The biblical motif is varied through colours, structures and shades. The graphic artist and puppet player Sabine Meienreis makes different materials and graphic elements correspond to each other and the music.
A young man and a young woman want to be together but, unwilling to take risks, hurry in the wrong direction.
An adaptation of Alfred Könner’s eponymous children’s book by the illustrator Eva Šalamoun, who was well-known in the Czech Republic, too.
Once an argument has escalated, the original cause is of next to no concern. Or why are these two men fighting so doggedly over a comb?
An adaptation of Friedrich Wolf’s story of a beautiful seagull and a young woodpecker, an unequal couple who have trouble finding their place.
A picturesque film about an ardent search whose outcome is uncertain.
After the fierce controversy surrounding his exceptional film “Einmart”, the DEFA Studio obliged Lutz Dammbeck to make a children’s film. The result is a poem about yearning and escape – followed by a successful theatrical release.
Designing this adaptation of the eponymous Chilean song was Maja Nagel’s introduction to working with animation.
Daddy rooster and mummy hen are mortified, but there’s no denying it: their brood argue all the time. The couple are even more desperate since their neighbours’ children sit quietly and well-behaved with their parents.
An orgiastic comedy about a butterfly, a couple of beautiful lady dragonflies and a love-hungry snail. Working with the medium of film was a liberation from realism for the performance artist Helge Leiberg.
Rock rhythms breathe dancing life into a cube. Thomas Stephan let various musicians interpret his movement studies of a cube.
Graphic artist Gudrun Trendafilov was a young graduate of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts when she drew and animated this film about a frenzied two-humped camel all by herself.
A fast-paced adaptation of the eponymous novel by Georg Weerth about the (amourous) adventures of a Prussian-Silesian country squire who turns into a slanderer and forger.
A parable on environmental pollution. The sirens were designed and drawn by Helge Leiberg, who considered this a regular commissioned work.
The visual quality and content of animator Wolf-Ulrich Reichel’s scenario had tempted graphic artist and cartoonist Rainer Schade. This metaphor on the wall had been greenlighted by the Studio management only after repeated submissions. At the end of the shooting they almost revised their decision.
This adaptation of a Burmese fairytale about the potential side effects of a fit of envy launched a fruitful artistic partnership between puppet animator Kurt Weiler and opera director Achim Freyer.
