Mensch, Puppe! - Gift! Der Fall Gesche Gottfried

In the organizer's words:

Puppet theater with music

Bremen 1831: A young writer arrives on the Weser with a commission to write a travelogue about the Hanseatic city. But she is met with an atmosphere of mistrust, as the city only knows one topic at the time: the imminent execution of the multiple poisoner Gesche Gottfried. The young woman's fate is inadvertently linked to that of Gesche Gottfried.

Based on the historical drama of the Bremen serial killer, the Bremen author Peer Meter (scenario) and the Berlin illustrator Barbara Yelin (drawings) have developed a story full of suspense and intensity in their book "Gift". The puppet and actress Claudia Spörri, the director Henrike Vahrmeyer and the stage and costume designer Katja Fritzsche have been inspired by the drawings and the story and are bringing "Gift" to the stage in an adaptation for Mensch, Puppe!

Spörri brings the world of Gesche Gottfried to life in an artfully crooked scenario of old chests of drawers, card index boxes and shelves (...). Spörri herself, as a travel writer, looks on in amazement at the events (...). Poison" is structured by romantic songs and short musical sketches (...). A dense, multi-faceted and exciting look at a piece of Bremen's history.

- Andreas Schnell taz

Play: Claudia Spörri
Director: Henrike Vahrmeyer
Harmonium, toy piano and glockenspiel: Katharina Hoffmann
Stage/costumes: Katja Fritzsche
Puppet construction: Rainer Schicktanz

Duration: 60 minutes (without intermission)

Price information:

22,- regular | 9,- reduced Kultursemesterticket free Pupils, students, trainees, people under 18, people with severe disabilities, unemployed, volunteers