“When grandfather Fritz was as old as me, he tamed a wolf. My grandmother Charlotte wanted to be an opera singer and became a hairdresser. Grandfather Oskar left her because he loved Irene, a trollop. When I was seven, I packed my things and moved in with grandmother Lila and grandfather Ruben. Grandfather Ruben used to be a handsome man, now he’s bald. When grandmother let her hair down, it would hang down long and thin, just like a fairy. Or just like a ghost. Grandmother shrinks, I grow.” In “Damit ich dich besser sehen kann” (All the better to see you with) three grandchildren rummage around in old family albums and discover their grandparents. Stories of days gone by and of today, familiar and strange, snapshots of a long life. Scenes are re-enacted at great speed and with such exuberant imagination, that it is great fun – not just for the kids! 

WITH Frida Leon Béraud, Frauke Jacobi, Julius Griesenberg DIRECTION Beatrix Bühler MUSIC Simon Hostettler PHOTO Bernhard Fuchs INTERNET www.dalang.ch

Dalang Puppencompany
Frida Leon Béraud (actress) and Frauke Jakobi (musician) both studied puppetry at the «Ernst Busch» Drama College in Berlin. After gaining experience in direction, writing, scenography (Frauke Jakobi) and acting, street and movement theatre (Frida Leon Béraud), they founded the Dalang Puppencompany in 2004.