Virus Construction
An inflatable full-body costume
In the first year of the pandemic, we designed a (socially distanced) COVID-compliant theatre piece using this costume, which paradoxically never got to be performed...
Lockdown here
Lockdown there
Lockdown everywhere
Building a giant mouse mask
for a musical
A mouse, after a work accident, has an oversized long snout and can only whistle. A microphone is installed inside the mask so that the performer can whistle live.
Stork Construction - a large sculpture
WITH MOVING WINGS AND A CLACKING BEAK AS A LOTTERY DRUM FOR A PHARMACY IN BERLIN
Fortunately, I had a wonderful welder at hand for this project; the figure had to be particularly sturdy, as children played with both wings and beak.
Giant Chicken Costume
A full-body costume as a large puppet with a chicken head mask with an opening beak for the street theatre production "Hühnchens neue Welt" (English: “Chicken’s New World”) by Figurenkombinat
This chicken is part of our most performed street theatre piece: "Hühnchens neue Welt" (Chicken's New World).
Building a clapping-mouth grandma puppet
for the Landesbühne Sachsen
For this character, I built my first eye mechanism with movable eyes, which gives the puppet an incredibly lively expression. The old lady is quite risqué! I built her topless with a transparent blouse.