!!!Marionettenbühnen

Marionette Theatres. Having possibly originated in Asia, marionette 
theatres became popular in Europe during the Middle Ages. In the 
Baroque era marionette plays constituted a much loved form of popular 
theatre (by then a typically Austrian puppet, the "Kasperl" had been 
created), whereas they mainly served to entertain the noble society in 
the 18%%sup th/%  century. Famous 20%%sup th/% -century Austrian 
theatres of this kind are the Salzburg Marionette Theatre (founded by 
the sculptor A.  Aicher in 1913, cycles of Mozart and Gluck operas), 
as well as the "Figurenspiegel" (  Puppet Theatre) of R.  Teschner.

!Literature
B. Raitmayr, Die Salzburger Marionetten, doctoral thesis, 
Vienna, 1969; R. Simmen, Marionetten aus aller Welt, 1978; O. Batek, 
Marionetten-, Stab-, Draht- und Fadenpuppen, 1980; G. Kraus, Das 
Kleine Welttheater. Die Salzburger Marionetten, 1988.


%%language
[Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Marionettenbühnen|class='wikipage austrian']
%%

[{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}]
[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]