Theater Tröbinger (A)
Rumpelstiltskin
From age 4 | Duration: 40 minutes
MINORITEN GROSSER SAAL
Tuesday March 17, 2026
|
3:00
p.m.
The miller is a big talker – he can do everything, carries heavy sacks with one hand, knows everyone and everything, and his daughter can even spin straw into gold… at least that’s what he tells the king. The king is delighted, for he has plenty of straw but no gold. “Send your daughter to my castle, there she shall spin the straw into gold. If she succeeds, all is well; if she fails, she must die.” That’s how things go in fairy tales.
Whether the little man gets what he wants and helps the miller’s daughter is best discovered in the theatre. The Grimm fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin, told with life-size puppets by a life-size storyteller.
“I can’t do that at all,” says the miller’s daughter. “You’ve got yourself into this, now you have to see it through,” says the miller. When despair is at its greatest, a little man appears and offers to spin the straw for the miller’s daughter. But nothing in this world is free – the little man, of course, wants something in return.
About the Group:
Maximilian Tröbinger completed the degree programme “Contemporary Puppetry” at 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. Mother and son perform together on stage in several productions. Gerti Tröbinger (born 1959) has been involved in theatre and puppetry since her training as a kindergarten teacher (1973–1977). She trained 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. denk:spiel association, Linz State Theatre, Theater der Jugend Vienna…). Since 2009 she has been the artistic director of the “International Wels Puppetry Festival”.
