Hänsel und Gretel - Marionettentheater

In the organizer's words:

Fairy tale from 1893

Fairytale play based on the opera by E. Humperdinck from 1893 - text by Anna John

The mother of the poor family of the broom maker Andres sends her children into the forest to fetch berries for dinner. The children are surprised by the night and fall into the hands of the witch, who keeps Gretel as a maid and wants to fatten up Hansel so that she can eat him later. The children outwit the witch and are freed. When they are found by their parents, they take the witch's treasures and never have to go hungry again.

In the "child-friendly" production, the parents are acting out of desperation rather than, as in the original Grimms' version, parents who abandon the children in the forest for their own survival; so the mother is a "lover" and not the "evil stepmother"!

The text was recorded by pupils of the E.T.A.-Hoffmann-Gymnasium Bamberg.

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