Honorary degree citation - Peter Schumann

By: Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer, June 2018

Mr. Chancellor, it is my honour to present to you Mr. Peter Schumann, independent theatre company founder, director, visual artist and social activist.

When he moved to New York from his native Germany in the early ’60s, Mr. Schumann and his wife Elka founded a company based in a unique theatrical language which combined his skills in painting and sculpture with drama, dance and puppetry.

Bread and Puppet Theater has been a highly prolific and original troupe, set on empowering communities. Since its early days in the anti-Vietnam war protest movement, it has brought political and experimental theatre to parades and venues small and large around the world, everywhere involving locals in its productions as performers and volunteers. And wherever they go, Sc