Matthias Kuchta (D)
Generational Change, Changing Times, a Family Mosaic
From age 14 | Duration: 45 minutes
MINORITEN GROSSER SAAL
Wednesday March 18, 2026
|
6:00
p.m.
In this mosaic-like narrative, Matthias Kuchta explores the many intertwined threads of his own family history, discovering historical connections, stumbling across simultaneities, forgotten and unspoken things, and the susceptibility of reasonable people to right-wing extremist clamour. A storytelling performance with letters, postcards, paper figurines and sand, ranging from the Prusso-Austrian War through the partition of Denmark to Radegast Station in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, from Marta Zade’s signature stamp to Generation Germany.
About the Group:
Lille Kartofler Puppet Theatre from Langenfeld in the Rhineland is the work of puppeteer Matthias Kuchta. For 35 years, he has been staging fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and the Danish fairy-tale poet Hans Christian Andersen using his impressive, large-scale fabric puppets. He is a true audience magnet – from Osaka, Vancouver and Boston to Paris, Copenhagen, Dublin and Rome. Matthias Kuchta has been a regular and much-appreciated guest at the Puppet Theatre Festival in Wels for many years.
