A crime thriller that crosses time, with a murder mystery that takes place in Queen Semiramidae's Babylon, solved by a modern detective.

Stage/production: Self-designed stage with rolling backdrop. Music and sound are original compositions.

Language: English; Approx. duration: 25 minutes; Recommended age: 8+, for adults

The popular film classic in 120-year-old paper theatre decorations, in colour and 3D.

The successful writer Hans Pfeiffer has never attended school as he was taught by a tutor. His friends persuade him to make up for this experience. And so one day, Hans Pfeiffer stands in the schoolyard of a time-honoured grammar school disguised as a pupil. He soon becomes the biggest lout in the school, embarrassing the teachers with his pranks ...

Language: German; duration: 40 minutes; age recommendation: 6+

Scotland, August 1882,
When Miss Helena Campbell reads about an extraordinary physical phenomenon in the newspaper, there's no stopping her: Helena and her two uncles set off on a journey through Scotland's wilderness to see the legendary green flash with their own eyes. Not only does the weather keep throwing a spanner in the works, Helena also has to get rid of her know-it-all admirer! After a wild tour along the coast, the adventure finally ends at the legendary Fingals Cave.
Hellriegel's Junior brings Jules Verne's little-known work ‘The Green Flash’ to the paper theatre stage for the first time. A real Verne-style adventure is combined with a wonderful love story about Helena and an unknown artist.

Stage/production: Self-designed, closed play. Spoken live and with live music.

Language: German; Approx. duration: 40 minutes; Age recommendation: 7+

Day in, day out, for over half a millennium, Mona Lisa has been marvelled at, admired, coveted and scrutinised. But have you ever put yourself in her shoes? Does she even want to see what she sees every day? Her urge to leave the framework that has limited her perspective so far and enter our world is more than understandable. A world in which perhaps not everything is always what it promises to be. But at least it's a new world, from a new perspective.

Stage/production: self-designed stage and characters, live, new production

Language: German; Approx. duration: 40 minutes; Age recommendation: 10 years and older

The development of artificial intelligence in recent years makes The Greatest Enigma and the story of Anica and Benjamin and their fight against machines even more relevant than when the famous Danish author Svend Åge Madsen wrote the book in 1982.

Once it was the machines that ruled, but then a metal plague broke out that put them out of action.

But - shortly before that, the last computer developed the four substances that make up human DNA, which are not metal.

It is this code that Anica and Benjamin track down and try to solve in a race against time and the computer INGOL.

But they have been given a weapon - unknown to the computer.

Stage/production: Traditional paper theatre stage with wide cover, set to original music

Language: German; Approx. duration: 30 minutes; Age recommendation: 10 years and older

An adaptation of three tales of the Colombian author Triunfo Arciniégas.

Stage/production: self-designed, open stage, self-composed music

Language: English and Spanish; Approx. duration: 35 minutes; Age recommendation: 10 years and older

The main characters in this play are historical figures from Ukraine whose aim was to connect Kiev and Europe: Yaroslav the Wise, Grand Duchess Ingigerda, Princess Olga, Anna, Agatha, Anastasia and Elizabeth. The aim of the stage is to distract the inhabitants of Kiev from the complexity of today and to give them hope. We are delighted that the theatre is also sharing its play with us in Preetz. The script was written by Fedir Balandin, the author of a well-known theatre play about the fate of Anna Kyivska's daughter Edigna, who later became a saint in Bavaria.

Stage/production: Self-designed stage, based on ancient frescoes and monuments of Kiev.

Language: English/German; Approx. duration: 25 minutes; Recommended age: 8+, for adults

The play shows the developments at the West German embassy in Prague in autumn 1989.

At the time, more and more people from the GDR were gathering in the embassy and its garden, hoping for the opportunity to leave for West Germany. The situation continued to escalate, while politicians in the background tried to resolve the situation. But it seemed hopeless.

Based on original documents, the events of September 1989 are reconstructed in fragments.

Stage/staging: Open table-top stage and peep-box, designed and staged in-house; performed live - with sound recordings

Language: German; Approx. duration: 40 minutes; Age recommendation: 12+, for adults

A Norwegian fairy tale

The youngest daughter of a very poor family goes to a lonely castle with a polar bear to help her family become rich. After a while, she loses confidence in her own judgement. She discovers that the polar bear is a prince and at the same time loses him to the troll princess in the castle east of the sun and west of the moon. She sets off on a very long journey to find the prince again. But nobody knows where the castle is...

Stage/production: self-designed, open stage. original play without technical features, but with live music from the cello.

Language: German; Approx. duration: 35 minutes; Age recommendation: from 6 years

Gaspar, the miller's son, is lucky enough to be going to the debutante ball at the palace of Biscainhos and has a tricky cat to accompany him. Gaspar only asks her to take the shortest route, but the cat has a knack for finding the longest one.
Using the technique of paper theatre, we immerse ourselves in the universe of the baroque fairy tale. A rhapsody that seems to leave no enchanted character out.

Stage/production: self-designed stage with modern technology; soundtrack

Language: Portuguese; Approx. duration: 45 minutes; Age recommendation: from 8 years

Based on the version of the fairytale written by Charles Perrault in the seventeenth century. A lively and upbeat colourful adaptation about an anthropomorphic (having human characteristics) cat who cleverly avoids being eaten by his master (a poor and hungry Miller's son) by persuading him to give him a pair of boots and a bag to catch rats. He then uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth and eventually the hand in marriage of a princess for his master. Includes trick paper figures, exciting sound effects, atmospheric music and live narration.

Stage/Staging: Traditional slot theatre. Self made theatre with LED lighting, self designed and self made figures and scenery. Contemporary colourful style

Language: English; Duration: 20 minutes; Age recommendation: for all

When Adrian goes for a run around the lake on Tuesday instead of Monday, he feels strangely attracted to one of the many female runners. When he sees her again on Friday, he decides to change his running days ... The encounter turns out differently than he had imagined.
A modern urban relationship drama.

Stage/production: Own composition, self-designed stage; live spoken, music ensemble Lili-Schultz

Language: German; Approx. duration: 40 minutes; Age recommendation: from 10 years

Prospero, Prince of Milan, escapes the solitude of his palace by means of a flying machine invented by Leonardo. He meets Ariel, the air spirit. Together they fly over their old island on their way east. Caliban, the ogre, proclaims a supposed golden age there. A storm takes the travellers to the Athenian forest. Riots rage there. The women revolt against the men, the craftsmen against the duke and his war plans. To make matters worse, Caliban appears with a strange troupe of women. Gods, ghosts and men.... disaster takes its course. A show that naturally cannot do without music.

Stage/production: Own stage design with revolving stage, open front - live

Language: German; Duration: 45 minutes; Age recommendation: for adults

In 1307, the bailiff Hermann Gessler and his brothers in arms rule over Altdorf in Switzerland.
His excesses mean that William Tell can no longer tolerate this Austrian rule.  His son Walter, who has been taken hostage, will be the catalyst for the revolt.  The famous incident with the crossbow and the apple is depicted and staged as paper theatre.
Between one part of the submissive population and another part of the revolted, a tremendous storm on the lake will he succeed in liberating his country?

Stage/staging: self-designed stage and figures, live

Language: German (French); Approx. duration: 40 minutes; Age recommendation: all, including families

She doesn't know what it means, the Loreley, who sinks Rhine ships with her song and golden crest. Then she meets the beluga Rheinhold in the river, who is in search of the legendary Rhine gold.
They take a liking to each other and set off on their search together. The Nibelungen saga and the Song of the Nibelungs provide them with unexpected clues. It turns out that Loreley is actually called Siegried because she is a descendant of the warrior Siegfried.
On their journey, they encounter a mysterious water dwarf. He is a descendant of the fairy king Alberich and knows verses from the Song of the Nibelungs that were ‘never sung’, but which help them on their journey.
The myth of the old heroic saga and the allusions hidden in it, which inspire the imagination, describe a treasure hunt that is not only exciting, but also ends surprisingly.

Stage/production: Own composition with live music and play

Language: German; Duration: 45 minutes; Age recommendation: 12 years and older

A fairytale with a happy ending.

Stage/production: traditional English paper theatre; colourful and with simple dialogues

Language: English; Duration: 30 minutes; Age recommendation: from 3 years