Hand puppet
Hand puppets usually consist of a head, in which the index finger is inserted, and a dress, under which the whole hand disappears. The arms are usually stub -like and be played with thumb and little finger, rare hand puppets are made with legs. In animal dolls you hold your thumb and the other fingers so that the animal 's mouth can open and close.
Hand puppetry as an art form
Traditional: Whether it is the "Mr. Punch" in England, dell'arte, the figure of Pulcinella from the Italian Commedia or the buffoon, clown or puppet of the German-speaking countries - the typed character traits of this well-known main characters are very similar: it is everywhere the pretty clever, humorous and witty small, simple man in the street who is not squeamish and white with an open mind and sometimes with subtle cunning of his skin to fight well and thus the viewer shows how to become reasonably well through suggests life.
The figures around the " Kasper " of the puppet theater are mostly hand puppets - according to widely known. The classic hot Kasper, Seppel (his friend), Wachtmeister, devil, crocodile, grandmother, witch and princess. Puppeteer put their hand puppets mostly in manual labor manufactures or leave them special carving - the most famous among them are probably Theo Eggink, Till de Kock, Fritz Herbert Bross and Jürgen Maaßen - individually finished. The skillful management of the hand puppet is often underestimated and requires a patient instruction and lots of practice. Famous artistic hand puppeteers were, among others, Max Jacob, Rudolf Fischer, Friedrich Arndt, Wolfgang Buresch, Therese Keller, Benita Steinmann, Gerd J. Pohl, Alfredo Bannenberg, Jo Micovich, Heinrich Maria Denneborg, Oswald Hempel, Heinz Fülfe, Paul Hölzig, Walter Buettner Erhard and rice.
New development: Since the beginning of the seventies, the German puppet theater scene has become more and more moved by Kaspertheater away to free art forms out. Main engines were for Peter Steinmann ( the stage ) in Berlin, Marie Louise Ritter ( frankfurter figure theater ) in Frankfurt and Peter Roeder ( Fabula Theatre ) in Kiel (now Idstedt ). All exiled puppets and dramaturgy of her pieces, but they used to continue the hand puppet and joined her soon others about the Game Bar to playing figures to - stick figures, Schlenker dolls ( quirks ) or figures with internal twist mechanism (after Hawlik ), such as Smudge the figure and the penguins of frankfurter figure theater.
The simple design assures not only that puppets are made by amateurs and children and can be played. The greatest artistic charm is in the immediate connection with the human hand. This makes it the most physical figure type, can move at most spontaneous and thus respond most directly to the audience. She breathes with the puppeteer and has played complete, so natural that the audience repeatedly succumb to the illusion that she was really alive. Not to mention here are the countless ventriloquist of the Western world, for the most part brilliant puppeteers (especially Klappmaul figures) work exclusively with hand puppets. Only the magical liveliness of her dolls causes the necessary distraction from the face of the manipulator.
Friedrich Arndt worked intensively with the artistic expression of the hand puppet and already in 1950 published a small compendium of hand puppet that has full validity today. He once said: " Actually, the hand puppet is the most difficult -to-play figure type, just do the little one, and unfortunately there are so many wonderful ways away. " Quite the contrary and not gentle horror of the exception Kaspertheater playing his generation he who Hohnsteiner Kasper in person, enthusiastic about the young movement and staged with great dedication 1974-78 three entirely kasper free hand puppet theater pieces in Frankfurt figure theater was.
Hand puppets as toys and educational use
Hand puppets as children's toys are available in highly varying quality in stores.
Sock puppets are made of wool stockings with residues and cardboard puppets that also move the mouth and pull faces and due to its simple preparation procedure can already be crafted by older preschoolers and elementary school students.
Outside of the artistic use or as children's toys, they are sometimes mascots and can provide valuable assistance in psychotherapy especially in younger and older people in role-playing games. An example in elementary school hand puppets are inserted Fara and Fu, or Quiesel. In Wetzlar a pastor enriched his children sermons for some time been very successful with a large kumquats doll.
Famous Puppets
- The Hohnsteiner Kasper
- The goose Mimi Am dam of
- Hase Caesar
- Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy from the Muppet Show
- Lemmi from " Lemmi and the tome "
- Plumpaquatsch the green Aquarius, very elaborate hand puppet
Since the Ming Dynasty, hand puppets are also represented in the Chinese puppet theater.
Others
In the film Rumpe and Tuli (Released August 2010) two sock puppets play with this name, the main roles.