Melissa Stock
puppeteer and actress
Melissa Stock was born in Dresden in 2000. She is a student of Contemporary Puppetry at the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts (Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch" in Berlin). Before that, she completed a voluntary cultural year at tjg. theater junge generation in Dresden. She will graduate from "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2023 with a diploma. “Fiete and the Sea" in the 2023/2024 season was her freelance diploma as a puppeteer.
In the 2024/25 season she appears in:
Der standhafte Zinnsoldat (The Steadfast Tin Soldier)
Fiete und das Meer (Fiete and the Sea)
Gold Macht Liebe Tod - Das Nibelungenlied (Gold Power Love Death - The Song of the Nibelungs)
Iphigenie Königskind (Iphigenia, King's Child)
Krabat (Krabat)
Die zertanzten Schuhe (The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces)
Tierische Briefe (Animal Letters)
Karoline Vogel
puppeteer and actress
Karoline Vogel was born in Wittenberg in 1986. She studied at the Faculty of Puppetry at the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts (Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch" in Berlin). She performed in productions at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin and the Cabaret Theater "Distel" in Berlin.
Since the season 2014/2015 she has been a member of Theater Waidspeicher ensemble. Since then, she has appeared on stage in numerous productions, including “King Lear”, “The Wooden Horse”, “My Slightly Strange Friend Walter”, and “Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow”.
She also works freelance as dubbing actors.
In the season 2024/2025 she appears in:
Nußknacker und Mausekönig (The Nutcracker and the Mouse King)
Der Maulwurf und die Sterne (Mole's Star)
Rumpelstilzchen (Rumpelstiltskin)
Der standhafte Zinnsoldat (The Steadfast Tin Soldier)
Gold Macht Liebe Tod - Das Nibelungenlied (Gold Power Love Death – The Song of the Nibelungs)
Die zertanzten Schuhe (The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces)
Fesche Lola, brave Liesel (Pretty Lola, Pleasant Liesel)
Der Hase und der Igel (The Hare and the Hedgehog)
Heinrich Bennke
puppeteer and actor
Heinrich Bennke was born in Schwerin in 1987. He graduated from the Faculty of Puppetry at the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts (Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch" in Berlin). He performed with the "Berliner Ensemble" and with the Cabaret Theater "Distel" in Berlin. Since the season 2013/14 he has been a member of Theater Waidspeicher ensemble, where he has appeared in over 20 productions since then.
He also works freelance as dubbing actors.
In the season 2024/2025 he appears in:
Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln (Atlas of Remote Islands)
Gold Macht Liebe Tod - Das Nibelungenlied (Gold Power Love Death - The Song of the Nibelungs)
Iphigenie Königskind (Iphigenia, King's Child)
Krabat
Pinocchio
Fesche Lola, brave Liesel (Pretty Lola, Pleasant Liesel)
Der Hase und der Igel (The Hare and the Hedgehog)
Paul S. Kemner
puppeteer and actor
Paul Kemner, the son of dancer Claudia Hanfgarn and actor Martin Kemner, appeared as a child in “Waiting for Godot”, “The Who's - Tommy” and “Give me the juice”. After leaving school, he completed a business studies course and began studying computer science. During this time, he worked as an extra and supporting actor and made his own short film. In 2019, he began studying at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, Department of Contemporary Drama, which he successfully completed in 2024. During the 2024/25 season he is engaged at Theater Waidspeicher.
In the season 2024/2025 he appears in:
Tierische Briefe (Animal Letters)
Der gestiefelte Kater (Puss in Boots)
Angstmän (Panicman)
Tomas Mielentz
puppeteer and actor
Tomas Mielentz was born in Meißen in 1966. After finishing an apprenticeship and working as a fitter for locomotives he studied scenery and puppetry. He graduated from the Faculty of Puppetry at the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts, (Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch" in Berlin). Tomas Mielentz has been working at Theater Waidspeicher since 1995. He has been performing in more than 80 productions for children and adults since then.
„Tom Thumb“ in the 2021/2022 season was his debut as a puppetry director at Theater Waidspeicher, followed by “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” in the 2022/2023 season.
In the 2023/2024 season he will be the director of “Fiete and the Sea”.
In the season 2024/25 he appears in:
Gold Macht Liebe Tod - Das Nibelungenlied (Gold Power Love Death - The Song of the Nibelungs)
Krabat
Nußknacker und Mausekönig (The Nutcracker and the Mouse King)
Pinocchio
Rumpelstilzchen (Rumpelstiltskin)
Fesche Lola, brave Liesel (Pretty Lola, Pleasant Liesel)
Tierische Briefe (Animal Letters)