The Man Who Wanted to Be a Flower
by Anja Tuckermann
puppet theatre for 4 year olds and older
Director: Heinrich Bennke | Set: Tomas Mielentz
Costume: Tomas Mielentz and Kathrin Sellin
Puppets: Kathrin Sellin | Composition and Sound: Andres Böhmer
Premiere: 29 August 2026, at 3:00 p.m.
Growing Into Heaven Through Wishes
A man lives alone in a grey house, going about his daily grey routine.
One day, it is no longer enough for him to simply be a man. And slowly, the desire to become a flower grows within him. In his imagination, he stands in a meadow and opens his sepals to the sun. The wind rocks him, and bumblebees and butterflies swarm around his vibrant petals. In increasingly vivid dreams, he transforms into a yellow buttercup and a silky-soft poppy, he becomes a large garden, lime blossom high up in the treetops, and a solitary blue mountain flower. As he dreams, the little grey man grows ever more self-assured and finally manages to bring the colours of the flowers into his life.
‘The Man Who Wanted to Be a Flower’ is a story about the power of wishes and the possibility of becoming whoever you want to be.
The Snow Queen
by Hans Christian Andersen
puppet theatre for 7 year olds and older
Director: Kristine Stahl | Designs: Nadine Wottke
Composition und Sound: Kinbom & Kessner
Premiere: 13 November 2026, at 7:30 p.m.
About Forgetting and Rediscovery
Kay and Gerda are like brother and sister and are devoted to each other. In the evenings, her grandmother tells them about the Snow Queen, who freezes people’s hearts to ice. One day, a shard of a magic mirror gets into Kay’s eye and, unwillingly, he follows the Snow Queen into her kingdom. Gerda sets out to search for her friend. On her way north, she falls under the spell of a sorceress and into the clutches of a band of robbers. But she also finds allies. Two crows, a young royal-couple, a robber girl, and a reindeer all help her, enabling her to finally make her way to the Snow Queen’s palace. There, surrounded by ice, Kay faces an impossible task from which only Gerda can save him.
This timeless fairy tale for children and adults is both a thrilling adventure and, at the same time, figuratively poetic.
Pictures of Your True Love
based on the unfinished novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf | stage adaption by Matthias Thieme
puppet theatre for 14 year olds and older
Director: Matthias Thieme
Stage design and costumes: Mila van Daag
Puppets: Lili Laube | Live music: Andi Schulze
Premiere: 19 February 2027, at 7:30 p.m.
Abysses and Adventures
“Pictures of Your True Love” Wolfgang Herrndorf’s final novel, is an unfinished road-novel brimming with longing and the unexpected. The protagonist is fourteen-year-old Isa, who has escaped from the asylum and is on her way to freedom. She sleeps under the open sky, steals food, travels on foot, by boat and by hitchhiking. She overcomes dangers, meets strange people, fearlessly follows her intuition, and navigates dream-like through difficult terrain. Whilst delusion and reality are almost indistinguishable, she is sometimes lonely and sometimes happy. Whether and where the journey ends remains uncertain.
“Pictures of Your True Love” tells of madness and of growing up, and how the two sometimes coincide.
Performance rights: “Pictures of Your True Love” by Wolfgang Herrndorf is published at Rowohlt Verlag
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
puppet theatre for 14 year olds and older
Director: Moritz Sostmann
Stage design and costumes: Klemens Kühn
Puppets: Hagen Tilp und Kathrin Sellin
Composition and Musical rehearsal: Philipp Pleßmann
Premiere: 16 April 2027, at 7:30 p.m.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on
As a result of a plot by his brother, Prospero, the former Duke of Milan, is marooned on a desert island with his daughter Miranda. Thanks to his magical powers, he subjugates the island’s natural world and its inhabitants, ruling with an iron fist. When his enemies sail past the island, Prospero sends out the air spirit Ariel, who unleashes a mighty storm that capsizes the ship, and washes the conspirators onto the island’s cliffs. With skill and magic, Prospero draws all the characters into a grand spectacle. Meanwhile, Miranda and one of the shipwrecked men fall in love…
Shakespeare’s final solo-masterpiece is a story full of unsolvable puzzles. The Bard bids farewell to the theatre via his alter ego, Prospero.