Theater
Hänneschen-Theater
Rod-puppet stage where performers stay hidden below a wooden balustrade, with a resident cast dating to eighteen oh two.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Hänneschen-Theater in Cologne starts at the low wooden rail along the front of the stage, the Britz, and the rule that governs everyone behind it. It goes back to the winter of 1802 and a journeyman tailor from Bonn named Johann Christoph Winters, who needed money, and to the red-haired character he gave the city a year later. You'll also meet a rival showman across the Rhine in Deutz and the squinting figure he put on his own stage. Best heard with the stage in view.
This audio guide was created using AI.