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"Ben the Bear savest he Circus Pendolino" is the title of the newest play of the puppet theater Pendel from Hermuthausen. Its premiere in Ingelfingen's town hall met with great enthusiasm of the audience.
Once again Marlene Gmelin and Detlef Schmelz from the puppet theater Pendel have reached their goal: "They want to awaken the child in all of us", that's how the artist and journalist Johannes Hans A. Nickel describes the demand of the internationally renowned artists.
The mainly adult visitors are very open towards this and let themselves be enchanted by the movements of the puppets and the perfectly coordinated relaxing music composed by Gregory Charasma.
From this moment on, words are hardly necessary for communication and the performance.
The perfect movements and pantomimes of the puppets speak their own language. The spectator is taken to the magical world of the puppets that seem so much alive. The imagination of the audience can run free. Ben the Bear takes the visitors along on his journey around the world where he collects animals for his circus from every continent. One almost feels pity for them since the habitats of the animals are so cheerful and at the same time peaceful and harmonious. The elephant in the desert, the kangaroo, the koala bear, the movements of all these animals are absolutely lifelike. With bated breath the spectators see the penguin hatching out an egg.
One never gets enough of the scene in which the little polar bird feeds his offspring with fish.
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The audience laughed out loud at the coyote doing a lively exercise on the trapeze. Nickel emphasizes: "Here in Ingelfingen you have a puppet theater that would be very hard to come by anywhere else in the world."
" A well-directed puppet can express almost any emotion." (…) Spectator Gertrud Bauer from Künzelsau: "You really need to be a very special person to perceive the movements in nature that precisely."

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Mittelbadische Presse: "A time full of poetry and grace"	Achern (gat). It was a time full of poetry and both amusing and thought-provoking scenes that the puppet theater "Pendel" alias Marlene Gmelin and Detlef Schmelz played with their puppets in Achern's city theater last Saturday and Sunday, and children as well as grown-ups enjoyed themselves tremendously. Detlef Schmelz announced the scenes – sometimes a bit too solemnly perhaps – and then the two puppet players played out their "stories without words" with clown Paulchen, the fire devil, the half-dragon, the raven Hans Huckebein, the unicorn and other puppets. Making very few, but at the same time extremely precise movements, Marlene Gmelin and Detlef Schmelz directed their puppets so that the children very quickly understood what was happening on stage even though no words were spoken.

Hohenloher Zeitung: "Theater that is hard to come by" (7.2002)	"Ben the Bear savest he Circus Pendolino" is the title of the newest play of the puppet theater Pendel from Hermuthausen. Its premiere in Ingelfingen's town hall met with great enthusiasm of the audience. Once again Marlene Gmelin and Detlef Schmelz from the puppet theater Pendel have reached their goal: "They want to awaken the child in all of us", that's how the artist and journalist Johannes Hans A. Nickel describes the demand of the internationally renowned artists. The mainly adult visitors are very open towards this and let themselves be enchanted by the movements of the puppets and the perfectly coordinated relaxing music composed by Gregory Charasma. From this moment on, words are hardly necessary for communication and the performance. The perfect movements and pantomimes of the puppets speak their own language. The spectator is taken to the magical world of the puppets that seem so much alive. The imagination of the audience can run free. Ben the Bear takes the visitors along on his journey around the world where he collects animals for his circus from every continent. One almost feels pity for them since the habitats of the animals are so cheerful and at the same time peaceful and harmonious. The elephant in the desert, the kangaroo, the koala bear, the movements of all these animals are absolutely lifelike. With bated breath the spectators see the penguin hatching out an egg. One never gets enough of the scene in which the little polar bird feeds his offspring with fish. (...) The audience laughed out loud at the coyote doing a lively exercise on the trapeze. Nickel emphasizes: "Here in Ingelfingen you have a puppet theater that would be very hard to come by anywhere else in the world." " A well-directed puppet can express almost any emotion." (…) Spectator Gertrud Bauer from Künzelsau: "You really need to be a very special person to perceive the movements in nature that precisely."

Eurodoll 1996: "A visual pleasure"	"In Bregenz, people are used to spectacles. But the event that took place in the world-famous festival theater on the last weekend of September astonished not only the most critical among the audience. (…) With their creative puppets Marlene Gmelin and Detlef Schmelz very easily fascinated their audience. And they were also successful in the competition: Eurodoll Winner 1996 (puppets)".

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