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2021 |
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Corona - Covid - Sars-Cov… Vaccination!
Supported by arts fundings:
Scholarship from Senatsverwaltung für Kultur
und Europa Berlin für Künstler*innen,
die Programm für junges Publikum until February,
followed by 2 projects from the NeustartKultur
programme:
TakeAction: Kasper turn(s) the light on! (production)
TakeCare: Matrjoschka-Project (research)
both supported by Fonds Darstellende Ku?nste with
funds from the Federal Government Commissioner
for Culture and the Media.
We will be performing live from September, hopefully!
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2020 |
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2019 |
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We were riding the wave -
then Covid-19 came along…
No Gala event for our 20th anniversary but
instead we created an exhibition with
all our puppets, props and sets - 5 days
with hourly personal guided tours for up
to 5 people! Wonderful! An exchange
about art and the reasons we create it!
We buried ourselves in memories with friends
and colleagues - talked about successes
- laughed about failures.
Christiane Klatt/puppen.etc received one
of 69 grants for freelance artists who
offer a programme for young audiences, granted
by Senat Department for Culture and Europe
Berlin due to Covid-19-restrictions.
From September 2020 to February 2021 we
will focus on research for new production,
documentation of the last 20 years and further
training. THANKS!
From the season 2020/21 Ute Kahmann will
take over the part of Hedgehog and Bear
in the production Mr. Squirrel and the First
Snow. Well, when performances with two people
on stage being closer than 1.5m are allowed
again!
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A new production for an adult
audience is produced.
PUNCHin'
the Cloud
Traditional glove puppet ensemble meets the
dynamic of digitalism.
directed by Tina Feix and performed with Max
Howitz.
Premiere in September at Schaubude Berlin.
(3 performances only - there will be a new
version with a new angle on the topic in 2021)
Puppen.etc is one of the theatres working
for a young audience that is granted the
sum of 14,500 Euros for investments in technical
equipment, office equipment and tools/
materials by the Senate Department for Culture
and Europe Berlin. THANKS A LOT! |
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2018 |
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2017 |
Further
Training:
Glove puppetry with Peter Waschinsky; voice/singing
with Antje Behrens
professional workshop in Cannes, France, at
Arketal Company: Pop-up and puppet theatre
(June)
Continually sharing the workspace Theaterremise
with Kristina Feix (Theater Kranewit) and
others
In summer we create a new Kid's show -
Uwe Günzel directs:
Let's
go, Little Fear! For 4+
Premiere at Figurentheater Grashüpfer,
September 14th, 2020, at the festival Frischer
Wind.
This is Uwe and my 2nd devised production
without a literary source. Using the pop-up
technique I just learned in France.
Award for children's and youth's theatres
from Senate department for Culture and Europe
Berlin 2018; prize 12,500 Euros.
"Please take this award as a sign of
our recognition and appreciation of your work
and commitment to Berlin's vivid theatre landscape."
(Secretary of State Dr. Torsten Wöhlert)
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Research and try-out at the festival
Theater der Dinge (Schaubude Berlin) for
our new production for adults on the topic
of Kasper/Punch, digital totalitarianism,
self-responsibility…
Touring to Hamburg, Bielefeld, Darmstadt,
Dresden…
The Ringelnatz-Show based on poems by Joachim
Ringelnatz is performed at his birth house
in Wurzen - and on the conference of the German
Association of German Puppet Theatres in Lübeck.
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2016 |
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2015 |
After
2 produktions in one year, I need some space
for peace and inspiration.
In summer Uwe Günzel and I transform
the Show
"Salt - A Tale" into a solo
performance.
This year is shaped through further education:
- Animation and Voice
(Figurentheater Kolleg, Bochum)
with I. Müller-Braunschweig and Michael
Vogel (Wilde und Vogel)
- Sewing Figures (Hof Lebherz)
with Jürgen Maaßen
- Figure theatre conference of UNIMA Germany
in Northeim
- Power oft he puppet II with Neville Tranter
(Lübeck)
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Bones
- a Wolfsfrau Variation
A solo-piece for Adults
airily based on the myth of La Loba/Wolf Woman
premiere on 7 May 2015.
Direction: Susanne Henke
A Raggle
Taggle Tale
New children's piece for age 3 and older
Our first production without a literary
source
Idea and text:
Christiane Klatt and Uwe Günzel (Direction)
Premiere August 2015
UK Tour September/October:
Skipton Festival, the Boo, Upfront Theatre.
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2014 |
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2013 |
New
staging of the Ringelnatz Evening
as a solo-piece -
Mir scheint da mancherlei nicht klar?
A reworking of the set and the overall conception,
a few old acquaintances remain...
New additions include tKuddel Daddeldu and
Kasper. The renewed engagement with Ringelnatz's
biography led to these changes, as well as
the shift in perspective for the performer
that age brings...
Directed by Susanne Henke,
Dramaturgy Katharina Tarján
and
Large puppets built by Silvia Eisele
Tours in Saxony and North-Rhein-Westphalia.
Workshop "Figures on Strings by Frank
Soehnle and Raphael Mürle |
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A new children's show
Johnny Happy-Go-Lucky
(AKA Hans im Glück, by Grimm)
Directed by Uwe Günzel, Puppets
by Silvia Eisele, and the music and
song were written for me by Sebastian David,
many thanks!
In May I organise a Festival entitled "Puppet
and the Nazi era" at the Theater in Treptower
Park as part of the Berlin Theme Year "Destroyed
Diversity"; ten shows take place (including
two sponsored by the NPN.)
Directed The story
of the little uncle, a show for
children by Nicole Gospodarek, Berlin.
Meller Else 2013 - awarded the Cultural "Oscar"
from the town Melle for the piece "Big
Wolf and Little Wolf - The leaf that did not
want to fall".
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2012 |
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2011 |
Research
trip to France (April/May): meeting colleagues
and watching them at work, visiting museums
(Chagall, Matisse etc.) and letting ideas
for future projects mature.
Research trip UK: To the Edinburgh Fringe
and back via Penrith, Birmingham, Stratford-upon-Avon,
Norwich, London, Brighton...
Ringelnatz goes on tour all across Germany
(Bad Segeberg, Hamburg, Lüneburg, PUK
Bad Kreuznach, Offenbach, LTT Tübingen.)
Directed Sophie's
New Dress, a show for children
by Uta Gumm, Hamburg.
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Nicole Gospodarek and I co-produce
the children's show Mr
Squirrel and the first snow
based on the book by Sebastian Meschenmoser
(Thienemann-Esslinger-Verlag). Sebastian visits
the first night and signs books and postcards!
Two performers - three puppets (sorry, snail,
four!) an interesting experience. Susanne
directs us.
We used the crowd funding platform
startnext.de to finance the music
for the show - very exciting. Thanks to all
supporters again!
(and thanks once again to you, Sven, for the
spontaneous hedgehog and squirrel video interview!
We loved it!)
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2010 |
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2009 |
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Lübeck (amongst others puppen.etc)
hosts the 35. Bundeskongresses des Berufsverbandes
vdp.
(Association of professional puppet theatres
in Germany)
Workshop with Frank Soehnle/Karin Ould-Chih
in Bochum:Puppet theatre and dance.
Production of a new children's show
Big
Wolf and Little Wolf: the leaf that didn't
want to fall based on Nadine Brun-Cosme,
directed by Susanne Henke.
In October M.Grund and I produce a new
version of the Ringelnatz-show
directed by Bärbel Frank (Theater
Brausepulver)
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For years, parts
of the Ringelnatz-Show were shown in the variety
show of puppets at
Figurentheater Lübeck. 2009 those fragments
are performed in Wolfsburg and Paderborn at
festivals.
Salt
- a fairy tale is revised with M.Grund
directed by Silke Technau.
The
Fir Tree set is extended and renewed.
A narrator character is added.
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2008 |
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2007 |
puppen.etc joins
the association of professional puppet theatres:
Berufsverband der Puppentheater vdp e.V.
I fall in love with David McKee's Two
Monsters
Uwe Günzel (director) and I develop
a 40 min. show for children from age 3.
Silvia Eisele creates the monsters.
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I go completely
freelance with my theatre company!
We kick off this move with a tour in Scotland
at the Puppet Animation Festival.
Shadow E.A.Poe
(2.0) is revived and extended.
We perform in an old factory and at the
Hannoversche Schattentheaterfestival.
Unfortunately the show is too big to tour.
Workshop with Neville Tranter
(Stuffed Puppet Theatre) excites me!
puppen.etc becomes part of the repertory
of at
Figurentheaters Lübeck
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2006 |
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2005 |
My
Kingdom for A Cookie
based on a tale by Richard Leander.
directed by Silke Technau.
Silvia Eisele creates the table top
puppets.
Silvia replaces Anthony in managing the tech
for
Salt - a fairy tale.
The company's work is acknowledged as artistically
and educationally valuable and therefore
is accredited by the Jugendkulturservice
Berlin.
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I meet Silvia
Eisele, a puppet maker.
We find and share a workshop space in Berlin.
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2004 |
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2003 |
puppen.etc's U-Theater
For the bar next door we develop little puppet
playback scenes:
Fred Espresso sings Frank Sinatra, a cheese
Edith Piaf, …
Salt
- a fairy tale
Katharina Tarján (dramaturgy)
develops a shadow show with me based on
fairy tales about salt. We take Die Gänsehirtin
am Brunnen by Grimm as our starting point.
Katharina designs the flyer.
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Shadow
Andrea Galluccio starts to put Edgar
A. Poe stories to music and puppen.etc creates
shadowplay for it. 5 stories are produced
fort his scary evening. We tour to Offenbach.
First Christmas Production!
Fascinated by shadow play I produce Hans-Christian
Andersen's The
Fir Tree.
My first solo show! Anthony runs the tech.
We present it at our first international
tour in Brütten (Switzerland).
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2002 |
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2001 |
Christiane Hess
returns to Hannover and we change the Ringelnatz-Programm
to work with only two performers.
EOS (Elektro ohne Smog)
New abstract music concert with a violinist
and a saxophonist from Vienna and a guitarist
from Berlin - I spontaneously form shadows
on a projection screen for it.
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We re-work
"und publikum
noch stundenlang"(2.0),
Christiane Hess takes over Nicole's
place. She is trained as a mime and puppeteers
and the show changes its dynamic.
We create a little 20 min. show in English
based on Mother Goose rhymes for the British
Council Germany All
the king's men.
and two walk acts: Mrs Parker und Bill
Smith engage with the guests.
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2000 |
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Anthony Gaughan and I (Christiane Klatt)
found puppen.etc Theater mit Figuren.
I joint UNIMA in 1999.
Our first production
Träume Wünsche Wahrheit
is based on The Mender of Broken Dreams
The puppeteer and storyteller Uwe Günzel
joins the company for the production - in
2008/2013 he re-joins to direct.
In Winter we - Anthony, Nicole Gospodarek
(actress) and I create a show based on poems
by Joachim Ringelnatz, a German poet (1883-1934)
"und publikum
noch stundenlang" In 2011
Nicole re-joins the company for a production!
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Festivals |
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Mir scheint da mancherlei nicht klar
- Ringelnatz
2014 3. Figurentheaterfestival im Figurentheater
Lübeck
2017 Klaps! Augsburg
Komm mit, kleine Angst!
2018 Frischer Wind - Grashüpfer, Berlin
Big Wolf and Little Wolf: The leaf that
does not want to fall
2011 "Ancient Trance" Intern.
Maultrommelfestival in Taucha
2013 Lesezauber in Frankfurter Bibliotheken
2013 Meller Puppenspieltage (Jury-Preis)
2014 KiLian - Sächsische Bibliotheken
2015 Skipton Puppet Festival, UK
2017 Klapps, Augsburg
2018 Lesezauber, Frankfurt
Mr. Squirrel and the first Snow
2014 Meller Puppenspieltage
2012 Puppenspielfest im FEZ
My Kingdom For A Cookie
2007 Puppet Centre - London (GB)
2007 Berliner Märchentage
2007/8 "Ancient Trance" Intern.
Maultrommelfestival in Leipzig
2008 Puppets for People - Wendlandfestival
2008 Puppenspieltage im FEZ - Berlin
2009 Lesezauber in Frankfurter Bibliotheken
2010 1. Figurentheaterfestival im Figurentheater
Lübeck
Salt - A Tale
2006 Figuranima - Berlin
2006 Berliner Märchentage
2007 1. Schattentheaterfestival - Hannover
2010 1. Figurentheaterfestival im Figurentheater
Lübeck
The Fir Tree
2003 Brütten (CH)
2005 Berliner Märchentage
2007 Puppet Animation Festival Scotland
(GB)
Shadow - E.A.Poe
2007 1. Schattentheaterfestival - Hannover
Two Monsters
2008 Berliner Märchentage
2009 Puppenspieltage im FEZ
2013 Bottroper Puppentheatertage
2015 Skipton Puppet Festival, UK
Ringelnatz (Auszüge)
2009 Langen Puppennächte der Festivals
in Paderborn und Wolfsburg
2014 Theaternacht Hamburg
2014 Silvesterprogramm Figurentheater Lübeck
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