just hanging around...

Twice upon a time

Twice upon a time

was invited up to now to international festivals and
guest performances in:


  1. Lahore, Pakistan

  2. Wels, Austria

  3. Mexico City; Mexico

  4. Morelia, Mexiko

  5. Oaxaca, Mexiko

  6. Havanna, Cuba

  7. Wien, Austria

  8. Linz, Austria

  9. Istanbul, Turkey

  10. Lodz, Poland

  11. Charleville, France

  12. Mistelbach, Austria

  13. Nairobi, Kenia

  14. Meppel, Netherlands

  15. Dublin, Ireland

  16. Ried im Innkreis, Austria

  17. Brest, Belarus

  18. Hard, Austria

  19. Palermo, Italy

  20. Orenburg, Russia

  21. Moskau, Russia

  22. Subotica, Serbien

  23. Kaunas, Litauen

  24. Salzburg, Museum
    der Moderne

  25. Shanghai, China

  26. Japan: Tokio, Niigata, Nagano, Shizuoka, Kawasaki

Is there anybody up there?

Each of her fascinating string puppets is a special piece of art and performs its very own trick: the technique of the movement of the individual figure is the centre of Karin Schäfer's work - the tension between perfection and artificiality is the main fascination.


A piano player, so short-sighted, that he hardly finds his instrument; a diver, who has lost the sea, but still finds lot of fishes and other strange creatures from the ocean ground; a young female skateboard–artist, who is dominated by here own board, and many other strange but virtuous individuals are doing there best in life.


But what, if they discover, that they have no life? At least, not at there own? If they discover, that there is somebody above them? Somebody who “has all the strings in her hands"?

Irish Times, 16.9.2004

„The force, which raises us into the air, is greater than that which bounds us to the earth. Marionettes are like elves, we need the ground only to brush against.“


Heinrich von Kleist

„On the Marionette Theatre“

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