Metamorphose Figures - Cardboard
Trick Puppets
© 2009 Marieluise Nordahl, born Lindner, and the participants. All
rights reserved.
Vaudeville string puppets were a very popular attraction
on the roving stages of the puppeteers. Within them were also colourful
painted metamorphose figures made out of cardboard, the so called cardboard
trick puppets. Today, nearly completely disappeared from the stage, they
are stored in oblivion in the depots of museums. Therefore it is a rarity
to experience the historical metamorphose figures in action on the stage
of the Saxon puppeteer Johannes Fischer. In conversation with the puppeteer
the film gives an insight of the front and back of his stage and shows many
a fabulous transformation. At the same time it is a contemporary document
of an almost extinct tradition and a portrait of one of its last protagonists.
2009
Marieluise Nordahl, born Lindner
Thomas Kupser
Dietmar Stahl
In the next edition of JPC will be a cultural-historical,
as well as museological context of the metamorphose figures with a view
of their restoration aspects.
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