Man, Puppet! Irmgard Keun - The Artificial Silk Girl: Puppet Theater

Puppet Theater: Man, Puppet! Irmgard Keun - The Artificial Silk Girl
With Anna Stieblich, Jeannette Luft, and Berlin Songs
Performances 2026

Fri, April 10, Sat 11
Fri/Sat 17/18 April
Sat/Sun June 27/28
Thu/Fri October 8/9
Sat/Sun November 28/29
Sat/Sun December 19/20

 

ACTING / PUPPET THEATER / MUSIC: With "Irmgard Keun – The Artificial Silk Girl," the Bremen puppet theater "Mensch, Puppe!" in cooperation with the Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen presents an evening about the writer Irmgard Keun (1905-1982), which brings the famous urban novel to the stage and also tells about the author's life. Irmgard Keun was an important, if not the most important, female literary voice of the Weimar Republic and, with the then bestseller "Das Kunstseidene Mädchen" (The Artificial Silk Girl), wrote a standard work of New Objectivity that is still read in schools today. In it, Keun addresses the role of women in the Weimar Republic while also taking a critical look at the developing consumer and media culture and the wide gap between rich and poor. The puppeteer Jeannette Luft and the actress Anna Stieblich combine Irmgard Keun's great novel with autobiographical texts by the author and many contemporary chansons, thus telling an informative and exciting evening about Irmgard Keun and her time.