Lübeck Museum of Theatre Puppets
The theater figure Lübeck Museum is located in the Old Town of Lübeck, near the Holsten Gate in the small alley Kolk below the St. Peter's Church in Lübeck. Shown is the Puppentheatersammlung Fritz Fey.
Museum
In decades of commitment Fritz Fey filled jr this consists of five old town houses of brick Gothic museum with diverse, international relics from the world of puppet theater. Thematically related to the renowned special collections of the Munich City Museum and Puppet Theatre Collection of the State Art Collections in Dresden, it is a nationally acclaimed contribution to Lübeck's museum landscape, promoted by the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, the Cultural Foundation of the State of Schleswig -Holstein and as a support by the Possehl Foundation as a shareholder will.
Collection
The museum has about a thousand pieces from three centuries from the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia, which belong to the most diverse groups of figures: hand puppets, marionettes, rod and finger puppets, quirks, shadow puppets, marionettes, ventriloquist dolls and mechanical figures of all kinds
Among the "stars" in the museum include the imaginative shadow puppets of Indonesia ( Wayang ), Moto Rafael, electrical draftsman, "dog clown ", who appeared along with real dogs, and the Metamorphoses, technically refined transformation dolls.
Abstract Figures of Kassler art professor Harry Kramer represented modernity in the museum's collection; they belong to his first of two programs 13 scenes ( premiered in 1955 at the Galerie Springer, Berlin). His Mechanical Theatre consisted of bizarre and abstract sculptures made of papier-mâché, wood and wire, [Figure 1 ], the two players arranged in a collage-like scenes to the music on a small black stage are set in motion. The puppet theater Kramers showed no action sequences, such as the classic puppet, but to pieces of music, jazz and musique concrète, scale motions.
The museum presents not only theater figures, but also posters, props, scenery, costumes, musical instruments and all theater.
The Museum Quiz young people and their parents can playfully immerse yourself in the world of puppetry. In the video room of the museum a short film about puppet shows around the world is shown.
The museum also has a shop and a café.
From September 2010, within the framework of the project until the end of 2011 digital photographic acquisition of the stock of theatrical characters Museum Lübeck, which is funded by the Possehl -Stiftung Lübeck, photographed about 35,000 pieces in the exhibition and fundus of the museum in large parts and about Fritz Fey available collection data recorded digitally. Images and information are freely available to the public on the Internet. The aim is to digital archiving also, collectors, researchers, and private persons skilled and interested to give on a separate internet work platform the opportunity to participate in the correction, addition, discussion and improving the collection information.
International importance
The museum has in its collection exhibits that illuminate the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The puppet theater experiences internationally currently increasing protection by UNESCO, already the Sicilian Puppet Theatre "Opera dei Pupi " (2001), the Indonesian Wayang Kulit (2003), the Japanese Ningyo Jōruri Bunraku (2003) and the Cambodian shadow theater sbek Thom Khmer ( 2005) has proclaimed Masterpieces of the Oral and intangible Heritage of Humanity. The People's Republic of China has declared both the shadow play as well as the Marionette Theatre 2006 Intangible Cultural Heritage of the People's Republic of China and ratified the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, 2004.
Special
- Large-scale shadow puppets from South India were shown floating under brick Gothic church vaults in the adjacent St. Peter's Church in summer 2010.
- From 28 June to 30 September 2013, the puppet theater is Augsburg Puppet Theatre on the occasion of his 65th birthday at the museum as a guest.
- 6 April to 9 June 2014: Adolph Friedländer - Lithographs & Posters