Hansjürgen Fettig

Glove and Rod Puppets

by Hansjürgen Fettig

This has been my bible and has been a constant reference for the designing of puppet movements. I [Adrian] didn’t study puppet theatre at university and so I have had to teach myself everything along the way. Fettig, by all accounts, was a grumpy man and didn’t have a fully-fledged professional theatre career, but his great passion and skill was to make and perfect direct-controlled puppets. There are lots of illustrations and diagrams and mechanisms – indispensable.

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