafenhalle 09
ARTIST DIRECTOR: Airan Berg
ROMAN PASKA / A SCHOOLBOY PLAY
THERE IS NO SUBJECT
Director Roman Paska imagines in his “mannikin play” a meeting between Wittgenstein and Hitler.
Two of the 20th century’s most significant personalities - Wittgenstein and Hitler could in fact have been classmates in Linz. In pursuit of this idea, Roman Paska has developed his “mannikin play” in which he realises new relationships between projected images and animated objects. Set in a fictitious school of the early 20th century, the play presents a bunch of offbeat schoolboys, who share a predilection for popular literature and pulp novels. Paska mounts motifs and images from detective novels, pulp fiction, comics and adventure stories in his depiction of the rites of passage involved in the process of growing up.
WHAT: PUPPET THEATRE FOR GROWN UPS
CONCEPT / STAGE DIRECTION: Roman Paska
Premiere of a Linz09 production
CPU (CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT) / THE TRIAL
A stereoscopic real time dance theatre play
Kafka’s Trial as dance theatre, or the depiction of a socio-bureaucratic Moebius strip that only stops when the system crashes.
One day Josef K. is arrested and charged with an unspecified crime. An implementation of the code has been set in motion yet it is unknown by whom. Was it a human being, an automated regulatory device, a biologically autonomous intelligent automaton ?
“My home is my matrix - the process is being initiated, please wait.” Sentence A is the precondition for sentence B, the various grammatical systems are intelligible to one another and perhaps at some stage also to Josef K. and the rest of us. No subject could be better suited to a digital interweaving of the networked world we live in with art and the almighty computer.
WHAT: THEATRE
IDEA / CONCEPT / CODE: Robert Praxmarer
CONCEPT / VIDEO / SOUND: Reinhold Bidner
ANURUPA ROY / ABOUT RAM
A puppet theatre performance centring on the Indian Ramayana myth.
Linz09 showcases the innovative Indian artist Anurupa Roy, who provides a modern take on the age old art of puppet and shadow theatre and on ancient mythology. The myth of the Ramayana is alive in many different versions in South and South East Asia. In this version, Ram is a human being rather than a god and does battle with demons in order to save his beloved Sita.
ANURUPA ROY / BOLLYWOOD BANDWAGON
A puppet play about Bollywood, India’s film industry and the tension created by the juxtaposition of stereotype and reality.
The performance becomes a balancing act between two poles: on the one hand the stereotypical plot and equally stereotypical characters of a Bollywood movie that features battle noise, love songs and rivalries. On the other hand there is “making of”, projected on to a huge screen. The show casts a glance at illusion and reality and what lurks behind a gigantic industrial complex.
WHAT: PUPPET THEATRE FOR GROWN UPS
IDEA / CONCEPT / STAGE DIRECTION: Anurupa Roy
VEGARD VINGE / IDA MÜLLER / PUPPET HOUSE
Ibsen with a difference, as a hybrid of drama, fine art, opera, horror film, performance and puppet theatre.
Director Vegard Vinge and designer Ida Müller have created an Ibsen trilogy for the Blackbox Theatre in Oslo that centres on the relationship between parents and children. PUPPET HOUSE is studded with fascinating scenes, many of them intensely moving. The production’s aesthetic effect owes much to the fact that the cast create their own set, props and costumes.
WHAT: THEATRE
DIRECTOR: Vegard Vinge
SET / COSTUMES: Ida Müller
SOUND: Kristian Sagosen
LIGHT: Sverre Randin
CAST: Henriette Berggren, Vegard Vinge, Ida Müller
GOLD EXTRA / BLACK BOX
OBJECT THEATRE FOR REMOTE CONTROL ROBOTS
Object theatre provokes a debate about the human desire for immortality and to break through the limits we are subject to as a species.
Everything is ready for a great theatrical evening: power points, cables, well oiled hinges. Everything needed by eight small-scale, low-tech robots about to end their school year in true humanistic tradition with a performance of “Hamlet”. Soon the little creatures will be fully formed human beings, who are then confronted with the question, “To be or not to be”.
WHAT: OBJECT THEATRE
CONCEPT / TEXT: Sonja Prlic, Karl Zechenter
DIRECTOR: Sonja Prlic
MELANIE SOWA / FRIEDERIKE KRAHL
ON CLOVER OR THE BONE IN MY HEAD
Between 1916 and 1924 Paul Klee created 50 fascinating hand puppets for his son Felix. Loaned to the festival by the Zentrum Paul Klee, this is their first public theatrical airing.
Rainer Maria Rilke and a shrewd gallery owner, who is crisis personified, descend on Paul Klee: Klee’s figures of this world and the next reflect with wit and irony the painter’s universe, provide caricatures of his contemporaries and address his work of self-discovery, the splendour of the years of mastery he attained and the tragic circumstances of his end. Klee, the puppet master, has created himself: a creation that gives him immortality.
WHAT: PUPPET THEATRE
PUPPETEERS: Melanie Sowa, Friederike Krahl
DIRECTION: Mario Hohmann and Ensemble
PUPPETS: Paul Klee
ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE: Gyula Molnar
A coproduction of Theater Kasoka, Theater Handgemenge and the Zentrum Paul Klee.
Please contact:
Linz 2009 - European Capital of Culture
Gruberstraße 2
4020 Linz
T +43(0) 732/ 2009
F +43(0)/732/2009 - 43
office@linz09.at
Best regards,
Ulrike Sümegi
Secretary UNIMA Center Austria
4/07/2009
Visualisierte Linzer Klangwolke 2009
Sa., 05. September 2009, Brucknerhaus, 16:00h Stadt Linz / 21:00h
Donaupark Linz
Artistic board: Airan Berg, Dick van der Harst, Roger Titley, Martina Winkel
Figures: Roger Titley
Text: Martina Winkel
Composition: Dick van der Harst
The Flood
Fabulous creatures created and brought to life by people from Linz and vicinity pour through the city and transform it into a biotope full of wonders. Klangwolke 2009 follows the flow of one of humankind’s oldest narratives the myth of the Great Flood.
Over the Course of the day, the signs and omens intensify as onslaughts of animals careen though the streets and prophets presage frightening visions.
The mastermind behind these imaginative figures is Roger Titley, one of the world’s foremost puppet makers and animation experts. The South African artist’s activities have included a great deal of work in the film and television industries.
The creatures are made of polyethylene, an extremely light-weight material manufactured in Upper Austria by Eurofoam.
The modules of the various figures will be assembled by crews working according to plans, drawings and video instructions prepared by Roger Titley.
Ten students at Linz Art University will be assisting in the implementation of the visual concept.
Public outreach efforts including info sessions and calls for volunteers in the media elicited a response by about 350 persons who are pitching in to create the figures.
Construction began in late April in the Linz Art University’s workshops located on the Main Square (Hauptplatz).
Each figure is easy to manipulate and can be maneuvered by either a single individual or a small group.
At nightfall, the banks of the Danube become the setting of a drama at the nexus doom and deliverance.
With video projections, live music and fireworks, a theatrical account of survival is played and before the backdrop of the night sky and the big river.
Please contact:
office@linz09.at
Best regards,
Ulrike Sümegi
Secretary UNIMA Center Austria
22/06/2009
INTERNATIONAL THEATRE AND DANCE FESTIVAL
28 July -
2 September 2009
POTATELLO KOMPANII / AMATEUR THEATER OÖ (Austria)
DA DEUFÖ (THE DEVIL)
The Freinberg high above Linz is a natural stage, offering commanding views of the River Danube and the city below.
In earlier times it was also the “Galgenberg “, the site of public executions.
The
Potatello Kompanii led by director Christian Suchy and puppeteer Gerti Tröbinger draw on the hill’s dark past to create a contemporary piece of Volkstheater specially for Linz 09 based around the figure of da deufö
(the
devil) and the malign influence his supposed existence has had on human actions in Linz and Upper Austria.
This music-theatre performance features a cast of local amateur performers
Dates:
01.08.09 - 20:30
02 08.09 - 20:30
03.08.09 - 20:30
04.08.09 - 20:30
05.08.09 - 20:30
Location: Linz, Franz Josef Warte, 4020 Linz, Freinberg
WAYANG KULIT
I WAYAN WIJA (Indonesia): WAYANG KULIT
One of the simplest, oldest and most beautiful forms of theatre anywhere: made with shadows from the light of a flickering oil lamp.
In the Balinese WAYANG KULIT a single puppeteer presents an entire epic from the Mahabharata, manipulating all the figures and providing all the voices himself.
I Wayan
Wija, an undisputed master of this traditional form which combines ritual, teaching and entertainment, is more often seen with his cast of gamelan musicians performing in temples in the paddy fields of Bali.
For two nights only you can see his amazing fight sequences and slapstick humour in the fragrant surroundings of Linz’s Botanical Garden.
Dates:
03.08.09 - 21:00
04.08.09 - 21:00
Location: Linz, Botanischer Garten, 4020 Linz, Roseggerstr. 20
KARAGÖZ
CENGIZ ÖZEK (Turkey):
THE MAGIC TREE
Karagöz is the Turkish name for the figure also known as Kasperl or Punch.
Just like his cousins from other nations, Karagöz is rude, funny and always causing trouble.
THE MAGIC TREE is one of the most enduringly popular performances of
Cengiz
Özek, the brilliant shadow puppeteer from Istanbul, who combines traditional characters and slapstick techniques with a fresh and contemporary view of the world.
This show was a great hit with young and old alike as part of the Extra Europe festival earlier this year.
Now here’s a chance to see Karagöz at night in the open air.
A delightful short performance which uses very little language and is suitable for audiences of any age.
Dates:
27.08.09 - 21:00
28.08.09 - 21:00
Location: Linz, Volksgarten, 4020 Linz
INFORMATIONS:
Email:
office@linz09.at
Web:
http://www.linz09.at
19/05/2009
31. International Puppet Festival Mistelbach
This year’s festival theme is
"From Dwarfs, Giants and other fantastic Figures“ and from October
22nd to
26th. You can see astounding, mesmerising performances.
This festival has something for every age and theatrical taste. Puppet troupes and audiences are arriving from all over the globe and gathering at the civic hall of Mistelbach.
Performers from China, France, Germany, Italy and across the United States will delight audiences with their craft, offering both traditional shows and interactive audience workshops.
For adults and children alike this is a special event not to be missed.
Informations:
puppentheatertage@mistelbach.at
With best regards
Ulrike Sümegi
Secretary UNIMA Center Austria
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