Peter Schumann Explained

Peter Schumann
Birth Date:11 June 1934
Birth Place:Lubin, Silesia[1]
Education:Hochschule der Bildende Kuenste, Berlin
Years Active:1963–present
Spouse:Elka Schumann
Children:5
Works:Our Domestic Resurrection Circus

Peter Schumann (born 11 June 1934) is the co-founder and director of the Bread & Puppet Theater. Born in Silesia, he was a sculptor and dancer in Germany before moving to the United States in 1961. In 1963 he founded Bread & Puppet in New York City, and in 1970 moved to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, eventually settling in Glover, Vermont, where the company still performs. Schumann's best known work is the Domestic Resurrection Circus, performed annually by the Bread and Puppet Theater until 1998. He was married to theater co-founder Elka Schumann until her death in August 2021.[2]

The Bread and Puppet Theater

Peter Schumann and his wife Elka co-founded the Bread and Puppet Theater in 1963 in New York City.[3] [4] The theater is named for its combination of puppetry shows with free freshly baked bread, generally served with a dipping sauce.[3] The company is known, according to The Buffalo News for "anarchic, noncommercial, participatory and politically charged approach to art."[3] Among the notable Bread and Puppet Theater shows directed by Schumann are "Nativity 1992", described by The New York Times as "an exemplar of performance folk art",[5] and "The Divine Reality Comedy".[6] He also participated in the Angry Arts week in January 1967.[7]

The Domestic Resurrection Circus

After Bread & Puppet's first decade in New York City, Schumann decided to take an offer from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, to become the college's first theater-in-residence.[8] After a few years, Schumann composed his first Domestic Resurrection Circus. Blending vaudeville comedy with political commentary, as well as the company's trademark giant puppets, the Circus became a tradition each summer. After Schumann moved to Glover, Vermont, in 1973, the Circuses continued. The Domestic Resurrection Circus's last year was 1998, when over 30,000 people attended. Since then, a smaller circus is performed every weekend during the summer.

Palestine exhibits

In 2007 Schumann premiered "Independence Paintings: Inspired by Four Stories" in Boston and Burlington, Vermont.[9] The series was inspired by ten days Schumann spent in the Occupied Territories of Palestine, as well as John Hersey's 'The Wall', a graphic account of the birth, development, and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany during the Jewish Holocaust. The series proved controversial, with critics labeling Schumann's works as "anti-Zionist", "anti-Semitic" and "soft-core Holocaust denial", accusations Schumann denied, stating that "I'm not saying that what's happening in Palestine is the same as what happened in Warsaw ... but it's certainly a reminder."[9] While Schumann later acknowledged that he "may have unnecessarily hurt some people's feelings" with the series, he returned in 2008 to the theme of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in his subsequent art series, "The University of Majd: The Story of a Palestinian Youth", which addresses a case of false imprisonment in Israel.[10] [11]

Published works

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Peter Schumann . ArtYard . 9 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520082626/https://artyard.org/artists/peter-schumann/ . 20 May 2022 . live.
  2. Web site: Bread and Puppet Co-Founder Elka Schumann, 85, Dies . Democracy Now! . 9 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221109190324/https://www.democracynow.org/2021/8/2/headlines/bread_and_puppet_co_founder_elka_schumann_85_dies?_ga=2.235812289.1930064662.1668019769-2145019093.1668019769 . 9 November 2022 . 2 August 2021 . Elka Schumann died Sunday [1 August 2021], surrounded by her five children and her partner Peter. . live.
  3. News: Sommer . Mark . 2008-09-05 . Bread and Puppet invites those who are willing to learn . . 2008-09-09.
  4. Web site: About B & P's 50 Year History . Bread and Puppet Theater . 9 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220622214736/https://breadandpuppet.org/about-b-ps-50-year-history . 22 June 2022 . Peter and Elka decided on the name Bread and Puppet Theater. The name stuck. The year was 1963. . live.
  5. News: Mel . Gussow . 1993-01-01 . An animal nativity of puppets . . 2008-09-09.
  6. News: La Rocco . Clauda . 2007-12-01 . No escape from reality, even for magical horses . The New York Times . 2008-09-09.
  7. Book: Neumann , Osha . Up Against the Wall Motherf**kers: A memoir of the 60s with notes for the Next Time . Seven Stories . 2008 . 978-1-58322-849-4., p. 43
  8. Brecht, Stefan. "The Bread and Puppet Theater" (1988)
  9. Picard, Ken. (September 19, 2007) Over the Wall. Seven Days. Retrieved 13 May 2008.
  10. Cook, Greg. (January 29, 2008) Going to Hell The Phoenix. Retrieved 13 May 2008.
  11. Web site: Cook . Greg . Peter Schumann's Israeli-Palestinian problem? . The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research . 9 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210622222648/https://gregcookland.com/journal/2008/02/peter-schumanns-israeli-palestinian.html . 22 June 2021 . 9 February 2008 . live.
  12. Book: Schumann, Peter . Puppen und Masken: Das Bread and Puppet Theater : ein Arbeitsbericht . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag . 1973 . 9783436017743 . de . Puppets and masks: The Bread and Puppet Theater: a work report . Perfect Paperback .
  13. Book: Schumann, Peter . Bread and Puppet Theater - THIS IS . The Janus Press . 1980.
  14. Book: Schumann . Peter . Northlight Studio Press/Bread and Puppet Theater . Schumann . Elka . Northlight Studio Press/Bread and Puppet Theater . 1983.
  15. Book: Schumann, Peter . Uprising of the Beast After the Good Life Fails . Bread & Puppet / Troll Press . 1987.
  16. Book: Schumann, Peter . White Horse Butcher . Troll Press / Bread & Puppet . 1988.
  17. Book: Schumann, Peter . Bible . Troll Press / Bread & Puppet . 1991.
  18. Schumann . Peter . Winter 1991 . The Radicality of the Puppet Theatre . TDR: The Drama Review . . 35 . 4 . 75–83 . 10.2307/1146164 . 1146164 . 29 July 2024 . JSTOR.
  19. Book: Schumann, Peter . St. Francis Preaches to the Birds . Chronicle Books . 9780811802222 . illustrated, reprint . 1 September 1992 . 29 July 2024.
  20. Book: Schumann, Peter . The old art of puppetry in the new world order . Bread & Puppet Press . 1993 . B0006QHHP4.
  21. Book: Schumann, Peter . Bread & Puppet: Green Man . Bread & Puppet Press . 1996.
  22. Book: Schumann, Peter . Life of a Squirrel . Bread and Puppet Press . 1996.
  23. Schumann . Peter . What, At the End of This Century, Is the Situation of Puppets & Performing Objects? . TDR: The Drama Review . Article . . 1 September 1999 . 43 . 3 . 56–61 . 10.1162/105420499760347324 . 29 July 2024 . Project MUSE.
  24. Book: Schumann, Peter . Planet Kasper: Comix and Tragix . Fomite . 9780983206354 . 20 November 2011 .
  25. Book: Schumann, Peter . Shatterer Book . Karma . 9781938560422 . 1 November 2013.
  26. Book: Schumann, Peter . Bread & Sentences . Fomite . 9781937677886 . 6 April 2015.
  27. Book: Schumann, Peter . Planet Kasper Volume Two: Comix & Tragix . Fomite . 9781937677190 . 13 May 2015.
  28. Book: Schumann, Peter . Faust 3 . Fomite . 9781942515555 . 13 June 2016.
  29. Book: Schumann, Peter . Theatrum Mundi . Fomite . 9781942515845 . 25 January 2017.
  30. Book: Schumann, Peter . Riot . Fomite . 9781942515937 . Fomite Interrogations: A Series of Tracts for Our Time . 30 January 2017.
  31. Book: Schumann, Peter . Life and Death of Charlotte Salomon . Fomite . 9781944388324 . 21 May 2018.
  32. Book: Schumann, Peter . We . Fomite . 9781942515777 . 28 September 2018.
  33. Book: Schumann, Peter . From the Possibilitarian Arsenal of Belligerent and Not So Belligerent Slogans . Fomite . 9781944388690 . 25 October 2018.
  34. Book: Schumann, Peter . Diagonal Man Theory + Praxis: Volume I . Fomite . 9781947917057 . 23 January 2019.
  35. Book: Schumann, Peter . Diagonal Man Theory + Praxis: Volume 2 . Fomite . 9781947917064 . 23 January 2019.
  36. Book: Schumann, Peter . A Child's Deprimer . Fomite . 9781947917262 . 25 August 2019 .
  37. Book: Schumann, Peter . Bedsheet Mitigations . Fomite . 9781947917903 . 12 August 2020.
  38. Book: Schumann, Peter . All, Nothing, Nothing At All . Fomite . 9781947917620 . 28 August 2020.
  39. Book: Schumann, Peter . Handouts and Obligations . Fomite . 9781953236258 . 13 March 2021.
  40. Book: Schumann, Peter . Declaration of Light . Fomite . 9781953236265 . 15 April 2021.
  41. Book: Schumann, Peter . Es Ist Vollbracht - Mission Accomplished . Fomite . 9781953236463 . 30 August 2021.
  42. Book: Schumann . Peter . She Sits She Rides She Flies . Schumann . Elka . Fomite . 9781953236586 . 4 December 2021.
  43. Book: Schumann, Peter . Kropotkin Says . Fomite . 9781959984313 . 25 June 2023 . en.
  44. Book: Schumann, Peter . Tears Clouds Trees . Fomite . 9781953236944 . 28 November 2023.
  45. Book: Schumann, Peter . Gaza Genocide Bedsheets . Fomite . 9781959984429 . 29 November 2023.
  46. Book: Schumann, Peter . Mister Aeschylus' The Persians . Fomite . 9781959984351 . 6 March 2024.
  47. Book: Schumann, Peter . We Possibilitarians One . Fomite . 9781959984498 . 27 May 2024.

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