European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Small entryway off a narrow Side Street in Lubeck Germany leads into a world of mystery myth and magic. Behind the Brick passageway is the museum fur Puppe theater the Marionette museum that s Home to thousands of Kings and courtesans clowns and commoners monsters and a menagerie. Of the stories they could Tell and the stories they have told. Tales of love and loss of heroism and Conquest. Stories of Asia Africa Europe and America. Before television and before movies these now aging actors brought comedy drama music and news to Public and private audiences around the world. The 600 or so figures currently on display at the museum on Kleine Peter Grube Are but a fraction of the 10,000 figures and artefacts in the museum collection says Helge Werle Burger the museum curator. The continuously changing display currently includes rare european and chinese stages graced with elaborately costumed figures Shadow puppets from India hand carved balinese animals and a wide variety of other Marionette theater figures and artefacts. The collection is the work of Fritz Fey jr., a Hamburg television cameraman whose father founded the Marionette theater across the Street from the museum. The younger Fey adds to the Collet Tion pieces he finds during his travels around the world shooting television documentaries. Marionette theater was the film and television of earlier Ages Werle Burger says. It served the same purposes a to inform and entertain and to reflect the world for each generation she says. Affluent european families would buy theater sets continued on Page i i above a Shadow puppet from Karn Ataka in Southwest India. At left an Oriental  photos by Gus Schuettler november 2h. To i i stripes Mazarine 7 7