Elka Schumann (Bread and Puppet Theater co-founder and stalwart) died Sunday surrounded by her immediate family. The larger family she and her husband, Peter, grew around them is too large to fit into ...
Elka Schumann standing beside a sculpture of her made by her future husband, Peter Schumann, in Hanover, Germany, in 1958 Credit: Courtesy Elka Schumann (August 29, 1935-August 1, 2021) was born to a ...
Elka Schumann, whose personal and artistic partnership with her husband, Peter, was a guiding force of Bread and Puppet Theater for almost 60 years, died on Sunday. She was 85. Her death, at North ...
Elka Schumann, a pivotal figure in Bread and Puppet Theater and the wife of the theater company’s founder, Peter Schumann, died yesterday at North Country Hospital in Newport after a massive stroke.