Voices Mag

Gottfried Reinhardt (1935-2013) moved outside of the official cultural scene of the GDR with his critical texts. He was denied accreditation as a professional puppeteer, and so he ran his own puppet theatre, in which he controlled all aspects of the business, from stage design to acting. When he finally had to cease operations due to health complications, he donated a large part of his equipment to the Puppentheatersammlung, among them, this puppet of Jocasta.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder was one of the most influential and successful painters of the 16th century. Particularly innovative pictorial creations such as “The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist” (Budapest, Szépművészeti Múzeum) were copied in large numbers by his sons Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder as well as other artists. Today there are 36 repetitions of the motif, among which the Dresden version, with its exceptionally high quality, occupies a prominent place. The film provides an insight into the elaborate restoration of the painting.

In the wake of the Europe-wide MADE IN project, the Kunstgewerbemuseum brought together the textile designer Cécile Feilchenfeld and traditional Saxon businesses. We captured the process on film, through which she developed headdresses referencing Christmas trees from the Erzgebirge, silk flowers from Arnsdorf and porcelain from Meissen. They are currently on display at the Future Legacies exhibition at the Center ROG & MAO Slovenia in Ljubljana and will be available to see in Schneeberg starting in October.