Müllers Marionetten-Theater

Müller's Puppet Theater is a puppet and marionette theater in private ownership in Wuppertal. The ensemble plays in its own theater in Elberfeld district Ostersbaum annually around 300 performances. All dolls are made in our own studio theater. The offer is aimed at children and adults. In addition to the repertoire in his own house, which is mostly played with puppets and playbacks, the ensemble designed family concerts with many leading German orchestras, will be built for the experimental, larger and manually moving dolls. In addition, the theater has repeatedly drawn musical theater productions live. The ensemble was invited to guest appearances in Russia, Japan, Switzerland and France.

History

The Swiss Ursula Müller learned after the occupation of a foreign correspondent in Lübeck's Marionette Theater, the puppet and the Marionettenbau. In 1983 she founded with her husband, dramaturge Günther Weissenborn the ensemble in the Bremen -theater packhouse. Opening ceremony was the Singspiel Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In a short time three more operas were developed. Three years later, drew miller puppet theater in Wuppertal, where it is first played regularly in the foyer of the Opera House before their own theater on the premises of a former inn located in Wuppertal, New Pond was created after a stopover in a private television studio in 1992. In 2010, the theater was extensively rebuilt and remodeled wheelchair accessible. The theater has a stage with a particularly ambitious lighting device which includes over 100 theater spot.

Repertoire

The repertoire is aimed at all age groups, not just in terms of the choice of the pieces, but also based on their design. After Children's Pieces should be interesting for adults and adult pieces for children. The repertoire ranges from fairy tale dramas to theater materials in the fields of theater, dance theater and opera, it includes productions like Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps, Mozart's Magic Flute and a Vertanzung of the Piano Concerto by Robert Schumann. The dramatizations for Müller's puppet theater the playwright writes Günther Weissenborn. The performances are generally drawn from a uniform aesthetic approach out, sets, costumes, lighting and character designer follow a holistic idea. In the productions of the music is of particular importance, so commissions will be awarded for the incidental music in fairy dramas regularly. The last production is a children's musical based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Little Mermaid. Major actors lend their voice to the puppets, which Bernd Kuschmann, Siegfried W. Maschek, Andrea Witt, Barbara Bayer and Birthe include elm.

One of the early activities in the field of opera, the participation of the ensemble in Werner Herzog's staging of the Carlos Gomes ' opera Il Guarany heard at the Bonn Opera in 1994, which was shown under Plácido Domingo also at the Washington Opera. 2002, the theater designed Stravinsky The Soldier's Tale with members of the Wuppertal Symphony. In the season 2008/09, Bonn was Lutz Werner Hesse's composition premiered together with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn The Butterfly Workshop by Gioconda Belli and Wolf Erlbruch at the Opera House, 2009/10 came Hesse's chamber opera Mario with singers and musicians of the Wuppertal Opera in the Wuppertal theater for premiere.

In a special way, miller puppet theater in the design of family concerts for symphony orchestra has excelled. The very first production with Edvard Grieg's incidental music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt was invited in to the Berlin Philharmonie. This was followed by collaborations among other things, with the Düsseldorf Symphony, the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Essen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Kassel. Müller's Puppet Theatre brought the opera Philemon and Baucis by Joseph Haydn at the Bochum Schauspielhaus and the Haydn Festival in Kemnade out with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and young singers at the Folkwang University of the Arts Eating.

• The Little Prince on the book by Antoine de Saint- Exupéry
• " Urfaust " play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Schumann A minor, dance theater for a puppet
• Piano ( t) space I II, cabaret music for a puppet and Uwe Roessler
• The Firebird, ballet by Igor Stravinsky

• A little witch ( Günther Weissenborn )
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• Frau Holle and many other fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm
• The Little Snowman ( Günther Weissenborn )
• Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver and Jim Button and the Wild 13 by Michael Ende
• The robber Hotzenplotz and News from the robber Hotzenplotz by Otfried Preußler
• Caliph Stork by Wilhelm Hauff
• Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev
• Little Peter Moon trip to Gerdt of Bassewitz

Family Concert Programs

• A Midsummer Night's Dream with music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
• The story of the little elephant Babar, with music by Francis Poulenc (along with the march for a small elephant by I. Stravinsky, as an orchestral and piano version )
• Concert on the lake, family concert for large concert organ compositions by George Frideric Handel and FX of Neucomm
• The Pied Piper Fantasy, Flute Concerto by John Corigliano

Awards

Müller's puppet theater was awarded the prize of Enno and Christa Springmann Foundation 1999.