The "Animations" series with contemporary puppet theater in the Ludwig Forum space on Jülicher Straße continues in November with two performances. Contemporary puppet theater encompasses a wide range of aesthetic means and scenic possibilities. It combines impulses and inspirations from all the arts. The "Animations" series by the City of Aachen's cultural department in cooperation with artistic director Stephan Wunsch provides insights into this range. The animated figure is at the center of the productions shown.

The screening dates are:

Friday, November 14, 7.30 p.m.
"Gundermann - Engel über dem Revier" / Theater Korona

High school student and unskilled worker, officer candidate and refuser of orders, SED comrade and outlaw, unruly buddy and IM, later vegetarian, mouthpiece of the people in Lusatia, doer and naysayer. Gerhard Gundermann was pretty much everything you could be in the GDR. He drove an excavator - and sang, wrote and acted. Someone who was on fire at two ends. He wanted to live five dreams, he said about himself in an interview. Gundi" worked for over twenty years in an open-cast lignite mine in Lusatia. His songs live on: "Gras", "Alle oder keiner" and, of course, "Engel über dem Revier". How do you get close to this Gerhard Gundermann? The production searches for him in texts, scenes, music with puppet theater, light and shadow.

Saturday, November 15, 3 p.m.
"Alfred im Stroh und anderswo" / Laku Paka

Alfred is a funny bird. He has the strength and size of an eagle, yet he sits in the henhouse with the chickens. All he wants is to become a good clucking bird. But almost all the hens are against him. And even the cockerel would rather chase Alfred off the farm today than tomorrow. Because Alfred is just too 'un-chicken-like'! If it weren't for Rosi, the brave little hen, who likes Alfred just the way he is. A story that begins with a parentless egg and ends with the majestic flight of an eagle.

Further information and tickets are available at www.reservix.de.