Since 1992, Synergura, the well-known International Festival of the art of puppetry, has been a cultural highlight for theatre-goers from Thuringia and its state capital Erfurt, plus guests from further afield and theatre specialists from all over the world.

Theater Waidspeicher with the Artistic and Managing Director Sibylle Tröster is the host of the biennial festival.

The next International Puppet Theatre Festival Synergura will take place in 2026.

Contact:
Theater Waidspeicher e.V.
E-Mail: sekretariat@waidspeicher.de

Participating artists since 2012

Ariel Doron (Israel) | Avital Dvory Visual Theatre Group (Israel) | Blind Summit Theatre (United Kingdom) | Bolshoy Puppet Theatre St. Petersburg (Russia) | Cie Focus & Cie Chaliwaté (Belgium) | Cie l’Alinéa (France) | Christian Georg Fuchs (Germany) | Clair de Lune Théâtre (Belgium) | Compagnie Bagages de Sable (France) | Compagnie Le Pilier des Anges (France) | Compagnie Gare Centrale (Belgium) | Compagnie Les Voisins - Die Nachbarn (Germany) | Continuo Theatre (Czech Republic) | Das Papiertheater (Germany) | Drak Theatre (Czech Republic) | Ensemble Materialtheater (Germany) | Familie Flöz (Germany) | Figurentheater Margrit Gysin (Switzerland) | figuren theater tübingen (Germany) | flunker produktionen (Germany) | Javier Aranda (Spain) | La Compagnie á (France) | Laia RiCa (El Salvador/Germany) | Lichtbende (Netherlands) | Livsmedlet (Finland) | Lutz Großmann (Germany) | Manufaktor (Germany) | Maribor Puppet Theatre (Slowenia) | Michèle Anne De Mey, Jaco Van Dormael et le Collectif Kiss & Cry (Belgium) | Mini Teater (Slovenia) | Naivní Theatre Liberec (Czech Republic) | NBprojects (Netherlands) | Numen Company (Germany) | Odradek/Compagnie Pupella-Noguès (France) | Polina Borisova (France) | Plexus Polaire/Yngvild Aspeli (France/Norway) | Puppet Theatre Ljubljana (Slovenia) | Samuel Koch and Robert Lang (Germany) | Sandglass Theater (USA) | Sofie Krog Teater (Denmark/Spain) | Stuffed Puppet / Neville Tranter (Netherlands) | Taiyuan Puppet Theatre Company (Taiwan) | TAMTAM objektentheater (Netherlands) | Talking Object Theatre (Israel) | Tanztheater Erfurt e.V. | Thalias Kompagnons (Germany) | Teater Blik (Denmark) | Theater des Lachens (Germany) | Theater Erfurt (Germany) | Théâtre Incliné (Canada) | Théâtre du Chemin Creux (France) | Théâtre Octobre Brüssel (Belgium) | Theater, Oper und Orchester GmbH Halle, Puppentheater Halle (Germany) | Theater Tenj Moskau (Russia) | Theater Waidspeicher (Germany) | The Last Great Hunt (Australia) | The Train Theater (Israel) | The Turku International Puppetry Connection (Finland) | TJP Strasbourg (France) | Trickster-p (Switzerland) | Trio Gottschalk - Mürle - Soehnle (Germany) | Unterwasser Theatre Company (Italy) | Vélo Théâtre (Frankreich) | Viktor Antonov (Russia) | Ulrike Quade Company (Netherlands) | WHS & Sungsoo Ahn Pick-up Group (Finland/Republic of Korea) | Xavier Bobés (Spain) | | Yael Rasooly (Israel) | Yael Rasooly und Yaara Goldring (Israel) | Yeung Faï (Hongkong/France)