A hole is sometimes round, but now it’s even rounder! We have revised the dramaturgy of our 2015 production A hole in the air and everywhere. The play is now also accessible to blind and visually impaired audiences, who can hear a specially written dialogue that makes the “loud” thoughts of the two actors on stage audible. Together with the sounds generated and reproduced live, this creates a unique audio play.
It can be seen and heard at the end of September at the Schaubude Berlin and at the end of November at the FELD – Theater für junges Publikum, Berlin.
Electric Shadows is playing at the Alpe Adria Puppet Festival in Gorizia, Italy!
Rawums (:) will be performed in October at the SpielFormen – Festival der bewegten Figuren in Esslingen and at the FITZ Stuttgart.
A Quarter to Night will be shown in Villach, Austria, and on 1 November, Halloween, at the FITZ Stuttgart.
BIG BOX & small orchestra will be performed in December at the Theater Stadelhofen in Zurich, Switzerland, where we will also give a concert with the 24 Volt Orchester.
All Dates
We are delighted about the two-year basic funding in 2024 and 2025 from the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion!
Accessibility of our shows:
All shows by florschütz & döhnert invite the audience to experience theater with their individual prior experience and abilities. The productions work without words and are visually comprehensible. The associative visual language is open to people of all ages! Beyond language skills, the productions offer a “reading” between the lines and complex sensory impressions on several levels, which can be experienced according to ability.
The resonance from deaf and hard of hearing people, people with limited mobility, cognitive and mental impairments and other disabilities reflects good barrier-free access.
Ein Loch ist meistens rundTheatre for children aged 4+
Ein Loch ist meistens rund
Un petit trou de rien du tout
A hole in the air and everywhere
„Have you ever sawed a hole? And then? Was it gone? “ Imagine suddenly large and small black holes opening up everywhere and then just as suddenly disappearing again. These mysterious holes seem to be just waiting to be seen, heard, and played with. Melanie Florschütz and Michael Döhnert take their audience on an expedition into the realm of fantasy. They ingeniously develop three-dimensionality from two-dimensionality and play with sensory illusions. With anything but holes and a lot of humour, a space full of possibilities and impossibilities opens up. “A hole in the air and everywhere” shows how amusing it is to approach a phenomenon with curiosity and let your imagination run wild.
Not a word is spoken on stage, but noises and sounds trigger many fantasies because when you look into a dark hole, you can’t see anything. Blind and visually impaired audience members hear a specially written dialogue that makes the “loud” thoughts of the two actors on stage audible. Together with the sounds generated and reproduced live, this creates a unique audio play.
Theatre, Magic, Objects
Without spoken language – we offer a live audio track for blind and visually
impaired people and a tactile tour upon advance reservation
Premiere of the revival after dramaturgical revision of the 2015 production: 2025, SCHAUBUDE BERLIN
Production: florschütz & döhnert
Coproduction: ROTONDES Luxembourg, Brotfabrik Bonn
Support: SCHAUBUDE BERLIN
Funded by: Funded by: Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion,
Bezirksamt Pankow von Berlin and Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V.
Artistic collaboration and Light: Joachim Fleischer
Idea, scenography, objects, play:
Melanie Florschütz and Michael Döhnert
Scene painter: Wolf Dieckmann
Costume designer: Adelheid Wieser
Advice of magic tricks: Andreas Meinhardt
Dialogue text of the audio track for blind and visually impaired people: Laurence Barbasetti alias Ermacova, M. Döhnert, M. Florschütz
Next date:
| 21.11.2025 | FELD – Theater für junges Publikum, Berlin |
The revival was made possible by basic funding and revival funding from the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion
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a quarter to nightTheatre for children aged 3+
A quarter to night
Theatre with objects, figures and music
without spoken language
Duration: 35 minutes
Recommended age for groups: 3-6 years
New theatre show in 2024!
When the night comes, you dream with your eyes closed … and sometimes with them open! Is there a colorful carpet dancing? What’s floating majestically across the stage, like a diva? Isn’t there a little yellow something scurrying around? … shy, confused, funny, amusing, and high-spirited?
With fabulous visual and acoustic ideas, the duo florschütz & döhnert play with the imaginations of people young and old. Sometimes all it takes is a piece of fabric to create fascinating worlds in which absurd, astonishingly lively, and freedom-loving creatures are brought to life on the border between dream and reality.
Collective creation: Michael Döhnert, Joachim Fleischer, Melanie Florschütz
Artistic collaboration and light: Joachim Fleischer
Scenography, objects, play: Michael Döhnert, Melanie Florschütz
Live music and composition: Michael Döhnert
Costume designer: Adelheid Wieser
Credits
Production: florschütz & döhnert
Coproduction: Escher Theater, internationales figuren.theater.festival Erlangen, TAK Theater Liechtenstein, Nordland Visual Theatre
Financially funded by: Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. With the support of the company ACTA as part of the Pépite residency scheme, with the financial assistance of the European Union.
World premiere: 13. April 2024 at SCHAUBUDE Berlin (DE)
Next date:
| 21.10.2025 | Bambergsaal, Villach |
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Titel Schreibschrift englFor children aged 4+
BIG BOX & small orchestra
On stage there is a big box: like a huge package, a phone booth, a work shop, an elevator, a spaceship…? There are street lights growing out of the box. A tiny conductor slides across the stage and gives the beat. A couple is dancing. A dog’s leash takes the hat off the head. The box turns over and decides to be a table…
What kind of powers are these that are putting things in motion?
Let’s follow the stories that are being moved by the objects!
Between manipulation and autonomy everything on stage starts to play with each other: the light, the music, the people and the objects. It’s the power of imagination that a box can be much more than just a box…
Theatre with objects and live music
Without words
Recommended for children between 4-8 years old,
in pre-school and primary school classes 1-4
Duration: 40-45 minutes
Production: florschütz & döhnert
Coproduction : Association Nova Villa – Festival Méli’môme,
Escher Theater, Rotondes Luxembourg, T-Werk, TAK Theater Liechtenstein, Très Tôt Théâtre, scène conventionnée Art Enfance Jeunesse – Quimper.
Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Bezirksamt Pankow von Berlin
Support: Brotfabrik Bonn, SCHAUBUDE Berlin
Idea: Michael Döhnert and Melanie Florschütz
Scenography, objects, play: Michael Döhnert and Melanie Florschütz
Artistic collaboration and light: Joachim Fleischer
Live music and composition: Michael Döhnert
Costume designer: Adelheid Wieser
Premiere: 11th september 2021 at the Schaubude Berlin
Next date:
| 10.12.2025 | Theater Stadelhofen, Zürich |
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An electromechanical family concert for everyone aged 7 and up
24 Volt Orchester
A multitude of colourful cables is transmitting electronic impulses to analogue instruments and everyday objects, thereby producing different sounds by means of clappers or membranes. A stick is striking a drum or chimes, seemingly lead by an invisible hand. With their lowest sounds, loudspeakers cause ping-pong balls to bounce and dance. There are clicks and clacks, buzzes and booms. In this small orchestra, electronic music becomes visible and can be experienced with all the senses. Michael Döhnert sings and improvises live on the guitar and his modular synthesiser. Melanie Florschütz creates sounds using various air currents and moderates the improvised live concert. Songs are being created in the moment, filling the entire room with the help of the audience.
Duration of the concert: 40 minutes or longer, depending on the audience’s mood
Recommended age: approximately 7–100 years old
By and with: Michael Döhnert and Melanie Florschütz
Production: florschütz & döhnert
Next date:
| 17.12.2025 | Theater Stadelhofen Zürich Schweiz |
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Watch our excerpt from the concert 2 on vimeo.
Titel BB open air englischFor children aged 4+
BIG BOX open-air
“BIG BOX & small orchestra” can also be performed open-air. Outdoor in the dark, we are autonomous in terms of our lighting. In the daylight we will play another version without light, only with the big box and his small electronic orchestra.
The adaptation for outdoor spaces was created in co-production with the figuren.theater.festival Erlangen. Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
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Titel Electric ShadowsTheatre for children aged 4+
Electric Shadows
This is a strange kind of machine: it rolls on and off, forwards, backwards, it shakes, it hums, it murmurs, it squeaks and it rattles like a train about to leave. Everything turns and transforms. Things as we know them start to behave strangely and develop a life of their own. Even the shadows detach themselves from the objects and go for a walk.
Welcome to a fantastic workshop that sharpens the senses!
40 minutes of rotations with light and shadows, sounds and music.
Theatre with objects and live music
Without words
Duration of the show: 40 minutes
Production: florschütz & döhnert
Coproduction: Festival Momix du Créa – Scène conventionnée jeune public d`Alsace, ROTONDES Luxembourg, Schlachthaustheater Bern Switzerland, TAK Theater Liechtenstein
Funded by: Bezirksamt Pankow von Berlin, Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., Senatskanzlei Berlin Kulturelle Angelegenheiten
Support: SCHAUBUDE BERLIN
Idea: Michael Döhnert, Joachim Fleischer, Melanie Florschütz
Artistic collaboration and light: Joachim Fleischer
Scenography, objects, play: Michael Döhnert
und Melanie Florschütz
Live music and Composition: Michael Döhnert
Scene painter: Wolf Dieckmann
Costume designer: Adelheid Wieser
Premiere: 15 September 2018 SCHAUBUDE BERLIN
Next date:
| 01.02.2026 | Vorarlberger Landestheater, Bregenz |
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Ssst!Theatre for children aged 2 and older
A trouser pocket is unfathomable.
Sometimes you may happen to find a white rabbit in there and then you have your hands full. Because, normally, these white rabbits live under a magician’s hat and they tend to appear and disappear as they please. What should you do with the rabbit?Is it supposed to eat, drink, sleep? Rubbish. – With a white rabbit like that you can only dream.
With nearly nothing but a pile of humour and music, two actors create a fascinating richness of fantasy.
Idea, scenography, play:
Michael Döhnert und Melanie Florschütz
Artistic collaboration:
Joachim Fleischer, Werner Hennrich, Hendrik Mannes
Music: Michael Döhnert
Costume designer: Adelheid Wieser
Scene painter: Wolf Dieckmann
Première: 28 th september 2012 in the SCHAUBUDE Berlin
Production: florschütz & döhnert
Coproduction with:
SCHAUBUDE BERLIN, BROTFABRIK Bonn and
Méli’môme – Reims / Festival Reims Scènes d’Europe
Funded by:
Konzeptförderung soziokulturelle Zentren NRW, gefördert durch das Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
and Kulturverwaltung des Landes Berlin.
Supported by: TRAFFO_CarréRotondes.
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For children from 2 years
A trip to the wonderland of gravity
Falling is easy.
Flying is hard.
Dreaming is fragile like an egg.
An egg wants to fly, but it should not fall down because it would break. While the egg is dreaming of flying, a man and a woman are acting out all kinds of possibilities of falling and flying in a charmingly clownish and funny way. Using pictures and words they both tell of the difference between lightness/weightlessness and weight/gravity. There are certain rules: a feather hovers, a bag slumps down. But does a house, a chair or a human being fly? Every rule has its exception. There is a lot between up and down, between heaven and earth; and poetically everything is possible, even flying.
Winner of the IKARUS Award 2008 for an extraordinary play for young audiences in Berlin. Invited to the 10th festival AugenblickMal! in Berlin as one of five best shows for children of the year 2009 in whole Germany.
Perspective: Werner Hennrich
Play, images, sound: Michael Döhnert and Melanie Florschütz
Production: florschütz & döhnert
in coproduction with Theater o.N. and SCHAUBUDE Berlin
Funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V.
Thanks to Andrea Kilian
Photographs: Thomas Ernst
Next date:
| 25.10.2025 | FITZ, Stuttgart (DE) |
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