What the Rhinoceros Saw When It Looked Over the Fence

What the Rhinoceros Saw When It Looked Over the Fence

by Jens Raschke
puppet theatre for 9 year olds and older

Director: Matthias Thieme
Stage design and costumes: Mila van Daag | Puppets: Merle Smalla
Composition and Sound: Jonas Wolter and Sebastian Bode
Cast:  Mo-Elia Stock, Heinrich Bennke, Paul S. Kemner, Tomas Mielentz
Directing internship: Maricel Polixa, Anton Ole Zang

Premiere: 26 September 2025, at 7:30 p.m.

Beyond the limits of humanity

There is a zoo near Weimar from where the animals can look out onto a strange area. A large chimney smokes there, and there are two kinds of people - striped and booted. Submissive order reigns in the zoo and none of the animals want to bother themselves with what is happening on the other side of the fence.

Jens Raschke‘s award-winning play tells of the events in the Buchenwald concentration camp from the surprising perspective of its zoo animals.

The realisation of this production is supported by the Sparkassenstiftung Erfurt.
Performance rights: Theaterstückverlag im Drei Masken Verlag GmbH München