The Puppeteer

Once there was a puppeteer who traveled the lands with modest success. He could barely stay afloat until he met a talking wooden puppet. He was able to persuade her to perform with him and thus unexpectedly rose to fame. One morning he woke up and the wooden puppet was gone, along her all the earnings. The desperate puppeteer tried to carve a talking puppet himself, but all his efforts seemed to be in vain. Then, the once so friendly puppeteer hatched a cruel plan – instead of lifeless wood, real people should from now on be the material for his puppet show. So he settled down in Dortmund, his last performance location, to look out for suitable victims. And the first group of spectators who entered the puppeteer's theater was never seen again…