'''Albrecht Roser''' (21 May 1922 in Friedrichshafen, Germany<ref name="Billington, M p.163">Billington, M, ''Performing Arts: A Guide To Practice And Appreciation'', p.163</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.freie-musikschule.de/html/albrecht_roser.html |title=Albrecht Roser |access-date=2011-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426043334/http://www.freie-musikschule.de/html/albrecht_roser.html |archive-date=2011-04-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref> – 17 April 2011<ref>http://www.swr.de/kultur/-/id=3270/did=7940750/pv=video/nid=3270/yuf67p/ {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>) was a German master puppeteer<ref name="Baird, B p.193">Baird, B, ''The Art of the Puppet'', p.193</ref> based in Stuttgart, Germany.
==Background and artistic contribution== Roser has made a major contribution working with marionettes. He first came to public attention in 1951 with his marionette, ''Clown Gustaf''.<ref name="Baird, B p.193"/><ref>Baird, B, ''The Art of the Puppet'', p.206</ref> Another of his characters, ''Grandmother'', is outwardly charming but savagely humorous in her observations about all aspects of society and the absurdities of life.<ref name="Billington, M p.163"/>
Roser has toured worldwide with resounding success. He has made 7 tours through Asia and Australia and 17 tours in North and South America.<ref name="Baird, B p.193"/> A large number of his tours were organised with assistance from the German Cultural Institute.
In 1977, Roser was invited to spend a semester as guest artist at the University of Connecticut, United States of America, by the Department of Puppetry. In 1983 he established the Figurentheaterschule Stuttgart, a school for puppetry at the Conservatory for Music and the Dramatic Arts, where he was professor and head of the department.
Roser's work was admired by master puppeteer Jim Henson, who included Roser as the featured subject of one of his ''The World of Puppetry'' specials. '' The World of Puppetry with Albrecht Roser'' (1985)]/ref> Roser later made occasional appearances as a featured guest puppeteer on the PBS series ''Between the Lions''.
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==References== *{{cite book | last = Baird | first = Bil | authorlink = Bil Baird | title = The Art of the Puppet | publisher = Bonanza Books | year= 1973 | location = New York }} *{{cite book | last = Billington | first = Michael | authorlink = Michael Billington (critic) | title = Performing Arts: A Guide To Practice And Appreciation | publisher = New Burlington Books | year= 1988 | location = London | isbn= 1-85348-115-7}}
==External links== *[http://www.albrecht-roser.de/00032.html Albrecht Roser and his marionettes] *[http://129.2.17.93/digital/henson/video.jsp?pid=umd:1123 ''The World of Puppetry with Albrecht Roser'']{{Dead link|date=October 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} *[http://www.sagecraft.com/puppetry/schools/index.html Professor Albrecht Roser] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303205110/http://www.huntermarionettes.com/resource/Roser.htm Photos of Albrecht Roser manipulating his marionettes] *[http://www.goethe.de/kue/the/thm/iub/en2016651.htm Information from the Goethe Institut, Germany on the work of students of Professor Albrecht Roser] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201340/http://www.huntermarionettes.com/resource/wisdom.htm Quotes on puppetry from Albrecht Roser, Third International String Puppetry Institute held at the University of Connecticut, August 1998]
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