Gretl Aicher (July 19, 1928 – March 14, 2012) was the Artistic Director of the Salzburg Marionette Theatre.
[4][5] To mark the 70th birthday of Gretl Aicher and the 85th anniversary of the Salzburg Marionette Theatre, a special exhibition of marionettes was opened at the Salzburg Hohensalzburg Fortress.
Aicher has commented on her last passion with puppetry, What, then, is the fascination of life with marionettes?
For me, it is the process of empathising with mind and soul, of feeling at one with music and movement that bring these much loved creatures to life.
The marionette makes possible undreamt of effects of dramatic imagination, which can never be achieved on the full-size "human" stage.