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

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The duo florschütz & döhnert has created a small orchestra that generates rhythms with its own sounds as if by magic. A small stick sets the beat like a conductor. A drumstick whizzes through the air without any echo. When a drum is carefully added, it begins to groove audibly. Loudspeaker membranes bounce and buzz. In the beat of “Klick Klack Knurpsel” electric guitar melodies and soundscapes rise up, inviting you to dream.

Duration: approx. 35 minutes

By and with: Michael Döhnert and Melanie Florschütz

Production: florschütz & döhnert

Von und mit: Michael Döhnert und Melanie Florschütz

Produktion: florschütz & döhnert

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Watch our excerpt from the concert 1 on vimeo.
Watch our excerpt from the concert 2 on vimeo.

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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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

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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?“
florschütz & döhnert are researching the phenomenon of holes. They are making holes. The more holes they are making, the bigger the possibilities that are surprisingly opening up. This is because a hole is a door that leads elsewhere: a tiny hole is enough to make you an explorer. With a good sense of humour florschütz & döhnert start out on an expedition into the realm of imagination. They are playing with dimensions and with the illusion of it. A magic theatre play, mysteriously and exciting as a detective story, with lots of space for the important aspects of holes: you can’t really grasp it.

Theatre. Magic. Objects
Without words

Premiere: 12th september 2015 at SCHAUBUDE Berlin

Production: florschütz & döhnert
Coproduction: ROTONDES Luxembourg, Brotfabrik Bonn
Support: SCHAUBUDE BERLIN
Funded by: Senatskanzlei Berlin, Kulturelle Angelegenheiten;
Bezirksamt Pankow von Berlin and Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V.

Artistic collaboration and Lightdesign: 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

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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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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



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