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It takes years to become an expert at the Salzburg Marionette Theatre.

The puppeteers need to learn how to move their puppets with great skill.

Perhaps that's why this famous theatre is a UNESCO site.

It's seen as having an important cultural position in the world.

Puppeteer Edouard Funck comes from Paris.

As a child, he fell in love with puppets and in 2011, he got the chance to start working here.

But being a puppeteer isn't just about working the puppets.

100 years ago, the theatre was started by Anton Aicher.

He created a special 'crossbar' which is joined to the puppet by 11 strings.

It helps to move the puppets so that they appear real.

Some of the puppets are more complicated.

They can require five people to make them work.

The puppets' performance stays in people's minds.

A puppet show on this Salzburg stage was Ilse Laubbichler's first theatre experience.

She went there as a child and the memory's stayed with her.

Now, she wants her grandchildren to experience the magic.

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