Christoph Bochdansky und Schuberttheater Wien (A)
FAUST – A Tragic Medley
From age 14 | Duration: 70 minutes
STADTTHEATER WELS
Monday March 16, 2026
|
7:30
p.m.
The life of Georg Faust (c. 1480–1540) already took on legendary qualities in the accounts of his contemporaries. He stayed in various university towns in Germany and practised the fashionable sciences of his time – medicine, astrology and alchemy – right up to the point of charlatanism. Shortly after his death, the chapbook “Historia von D. Johann Fausten” was published and made him known far beyond the borders of Germany. The first theatrical adaptation took place in England by Christopher Marlowe, after which the Faust material was repeatedly reworked and became especially popular in puppetry. It is likely that Goethe became acquainted with Faust through puppet theatre. We would like to present this wonderful world of Dr Faust not only through Goethe’s text, but above all through the aspects that puppetry has brought into this narrative. And because we loved it all so much – Goethe (both Part I and Part II), Marlowe and the puppet plays – we left nothing out and brought everything in. What a delight! Come closer, dear people, come closer and see!
The famous sorcerer and black magician –
Doctor Faust, the tragedy in all its colours and calamities!
About the Group:
Christoph Bochdansky (AT), puppeteer and puppet maker, studied stage design at the Mozarteum Salzburg and at the Figurentheaterkolleg in Bochum. In addition to solo work, he regularly collaborates with Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel (Leipzig) and the duo “die Strottern” (Klemens Lendl, David Müller). He performs at international festivals and works as a director, set designer and puppet builder for institutions such as the Puppentheater der Stadt Halle, Theater Junge Generation Dresden, Zurich Opera and Białostocki Teatr Lalek (Poland). He is a guest lecturer at universities in Stuttgart, Berlin and Bratislava. Publications include: Anmerkungen zur Umgebung (2015), Botendienst ins Jenseits (2019), and the comic Lieder vom Horizont (2021). Schubert Theater Vienna (AT) is well known and loved for its morbid-humorous evenings as well as its poetic visual journeys, making it a place of imagination and magic. For several years now, the team led by Simon Meusburger and Lisa Zingerle has been dedicated entirely to puppetry for adults. In addition to collaborations with renowned Austrian theatres, established puppeteers and young companies from the puppetry scene, as well as guest performances at home and abroad, Schubert Theater organises its own puppetry festivals. Since 2019, Simon Meusburger and Lisa Zingerle have also placed a strong focus on digitality and new technologies in, for and with theatre, and in 2021 they opened the Virtual Puppet Museum at the in-house Future Lab.
