Margrit Gysin: Ädgeiss

In the organizer's words:

Puppet theater about the magic of becoming, being and passing away in nature | From 4 years

Inspired by the picture book "Etwas von den Wurzelkindern" by Sibylle von Olfers, Margrit Gysin tells the story of Mother Earth - embodied as a natural being, simultaneously human, animal and plant. The creature is accompanied by a cheeky beetle and a goat. The goat lives deep underground, gives milk, spins magic threads to mend the earth and plays with the root children. The Mother of the Earth has a book and a drawer full of pictures, sounds and treasures. The root children, the beetle and the Ärdgeiss experience stories that develop according to the rhythm of the seasons: the joys of spring, the glistening of the water, the sun that brings drought, the harvest in fall, sleep in winter.

Margrit Gysin founded her puppet theater in 1976 together with Michael Huber. For almost five decades, she has been telling "existential stories about the wonders and wounds of life and conjures up the consolation of the world from coat pockets and between book covers", as stated in the laudation for the Swiss Theater Prize, which she was awarded in 2017.