He received financial support from the city administration of SchwГ¤bisch GmГјnd and in 1988 an international festival for contemporary shadow theater was held there for the first time across the stage.

This lack gave Reusch the idea of вЂ‹вЂ‹founding an international festival to which only contemporary shadow theater would be invited. What was definitely missing from this innovative shadow theater was a podium, a forum on which the shadow actors could present their rousing productions to a large audience. Elements of dance, pantomime, drama, music, visual arts and architecture were included in the shadow theater. At the same time a period of exchange between the arts began (cross over). The since then relatively rigid, beauty-conscious shadow play gained dynamism, liveliness and expressive expression. The shade, the figures, the lighting, everything was put to the test. Reusch belongs to a small group of shadow actors in Europe who set out in the 1980s to research the essence of shadow, to gain new technical and artistic possibilities from shadow theater and thus to establish a specific form of European shadow theater. The trio has been invited to many international puppet theater festivals at home and abroad. Production design: sand painting and colored shadow figures (from 'Strong Women of the Bible', shadow theater sand grain) Further full-length productions were created: He found and finds a reservoir of concise values вЂ‹вЂ‹in the mythological texts, Basic principles of human existence and spiritual experience. In the following productions, Reusch also made use of biblical themes, ideas and images.

The first staging 'created and exhausted' (1982) dealt critically with the biblical creation story of the earth and its exhaustion by the hand of man. Fascinated by the artistic and technical possibilities of shadow play, he founded the GmГјnder Schatten Trio (today: Schattentheater Sandkorn) together with his sons and the jazz saxophonist Dieter Seelow. The encounter and friendship with the actor Alfred Peter Wolf brought Reusch, who since then had only played with hand figures, puppets and stick figures, in connection with the art of shadow theater. Three sons and a daughter came from the marriage with the church musician Heide Reusch. He later attended the Evangelical-Church Advanced High School in Michelbach / Bilz and studied after graduating from the University of Education in Esslingen (elective art). Even in elementary school he played puppet theater for his friends. His inclination towards the arts (music, art and theater) became apparent early on. Rainer Reusch grew up with four siblings in the rectory of Laufen (Albstadt) during the Second World War.

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