“The Puppeteer of Mexico”.

An Essayistic Foray from Puppet Theater in German Popular Music to the Animation of Pinocchio by Walt Disney

Authors

  • Christian Fuchs Theater der Jungen Welt Leipzig

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25819/dedo/137

Keywords:

puppet theater, puppeteer, popular music, Roberto Blanco, Tom Jones, Walt Disney

Abstract

Starting with the German pop song “Der Puppenspieler von Mexico” (1972), the essay follows the history of its development and its forerunners (“The Young New Mexican Puppeteer” and the Original Soundtrack to the Disney film "Pinocchio") and tracks different perspectives on puppet theater and its performers in this foray.

Author Biography

Christian Fuchs, Theater der Jungen Welt Leipzig

Christian Fuchs was born in 1972 in Düsseldorf and studied as a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) in Hamburg. Since 2003 he has been working as a freelance director for opera and puppet theater in in Würzburg, Halle, Erfurt and Leipzig. He was dramaturge at the Theater Waidspeicher Erfurt, director of the Young Theater at Theater Nordhausen and project manager at the Theater der Jungen Welt Leipzig. Since August 2019, he has been working as a freelance director and puppeteer and lives with his family in Leipzig.

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Published

2022-10-17

How to Cite

FUCHS, Christian. “The Puppeteer of Mexico”.: An Essayistic Foray from Puppet Theater in German Popular Music to the Animation of Pinocchio by Walt Disney. just a bit of doll - a multidisciplinary journal for human-doll discourses, [S. l.], v. 5, n. 1, p. 119–124, 2022. DOI: 10.25819/dedo/137. Disponível em: https://dedo.ub.uni-siegen.de/index.php/de_do/article/view/137. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2022): Dolls and puppet figures in narratives – themes and motifs in literature, art, theater, film, media, folklore and popular cultures

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