Eine Insel Mit Zwei Bergen
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Browse piano sheets by Augsburger Puppenkiste on Zen Virtual Piano. In 1943 Walter Oehmichen founded his own small puppet theatre, the Puppenschrein, together with his wife Rose and their daughters Hannelore and Ulla. It was a small wooden stage that could be set up in a door frame, and on the night of 26 February 1944 it was destroyed in a fire following a bomb assault in Augsburg. The figures, however, remained undamaged, because Walter Oehmichen had taken them home after performing for the children of the stage members. A theatre lost to fire while its puppets survived suggests a company whose heart was in the figures rather than in the stage. On 26 February 1948, exactly four years after the Puppenschrein was destroyed, the Oehmichen family reopened the marionette theatre under the name Augsburger Puppenkiste, with the play Der gestiefelte Kater (Puss in Boots). At first Walter Oehmichen whittled the puppets himself, but he soon passed the job on to his daughter Hannelore, who created all the puppets that would soon be known as the stars on strings. Earlier, at thirteen, Hannelore had whittled her first puppet, and had to keep her work a secret because she was not allowed to use the sharp woodcarving knife. A reopening on the exact anniversary of the fire, and a girl carving in secret, suggest a family whose determination ran through the generations, with the work passing from hand to hand. From 1953 the Augsburger Puppenkiste gained popularity throughout Germany, when only a few weeks after the premiere of the Tagesschau the first television programme showing Peter and the Wolf aired on 21 January, performed live from the bunker of the NWDR in Hamburg. While the first television productions were recordings of theatre productions, they soon turned into elaborate films, with only three to four minutes of film produced on each filming day. Three or four minutes of film in a day makes it easy to picture a craft where patience counted as much as imagination, at a pace set by the work itself. The well-known song Eine Insel mit zwei Bergen from the Puppenkiste’s film version of Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer was composed by Hermann Amann and arranged for wind orchestra by Franz Watz. Since 6 October 2001 the Puppenkiste has had a museum on the first floor of the Heilig-Geist-Spital building, directly above the theatre halls; the museum had been a long-time dream of Hannelore Marschall-Oehmichen. In spring 2004 the Puppenkiste was awarded the Goldene Kamera for its television films, and Klaus Marschall says the aim was and is to tell good stories in calm images. A museum above the theatre halls and Klaus Marschall’s aim of good stories in calm images seem to go together: a theatre that keeps its own history close and its storytelling unhurried.
Browse piano sheets by Augsburger Puppenkiste on Zen Virtual Piano.
In 1943 Walter Oehmichen founded his own small puppet theatre, the Puppenschrein, together with his wife Rose and their daughters Hannelore and Ulla. It was a small wooden stage that could be set up in a door frame, and on the night of 26 February 1944 it was destroyed in a fire following a bomb assault in Augsburg. The figures, however, remained undamaged, because Walter Oehmichen had taken them home after performing for the children of the stage members. A theatre lost to fire while its puppets survived suggests a company whose heart was in the figures rather than in the stage.
On 26 February 1948, exactly four years after the Puppenschrein was destroyed, the Oehmichen family reopened the marionette theatre under the name Augsburger Puppenkiste, with the play Der gestiefelte Kater (Puss in Boots). At first Walter Oehmichen whittled the puppets himself, but he soon passed the job on to his daughter Hannelore, who created all the puppets that would soon be known as the stars on strings. Earlier, at thirteen, Hannelore had whittled her first puppet, and had to keep her work a secret because she was not allowed to use the sharp woodcarving knife. A reopening on the exact anniversary of the fire, and a girl carving in secret, suggest a family whose determination ran through the generations, with the work passing from hand to hand.
From 1953 the Augsburger Puppenkiste gained popularity throughout Germany, when only a few weeks after the premiere of the Tagesschau the first television programme showing Peter and the Wolf aired on 21 January, performed live from the bunker of the NWDR in Hamburg. While the first television productions were recordings of theatre productions, they soon turned into elaborate films, with only three to four minutes of film produced on each filming day. Three or four minutes of film in a day makes it easy to picture a craft where patience counted as much as imagination, at a pace set by the work itself.
The well-known song Eine Insel mit zwei Bergen from the Puppenkiste’s film version of Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer was composed by Hermann Amann and arranged for wind orchestra by Franz Watz. Since 6 October 2001 the Puppenkiste has had a museum on the first floor of the Heilig-Geist-Spital building, directly above the theatre halls; the museum had been a long-time dream of Hannelore Marschall-Oehmichen. In spring 2004 the Puppenkiste was awarded the Goldene Kamera for its television films, and Klaus Marschall says the aim was and is to tell good stories in calm images. A museum above the theatre halls and Klaus Marschall’s aim of good stories in calm images seem to go together: a theatre that keeps its own history close and its storytelling unhurried.
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Walter Oehmichen founded the small puppet theatre Puppenschrein in 1943 with his wife Rose and their daughters Hannelore and Ulla, and the family re-opened it as the Augsburger Puppenkiste in 1948.
The first play was Der gestiefelte Kater (Puss in Boots), performed on 26 February 1948.
It is a well-known song from the Puppenkiste’s film version of Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer, composed by Hermann Amann.
Since 6 October 2001 it has had a museum on the first floor of the Heilig-Geist-Spital building, directly above the theatre halls.