GERMANY/ 10th Internationales Figurentheater Festival “Blickweschel” (“Change of view”?) will take place in Magdeburg from 20th to 26th June 2014.
http://www.blickwechselfestival.de/
The exuberant, picture-laden programme, in German with some English, can be read here:
http://www.blickwechselfestival.de/puppentheater_blickwechsel2014_programmheft_web.pdf
Visiting companies include Wishing Chair Productions, who have been working out of Nashville Public Library in the US since 1938, with “String City: Nashville’s Tradition of Music and Puppetry”, “a performance by a choir of country music legends comprised of marionettes, rod puppets and shadow figures as the Puppet Theatre of Magdeburg’s partner city of Nashville pays its respects to the change of view festival in Magdeburg”
http://nashvillepubliclibrary.org/wishingchair/about-wishing-chair/
