Krieewelsche pappköpp

Krieewelsche pappköpp is a dialect Royal Marionette Theatre in Krefeld. The program of amateur theater, which was founded in 1979 and operates on its own stage since 2004, is aimed primarily at an adult audience.

Early years

After its establishment, was driven among other things by a guest performance by Hrvinek & Spejbl in Krefeld, the Krieewelsche were pappköpp first as mobile cabaret at different venues in the Krefeld area go. The very first performance in 1979 took place, for example in the Krefeld jazz cellar. Even on the flat market in the Burg Linn they are regularly represented with many performances per day, as well as workshops for puppet making.

From the beginning, playing to sold-out venues, the gambling in krieewelsch platforms puppet theater soon developed into a kind of Krefeld institution: the West German newspaper produced in 1986 even a record of Kruut on Röve program. The recordings of this took place before an audience in autumn Pitt on 1 March 1986. 1683 emigrated 13 Krefeld families by ship to Philadelphia from, with the city of Krefeld connects twinned. In 1983, the Jubliläumsjahr pappköpp traveled with the support of the city there and played their pieces in Platt, High German and English. In the year before the trip, the ensemble has published more than himself a small pamphlet with pictures, newspaper clippings and his own texts from his early days.

The known today dolls the early days, as the Matthes or Schäng, the Drietköter van Linter 's Lumpy or professor Dingenskirchen, a " specialist teachers for Krieewelsch ( Krefeld ) Platt" invented and built Karlheinz Boves, the local from the fall of 1978 amateur puppeteer for his idea van Danish pappköpp - Moppeclub could inspire.

Pieces, or small Stöckskes for the cabaret programs pappköpp attributed primarily members of the ensemble, as Werner and Manfred Coelen, but also the dialect authors Theo Mülders and Willy Hermes. Many of them, often took up current events, were also broadcast on the radio wave at the Lower Rhine.

The West German newspaper published in 1998 for the twentieth anniversary of the pappköpp a richly illustrated more than 200 - page book about the Krefeld Moppetheater with a representation of their creation and its history, perceptions of the individual ensemble members and their tasks and activities, placing some of their pieces and a CD with sound recordings from various shows.

Private theater

Since 19 November 2004, is the puppet theater Krieewelsche pappköpp now on their own playing location in the Peter Lute Road 62 in Krefeld. Made possible by, among others, had a number of regional sponsors. In the theater about 25 performances per season will take place, which runs from November to March. Tickets are available only in advance, they are regularly sold out after a few hours. The current theater was originally built as a church, after long years of gym neighboring elementary school and now has 160 seats after the conversion of table rows.

Even today, four founding members are located in predominantly male ensemble of the up to now be understood as an amateur stage theater, so the today also responsible for public relations puppeteer and spokeswoman Christel Loos.

With no nasty Thu turn appeared more recently, a regional book with texts of pappköpp and a CD.

Since 2008, the theater Krieewelsche Pappköpp is also the venue of the " Krefeld mulled wine cabarets ", a yearly comedy show mixed series over 5 days, which is presented and organized by the Krefeld Wohnzimmertheater PODIO.

Rhineland Credits

For his services to the theater is the founding member and director Ralf Kochann was awarded the 2006 Rhineland dollars.

Discography

• Kruut on Röve (1986 ), intercom panel
• Van ieene Pott s the angere ... (1993 ) Live - CD for 15 year anniversary
• The Westbahnhof Story ( 1996) CD
• 20 years Krieewelsche pappköpp (1998), book with CD ( see literature)