Figurentheater Grashüpfer (Grashüpfer Puppet Theatre)

Whether puppet shows or marionette theatre, the family children's theatre in Treptower Park enchants its audience and takes them into the world of fairy tales and stories. Not far from Treptower Park S-Bahn station, the intimate venue with its various puppet theatres stages plays for children, young people, families and adults.

Stage programme at the Grashüpfer

The small, intimate theatre shows a varied repertoire of traditional hand puppetry, marionette, shadow and puppet theatre, created by professional puppeteers from Berlin and all over Germany. Most puppet theatre performances are for children aged 3 and 4.

Puppet making workshop for children

With imagination and creativity, children create their own puppets from paper, wood and thread in the workshop. Enchanting fairies, curious animals or imaginative mythical creatures are created. The children then stage their own puppets in small performances.

Spooky puppet theatre

Spooks, magic and black light transform the puppet theatre into a fantasy world. Children design their own costumes and dress up as ghosts or fantasy creatures. Colours and decorations glow particularly intensely under black light and various activities such as a pumpkin run, mask dance and small magic shows complete the programme.

Fairytale evenings for children and adults

A cosy campfire atmosphere, exciting stories and old and new fairy tales - the tradition of storytelling is kept alive at the fairy tale evenings for children and adults.

Fairytale walks in Treptower Park

During the fairytale walks for children, the puppets Rosalie and Bruno accompany the participants through Treptower Park. The puppeteer Ute Kahmann tells legends and fairy tales about water, wind and forest at selected locations. In between, the puppets interact with each other and encourage the children to talk.

Festival

The Grashüpfer puppet theatre invites children to an annual festival that deals with socially relevant topics. Puppet and stage art is shown, accompanied by workshops, discussions and dialogue formats. Children, families and adults are invited to engage with current issues and actively participate.

Grasshopper speaks

Since 2023, the puppet theatre series "Grashüpfer speaks..." has been showing stories from different cultures. The events promote dialogue and encounters and strengthen understanding of different ways of life. This allows children, young people and adults to get to know cultural diversity and gain new perspectives.

Birthday parties at the Grashüpfer

Children's birthdays, which can be celebrated in the children's theatre, are also very popular with the younger audience members. The programme includes arts and crafts, dressing up, playing and, of course, lots of imagination.

What else can you do in the neighbourhood?

And if the little ones' urge to move needs to be satisfied after a visit to the puppet theatre performance, a walk in Treptower Park is worthwhile. Here the little ones can let off steam on the world playground. The Island of Youth, from where a sweeping view over the Spree invites you to linger, is just a stone's throw away and the Archenhold observatory, which brings the starry sky within reach for young and old with its large refractor, the longest movable telescope in the world, is also just a few metres away on foot.