Torso Puppet

Test coloring for the torso puppet from our WW1 puppet play "Trench 14 - Letters from the front".


Farbtest für die Torsofigur unseres 1. WK Stück "Graben 14 - Briefe von der Front"

Trench 14 – Trailer

Teaser Trailer / Puppet play by Cirque Obscure
Stück von Figurentheater Cirque Obscure

An old man opens a box with letters from World War One and is haunted by his nightmarish memories from the "Great War".

Ein alter Mann öffnet eine Kiste mit Briefen aus dem 1. Weltkrieg und wird von seinen albtraumhaften Erinnerungen aus dem "Goßen Krieg" heimgesucht.

Trench 14 – Deathbird

Trench 14 – string marionette "Corpse 13"

Marionette for our WW1 puppet play „Trench 14“
Fadenmarionette für unser 1. Weltkriegsstück „Graben 14“

Promotion Card for "Trench 14"

Children of the Bomb

Man behind the mask

The crow puppet - head and mask in progress.

Big Head for "Trenches"

Halucination_Spiderhead

Concept drawing for WW1 puppet play "TRENCHES"

WW1 Trench . Research for puppet play

Trenches: Concept Art

Puppet Head Understructure

corps(e)13

Concept Art for "Trenches"

umbra vitae

Footwraps

In WW1 the German Army gave its soldiers footwraps instead of socks. They protected against running sore, kept warm and absorbed sweat.

WW1 Tornister

Collecting for "Trenches"

Unearthed

I started to collect original World War One items.
Important to get a feel for the materials and surfaces.

 

Fallen

Concept Art / Trenches

Crawlers

Concept Art / Trenches

The Christmas truce

The Christmas truce was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires that took place along the Western Front around Christmas of 1914, during the First World War. Through the week leading up to Christmas, parties of German and British soldiers began to exchange seasonal greetings and songs between their trenches; on occasion, the tension was reduced to the point that individuals would walk across to talk to their opposite numbers bearing gifts. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, many soldiers from both sides independently ventured into no man‘s land, where they mingled, exchanging food and souvenirs.