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Call for Contribution & Save the Date – Kasper & Friends go UNESCO
📅 Zoom info session: 13 April 2026, 15:00 (CET) | 📨 RSVP by 30 June 2026
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
we are reaching out to you as part of the initiative “Kasper and Friends go UNESCO”, which aims to highlight the shared tradition of comic glove puppetry figures across Europe and to work towards an inscription on UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage.
As a first step, we seek to establish an overview of existing traditions, current theatre practices, research, and national heritage initiatives. We therefore kindly invite you to contribute by sharing the following information or by completing the attached questionnaire yourself.
Survey document/link:
Please find a Google form questionnaire here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf3AJVPH1RpwfWHHQbLePKjQtAYzpT-NBuMZlAsbqpqjU4q0g/viewform?usp=publish-editor
Please find the download versions here: https://www.fidena.de/publish/viewfull.cfm?objectid=99a551d6%5F9117%5Fb78c%5Fa3817d5a12fe496a
We would appreciate receiving your response by June 30th, 2026.
Brief answers or keywords are fully sufficient.
We would also appreciate it if you could share the survey within your professional network of puppeteers, theatre practitioners, and researchers.
Save the Date:
A short Zoom information meeting will take place on April 13th 2026 at 3pm (CET), providing further details about the project, the questionnaire, and possibilities for European collaboration.
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/66459004802?pwd=CA07yVljjFglQi1uL1yseOKORP0Euk.1
Meeting-ID: 664 5900 4802
Password: 304728
The meeting will be in English language.
Please share the questionnaire and the save the date within your networks!
Thank you very much for your valuable contribution to this important cultural heritage initiative. If you have questions about the project, the questionnaire, or want to be added to the projects mailing list to receive news and information, please contact us.
Yours sincerely,
The “Kasper & Friends go UNESCO” Working Group
Katrin Seitz (Ministry for Science, Research and Culture of Brandenburg, Potsdam), Mareike Gaubitz (Head of the Documentation and Research Centre, Fidena, Bochum), Lars Rebehn (Head conservator of the puppetry collection of the Dresden state art collections, Dresden), Ralf Uschner (Director of the Central German Marionette Theatre Museum, Bad Liebenwerda), Dr. Gerd Taube (free Theater scholar, Frankfurt/Main)
Download document: Kasper and Friends go UNESCO_Questionnaire
Source: UNIMA International – The “Kasper & Friends go UNESCO” Working Group