We get to know the author's pets and learn about his pig that could even be a big star in the circus for knowing some tricks, the author himself has taught it. When actually a circus comes to town, there is a chance for the pig to show its artistic abilities among all the other, even more exotic animals of the circus.
Born 1939 in Hamburg;
1959-1964 studies in painting, graphics, photography;
since 1964 experimental animation films, essay and feature films with animated parts, films for children;
1970-1983 puppet and mask theatre RHUBARB;
1987-2002 professor of animation film at the HFBK Hamburg
Filmography
1966 Erlebnisse der Puppe
1967 Staub
1985 Die Anprobe
1988 Die Königin des schwarzen Marktes
1995 Der Porzellanladen
2012 Die Konferenz oder die Rückseite des Mondes
2016 Heimaturlaub – aus dem Skizzenbuch eines Astronauten
born in 1965 in Stuttgart (Germany) - in 1997 diploma and advanced studies of visual communication at the HfBK, Hamburg (Professor Franz Winzentsen and Professor Rüdiger Neumann). Production of films and videos for cinema, theatre, museum and art galleries, as director, animator, cutter, set designer, graphic designer, artist,... Lives and works in Hamburg.
Filmography
selection:
The Message (1989), Manage (1997), Das Buch des Eremiten (2004), Trooping the Colour (1994), Autokino (2002), A book of...(2000), Des Kaiser's Neue Kleider (2001), Rotkaeppchen (2010), Blaubart (2012), The Steadfast Tin Soldier (2013), Stampede (in Zusammenarbeit mit Franz Winzentsen, 2016)