Theater Tröbinger & Theater mOment (A)
Final performance: “Gottlieb! It’s on fire!”
A theatrical string quartet for adults with puppets and humans, inspired by Max Frisch’s “The Fire Raisers”.
STADTTHEATER WELS
Thursday March 19, 2026
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7:30
p.m.
We humans fall for the arsonists of our time again and again. The leaders, ideologues, and gurus who take up residence in our souls, our minds, and our attics. Out of fear for our own comfort, we invite them to salon music and roast goose—under the motto: Better to have many friends than to stand out unpleasantly! The Biedermann Quartet performs “The Conflagration” for you, a theatre sonata in four movements: Ruth Humer & Gerti Tröbinger chose this explosive subject—still, again and again, strikingly relevant—for their first joint production (2012). Through its skewed comedy, the production achieves an extreme tension between entertainment and subtle, ambiguous social critique.
1st movement: Humanity – giusto ma non troppo (appropriate, but not too much)
2nd movement: Mercy – moderato con dolore (moderate, with pain)
3rd movement: Civil Courage – risoluto ma non tanto (determined, but not too much)
4th movement: Grand finale – con brio molto inferno quasi infernale
About the Groups:
Theater Troebinger (A) Theater mOment (A)
Gerti Tröbinger (born 1959) has been involved in theatre and puppet theatre since her training as a kindergarten teacher (1973–1977). She completed her training as a puppeteer from 1993 to 1996. She works as a freelance puppeteer and puppet maker, both solo and with various ensembles and theatres (e.g. Verein denk:spiel, Landestheater Linz, Theater der Jugend Vienna). Since 2009, she has been the artistic director of the “International Welser Puppet Theatre Festival.” Maximilian Tröbinger graduated in “Contemporary Puppetry” from the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. He works on a touring repertoire for children and adults, as a solo puppeteer and with various ensembles (e.g. “Tröbinger & Tröbinger Puppet Theatre”). Mother and son appear together on stage in several productions.
theater mOment is an independent puppet theatre from Grieskirchen (Upper Austria), founded in 2004 by Ruth and Klaus Humer. Ruth Humer, a trained special education teacher, leads the ensemble and has been working freelance in puppet theatre and theatre education since 2012. Since 2009, she has also worked as assistant to the artistic director of the International Puppet Theatre Festival Wels.
