Indoor Events for Kids in Berlin

BAUBAU is a play space inside the Gropius Bau, designed by the artist Kerstin Brätsch, where more is allowed than forbidden. Painted walls, abstract structures and heaps of loose parts (cardboard, fabric, rope, kitchenware) become whatever kids decide.

Trained playworkers keep it safe while children build, take things apart, run around or rest. There are no workshops or set tasks, so it suits kids who like open-ended play more than a guided program.

A special exhibition at the Deutsches Technikmuseum, planned with 60 Berlin schoolkids as curators. Their models of a future city sit at the center, surrounded by prototypes and ideas for housing, energy, climate and nature.

Kids can build their own city in kinetic sand, test a sensor trash can, match animals to habitats and step in front of the Invisible Shield. It suits curious primary-school kids best.

Tur Tur Theater's modern take on the musical classic. Dorothy lands in the land beyond the rainbow and sets off to find the Wizard of Oz, picking up a scarecrow who wants more brains, a tin man who lost his heart and a lion afraid of everything.

Sophie Ammann and Alexander Altomirianos play it as a story about friendship, made for laughing, crying and thinking.

Bauchgefühl is a poetic play about two people who perceive the world differently and keep bumping into each other in the same office. One rainy day, objects come to life, words turn into movement, signs into sound and images into crackling descriptions.

It is made for deaf and hearing, blind, visually impaired and sighted audiences together, so a kid sees how many ways there are to understand someone.

Der schaurige Schusch is a puppet play set on the lonely Dogglspitz mountain, where a grumpy marmot, a shy chicken, a party-loving rabbit and their neighbors are sure the newcomer moving in will be gruesome. None of them has met him yet.

It's a story about prejudice and curiosity, played by one performer with puppets and music. It suits kids who can follow a story told in German.

Berliner Puppentheater brings its puppet show Der Grolltroll (The Grumpy Troll) to the Bibliothek im Märkischen Viertel. Kids watch a grumpy troll's story played out with puppets.

It suits toddlers and preschoolers, and makes an easy first taste of theater in a familiar library setting.

A puppet version of the Grimm tale: a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster, chased off by their owners, team up and set out to become town musicians in Bremen. Played by Sebastian Günther, it is staged as a musical road movie full of blues.

It suits kids who follow spoken German or already know the story, since the words and songs carry it.

Every winter the children's library at the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek puts a real Mongolian yurt in its atrium garden, and professional storytellers sit inside it to tell fairy tales and stories from around the world.

Kids sit close and listen to stories told live, not read from a book. It suits preschoolers who can sit still for a story; toddlers under 3 are not admitted.

A hands-on craft workshop at MACHmit! Museum für Kinder where kids make a portrait of themselves and their gang. It sits alongside KUNSTKNALL, the museum's exhibition of ceramics, photos, paintings and textiles by women artists from Berlin and beyond. Kids work at the museum's craft tables, so it suits anyone who likes making things with friends or family.

Kackebart is a farm boy who wants to be a knight. He heads to King Pipifax's tournament, gets laughed at by the other knights, then gets his chance when a dragon kidnaps the princess.

Kindertheater Purzelbaum plays it as a silly, potty-humor fairy tale. It suits kids who find a poop beard hilarious; families who'd rather skip toilet jokes should pick another show.

A colored shadow-puppet version of Andersen's Thumbelina, performed by puppeteer Thomas Mierau. Thumbelina is born in a flower and travels past a toad, cheerful fish, a dancing butterfly and a rich mole who wants her in his palace, until a swallow carries her to a land of flowers. Gentle and poetic, with songs. Performed in German.

Once the Museum für Naturkunde closes for the day, visitors sneak through its dark exhibition rooms by flashlight. A guide leads the search for animals of the night, and kids explore the exhibitions.

It suits curious kids who follow spoken German and are happy in the dark.

A puppet and object theater take on Andersen's Little Match Girl, set in today's Berlin. On New Year's Eve, old Frau Friedel walks the snowy streets of a city that has changed around her, and she has lost a lot along the way. In the glow of each match she strikes, things look different. A detailed Berlin street set carries much of the story, so it suits school-age kids who enjoy a quiet, thoughtful show.

A shorter, kid-sized version of the opera house's backstage tour. Children walk past the giant stage sets waiting in storage, look down into the orchestra pit and stand on the main stage where singers perform their arias.

Along the way they see how stagehands, the props team and other departments get a show ready. It suits curious school-age kids who like to know how things work.

Families look for angels in the Gemäldegalerie's old paintings: some play music, some bring news, some fight, some pray. Then everyone makes their own winged angel figure.

A drop-in craft workshop inspired by the biting, funny works of artist Maurizio Cattelan. Kids make pop-up cards that bring cheeky little figures to life, then post the caricature to someone who needs to hear it or leave it somewhere in the city for a stranger to find. Suits kids who like making things and have a sharp sense of humor.

Prokofiev's musical fairy tale about Peter, an orphan boy who leaves the garden gate open, and the adventure that follows with his grandfather, a hunter, a cat, a duck, a bird and a wolf. Six musicians play it live while a narrator tells the story in German.

It is the flagship family concert of the Kammerorchester Unter den Linden, and suits kids who can follow spoken German.

The youth company of CABUWAZI Tempelhof, 18 young artists, performs a new circus production about wanting to be yourself and still belong. Solo and group acts on Chinese pole, aerial silks, straps, hoop diving, wire, trapeze and contortion show both the joy of freedom and the pressure of being left out. Directed by Jeele Johannsen.

One actress tells the Grimm tale of the miller's daughter, three rooms of straw and a little man who wants her first child, switching between every role in front of the kids. Children call out ideas that she works into the story, and at many points they step on stage to play along. It is told in German.

Czech illustrator Lucie Lučanská opens with a reading from her picture book, which follows a walk from a village into the forest and back, told one sense at a time.

Then kids draw their own route to the library on a very long roll of paper: what they saw, heard, touched, smelled and tasted, mixing in collage and rubbings. It suits kids who like to draw and take their time.

Pappelapapp is a material theater show by Amai-Figurentheater Berlin, played entirely without words. It starts with plain cardboard boxes and, with a little imagination, turns them into paper tigers, fire-breathing dragons, small cardboard people and a cardboard home.

It is made for the youngest theatergoers. There is no dialogue to follow, so it needs no German, and kids can simply watch one ordinary thing become another.

A guided walk through the museum's DINOSAURS! special exhibition, made for families. Kids meet dinosaurs from three geological eras: Tristan Otto, one of the best-preserved T. rex skeletons in the world, the 13-meter Giraffatitan and the Archaeopteryx, the world's most famous fossil.

The guide speaks German, so it suits kids who can follow along in German best.

Kids and grown-ups build a pop-up box together, filled with pictures of the people, pets, toys or places they love most. Everything is made at the table from craft materials, and the finished treasure box goes home with you. It is open drop-in making, so families work at their own pace.

A guided family talk through the special exhibition on Genghis Khan and the Mongols. Kids meet the animals of the steppe nomads, come face to face with brightly painted grave guardian figures and travel back to the Great Khan's palace in Karakorum, the Mongol capital.

The big moment is a real yurt, where kids step inside and decide whether it could be home. It suits curious kids with big questions.

Honigkuchenpferde are Germany's first pop band made for parents and kids to enjoy together. Their songs are about friendship, diversity and courage, and they are made for singing, dancing and joining in. The band also speaks up for children's rights, so the party comes with a message. Expect a cheerful hour of joining in rather than a quiet sit-down show.

A new retelling of Pinocchio by playwright Philipp Löhle, staged as a musical family play. Woodcarver Geppetto wants a child, and the puppet he carves wakes up and races off to school, distracted by the fox and the cat and a toy land where anything goes. Geppetto has to set out after him. A story about parents as much as kids.

A group of fans is on a backstage tour before a big concert when the band gets locked in its dressing room. The fans know the songs, and some can play, but nobody wants to stand in the spotlight.

The collective hannsjana uses humor and plenty of live music to look at shyness, stage fright and self-confidence. It suits quiet kids, and the loud ones around them.

Three musicians, Emma Grünfeld, Marceese and Robert Metcalf, turn a kids' concert into a sound experiment. Alongside sing-along songs, they bring mysterious gadgets that distort, change and flip sounds upside down.

Kids click their tongues, tap and experiment, finding out what odd noises a mouth can make and how a simple "plop" grows into a whole rhythm. It suits curious kids who like to join in.

A musical fairy tale by Thomas Sutter. The little harmonica feels too small and too plain for the big concert hall, until it meets its relatives the accordion, the jaw harp and the Chinese sheng, and finds its own sound.

Soloists Wu Wei, Sören Birke and Mikael Yakut play all four instruments and show how they differ, and why they are one family: each sounds through a free reed.

A theatrical treasure hunt where children help restore damaged books from a secret archive. Actors Yana Lova and Cem Göktas perform "Pippi Becomes a Treasure Seeker" by Astrid Lindgren, with audiences identifying missing words and phrases to rescue the story from a hungry bookworm. Each monthly installment features a different classic; this production is the second in the series.

Vier zurück brings back One, Two, Three and Four, after the GRIPS shows "Vier sind hier" and "Vier bei dir". Three players and a musician invite kids into a world under a huge table, where many things seem bigger than you are.

Made for the very youngest, it's a funny, musical piece about the special moments of growing up, told with play, sounds and songs.

A funny children's play starring the NEINhorn. It has fallen out with the KönigsDOCHter, and nobody remembers why. When the NAhUND starts playing teacher too, the NEINhorn has had enough and sets off. After a long walk it lands in a dark jungle with the SchLANGEWEILE, who hangs from a branch and finds everything deadly boring.

The jokes are German wordplay, so it suits kids who follow spoken German.

A fox leaps through fresh snow and plays with the flakes, while a Wicht keeps warm indoors with steaming tea. Then a snowstorm blows in and the fox is gone. Mirjam Hesse of Theater Miamou builds the story from figures and materials, in a calm, clear visual style.

The show is told in German Sign Language and spoken German, made for deaf and hearing kids to watch together.

A new musical play from Theater an der Parkaue (Chaos der Gefühle) about what love feels like. A question mark goes looking for answers and meets a cloud floating around in love, a hyper hormone, a candy-loving strawberry and Frustration.

It is funny, full of songs written for the show, and lands on self-love and the courage to ask questions. Suits kids starting to notice crushes.

A hands-on design workshop run by the Bauhaus-Archiv, inspired by pieces from its collection and by how design was taught at the Bauhaus. Kids and adults explore photography, drawing, material and pattern, craft techniques and color, using analog and digital tools. No experience needed.

The great magician Ala Labama turns walking sticks into flowers and bananas into carrots, and makes things float. Then his assistant Fridolin misses his cue, the big rabbit transformation goes wrong, and the show tips into chaos. Coq au Vin mixes magic, acrobatics and slapstick, and the actors play off the kids in the audience.

Storytellers Nicola Knappe and Maria Carmela Marinelli follow a block of stone, cut from a mountain near Berlin, that became the figures in and around the Humboldt Forum, like Hercules and Jupiter. They weave its adventures together with myths from antiquity, told with humor in German and Italian side by side.

It suits kids who can follow a spoken story in at least one of the two languages.

Ich & Herr Meyer are two bald musicians who have spent ten years making songs for kids and their parents. They sing and rap in German about everyday family life: small injustices between siblings, the freedom of a stay with Grandma and Grandpa, AI, and a first crush.

Some songs take on climate and sustainability too. It suits kids who like pop and hip-hop more than nursery songs.

A lively, musical and funny take on sex education, in a gently updated version of the Theater Rote Grütze classic. On stage: girls and boys, affection and desire, feeling ashamed, and how babies get into the belly and back out again.

Director Göksen Güntel's staging also shows kids they can say no when they don't like something. It suits families looking for an easy way into these conversations.

A monthly evening program where the Labyrinth Kindermuseum turns off the lights and kids explore its TALENTOPIA exhibition with headlamps, UV light and glowing materials. Across six stations they build, craft, dance and dress up, trying out movement, music, touch, logic, language and art. It ends with the big marble run lit up and glowing paper planes sailing through the dark museum. Parents drop off and pick up.

FEZ-Berlin, a large children's and family center in the Wuhlheide park, turns its rooms and stages into a puppet theater festival for the 30th time. Professional puppet and object theater companies play fairy tales, picture-book stories like The Gruffalo and The Rainbow Fish, and pieces for the very youngest. Around the shows, a side program lets kids make things themselves and explore the world of theater a bit further.

A hands-on craft workshop where kids build paper torches inspired by Minecraft that light up. They learn how a simple electric circuit works and wire it with conductive tape, then shape the torch from colored and see-through paper however they like. Each kid takes their torch home, ready for an evening walk in the dark. Run by the library with the paper-electronics makers Volt Paper Scissors.

Families explore the sound rooms of composer and artist Ryuichi Sakamoto, where hearing, seeing and feeling blur together. Back in the studio, everyone turns what they felt into small movement exercises, and families can design a Family Sunday poster of their impressions. Best for kids who like to listen, move and make things.

Theater Marotte turns the much-loved picture book into a puppet show. A little mouse crosses a big forest full of dangers and scares off everyone who wants to eat her by threatening them with the terrible Gruffalo, a monster she made up. Or did she?

It is told in German, so it suits kids who follow spoken German or already know the story well.

Bubales is a Jewish puppet theater, and this is its show for Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights. Shlomo is given a mysterious wonder lamp from Istanbul, and three funny spirits jump out to tell of a miracle of light in the Temple in Jerusalem.

With Jewish humor, a candle band and a hyperactive dreidel, it tells the holiday's customs and its old story.

Christmas is coming, but nothing goes to plan for Pettersson and Findus: no tree, no festive meal, no firewood, and then Pettersson sprains his foot. A Christmas elf called Kirsi has an idea that could change everything.

Theater des Lachens plays it as a warm, funny story about friendship and helping each other out. It is performed in German, so it suits kids who follow spoken German.

The Flying Fairytale Orchestra is planning the perfect Christmas party and invites all the kids. But what makes Christmas perfect: a decorated tree, presents, a roast goose?

Together with the kids, the cast goes looking and finds songs, customs and poems from other countries and cultures. By the end, the children help put the perfect Christmas show on stage. A German-language show by Morphtheater, best for kids who follow German.

Sinneszauber is FEZ-Berlin's Advent program for families. A giant Christmas tree lights up the foyer, and around it kids and parents make, tinker, play and craft small gifts together.

It is hands-on rather than a show to watch, so it suits kids who like making things. A warm indoor plan for when it is cold and dark outside.

NO GLOW is a circus show performed by the kids and teens who train at CABUWAZI, Berlin's youth circus. A girl stays behind in the big top after everyone leaves, finds out what the circus does at night, and asks who she is.

Acrobatics and juggling mix with theater and dance. It's the group's year-end show, so expect proud young performers and a crowd of families cheering them on.

Two angels crash-land on Earth and try to win back favor from up above by wowing the audience with acrobatics, clowning and clever ideas. Jealousy gets in the way, and the comedy ends on a simple point: help each other.

Coq Au Vin mixes circus and theater, and kids get pulled into the action rather than left sitting still. No religious content, despite the angels. Parents get their share of jokes too.

A storytelling tent in Neukölln where traditional fairy tales from countries like India, Turkey, Japan and Ghana are told in their original language. Kids sit on floor cushions while the storyteller shows large illustrations painted by artists from that country, so the pictures, gestures and faces carry the plot whatever language a child speaks.

Afterward, the storyteller and the audience retell the story together. Running since 2006.

Ranik and Raja are two young wolves and best friends, but Ranik knows little about how to be a good friend. When a forest fairy spirits Raja away, Ranik has to learn what true friendship means to break the spell, facing adventures and tests along the way, with a quick-witted raccoon who might help.

Actors in full costume play it out. It's the Silflay troupe's own production, performed in German.

A German-language musical comedy about Albertina, a big-hearted schoolgirl who heads to the junkyard to visit her friends Henriette the hen and Marvin the mole. When she learns her mom wants no tree this year, she wishes one up in the wishing tub, and it comes true. This is no ordinary tree, and chaos follows.

Best for kids who follow German well enough to enjoy the jokes.

Milchsalon puts on a run of family concerts through autumn and the run-up to Christmas. Corinna Bilke and her Skeleton Band open with Grusical, spooky songs and funny interludes for Halloween, and she returns with jazzy winter songs from her album Wunschuniversum.

Unter meinem Bett brings singer-songwriters from the compilation series to one stage, and Pauken & Planeten meet Nevio Passaro for a German-Italian Christmas show.

Kids and grown-ups don't sit and watch here: they share the stage with four professional krump dancers and help decide how the piece unfolds.

Krump is a street dance born in Los Angeles as a response to inequality, built on community and backing each other. Choreographer Janne Gregor turns it into a group game, so every show comes out different. A good fit for movers, less so for shy watchers.

Two trolls, Frieda and Mey, are deep in their winter sleep when Knut wakes them: Christmas is at the door. But nobody is standing there. Who is Christmas? Is it big, small, dangerous?

This cheerful puppet show follows the pair as they puzzle it out and get ready in their own way. It is performed in German, so it suits kids who can follow simple spoken German.

D!E GÄNG is a kids' band that plays hip-hop, dancehall and ska, the music plenty of parents grew up on. Singer Ben Pavlidis (of Ohrbooten) started writing the songs with his daughter Chaja as a family project, and two albums later Chaja and Luna, no longer small kids themselves, front the band on stage.

Expect a loud, bouncy concert where the whole family is meant to get up and dance.

Staatsballett Berlin opens its rehearsal studios at the Deutsche Oper to families for a hands-on morning. Dance teachers explain how ballet works, then kids and their grown-ups try some steps themselves.

At the end, everyone watches the company's professional dancers up close during their daily morning class. A good fit for kids who like to move or are curious about what happens behind the stage.

A Sunday-afternoon club for kids at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. A disco ball, balloons and a rotating cast of DJs turn several of the building's halls into a dance floor where children run, dance and make friends.

Some dates add a special: the October edition is a Ballroom session with House of St. Laurent, with a costume workshop and a runway walk for every kid who wants one.

The Grimm tale of the tailor and his seven flies, told as a concert that falls apart on purpose. A narrator and four musicians start a polite recital, then a stranger claiming to be the real tailor walks in and the show turns into a play. Bass flutes become giants and a bass clarinet becomes the wild boar.

It suits kids who like a story with a twist and live instruments up close.

Kemi gets sent to a forest summer camp with half his class, including Marko, who turns kids into outsiders just because he can. When Marko targets Kemi's cabinmate Jörg, Kemi has to choose between staying quiet and stepping in.

Saša Stanišić's prize-winning novel becomes a big ensemble show with dance, a turning stage and a wolf with glowing eyes. It suits kids ready to talk about bullying afterward.

Two clown chefs set out to bake an apple cake, and things keep going wrong. They stir the dough with acrobatic tricks and dance routines.

It mixes clowning, dance, theater and acrobatics, and the clowns play close to the audience. A good pick for kids who enjoy clowns and like being part of the show.

A hands-on family workshop from the Museum für Islamische Kunst. Families work together on their own vest: a mesh fabric becomes the canvas, decorated with colorful thread, beads and child-safe needles, using patterns from the museum's collection or straight from imagination. Kids pick up simple knotting and embroidery stitches along the way, and the finished vest goes home with them. Best for kids patient enough to thread a needle.

A fairy-tale puppet play loosely based on Janosch. A poor man owns an apple tree that never blooms and never bears fruit. He wishes, honestly and over and over, for one single apple, and then something happens.

Susi Claus adapted the story and plays it herself, directed by Daniel Wagner. It is told in German, so it suits young kids who can follow a spoken story in German.

Mira Lobe's picture book comes to the stage. A colorful creature is happy until a tree frog asks, "Who are you?" It sets off to ask the other animals and finds bits of itself in each, but no match. The set and costumes are all paper, and musician Marcus Thomas builds the soundtrack live with a chord zither and loop station, close enough for kids to watch how each sound is made.

Laura is six, furious at being blamed for something she didn't do, and sets off on her bike to see the world, starting with her own Berlin apartment building. Next door she finds odd neighbors, new kinds of families and unusual life stories, while her mom searches for her. A new staging of a GRIPS favorite, with live musicians, songs and plenty of humor. Performed in German.

A puppet show about Mischka, a teddy bear who is tired of being a toy and runs away. On his travels he finds adventures and new friends, then a reindeer asks him to help deliver Christmas presents.

At the last house the sack is empty, and Mischka has to figure out what to do for the boy asleep inside. A quiet story about caring for someone else.

Paul Maar's Sams, a cheeky creature who grants wishes, picks shy Mr. Taschenbier as its dad and turns his orderly life upside down at home, at the office and in a department store.

ATZE's staging adds live songs: actors play music on office supplies, sing a cappella and dance through the store scene. It is performed in German, so it suits kids who follow the language or already know the books.

Da Sein is a gentle musical story based on Kathrin Schärer's picture book. A hedgehog keeps getting parcels, and with every box the hedgehog and a rat open, the two discover a new feeling: being together, being sad, being excited.

Charango, recorder, accordion and more turn small everyday moments into big drama. It suits preschoolers and young kids ready to sit through a show about feelings.

Two performers feel, listen and describe their way into the world under our feet: roots, crawling things, water and sound. With materials, puppets and live sound, they follow traces into what can't be seen and invite kids to imagine it.

It's Schaubude's first show made by blind and sighted artists together, with audio description built into the performance, so blind and sighted children follow the same story.

The Three Little Pigs, told with colored shadow puppets. Puppeteer Thomas Mierau moves warm-lit flat figures across a glowing screen, in the style of Turkish Karagöz shadow theater. The pigs build houses of straw, wood and stone, the wolf huffs and puffs, gives up and slinks away, and everyone ends with a song and dance. A gentle, slow-paced show that suits preschoolers meeting live theater for the first time.

Grüne Woche is a huge indoor food and farming fair across the Messe Berlin halls. Around 1,600 exhibitors offer tastings of regional and international specialties, from fruit and vegetables to fish, meat, wine and beer. Kids can try hands-on activities on farming and food, and there is a family room for breaks. It is closer to a trade fair than a kids' festival, so it suits curious school-age children best.

A puppet show based on Chris Naylor-Ballesteros's picture book The Suitcase. A bird, a fox and a rabbit meet in the woods to build things, until a strange animal turns up dragging a suitcase. Curious and suspicious, they break it open while it sleeps.

A gentle, serious story about being a stranger and finding a place, performed in German by Theater Couturier.

Theater Miamou's puppet version of the Hans Christian Andersen tale. Kay and Gerda play together every day until a splinter lodges in Kay's eye, he turns cold and follows the Snow Queen to her icy palace in the far north.

Gerda refuses to give up and sets out to find him. It is a story about friendship, with a few dark moments that suit school-age kids better than toddlers.

A donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster are each thrown out for being too old or too slow, so they team up and set off for Bremen. Rike Schuberty plays the Grimm tale on her own, with puppets and music by Berlin musician Masha Qrella.

They never reach Bremen, but they find friends and a new start along the way. It suits kids who already know the story.

Berlinale Generation is the Berlin International Film Festival's section for young audiences. Kids and teens watch features, documentaries and animation from around the world, often with filmmakers and their young stars in the room for questions afterward. Children's and Youth Juries, made up of young viewers, choose the winners of the Crystal Bears.

A puppet musical based on Eric Carle's story. A caterpillar with green fuzzy hair hatches on a meadow, eats too many sweets and gets sick, and the owl and the forest animals nurse it back to health before it spins a cocoon and wakes up as a butterfly.

Thomas Mierau plays every part with colored shadow puppets, and the show is full of songs about growing up and eating well.

Rapauke is the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin's concert series for preschoolers. In this one, four orchestra musicians (oboe and English horn, clarinet, violin, double bass) and the Rapauke character build the show around heads and legs, hats and shoes, and how we get around.

Kids don't sit still: they stamp, hop and spin, finding out how movement and music fit together. The hosting is in German.

A color-shadow puppet version of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, played to the original music. Kids watch the duck waddle into the pond, the cat dance a blues and Peter and the little bird outwit the wolf, then find out what happens to the duck inside the wolf.

Puppeteer Thomas Mierau built the puppets and the stage, and plays and narrates the show himself. A gentle first taste of classical music.

Germany's only nationwide performing arts festival for young audiences, held every two years since 1991. Ten productions from across the country include a toddler piece about a baobab tree, a monster show, a dance work and teen dramas. Some are made for the youngest viewers, others for 12 and up.

Dozens of Berlin museums, memorials and planetariums stay open late on one night in August, with speedy tours, workshops, concerts and DJ sets. Each year has a theme; 2026's was crime, from art forgeries to cybercrime. One ticket covers every venue and the shuttle buses, historic S-Bahn trains and rickshaws that link them.

A lively, funny children's version of Mozart's Magic Flute. Andreas Peer Kähler wrote the script, plays the piano and steps in as Mozart himself, guiding kids through the story. Ensemble Papamino, with singers from the Deutsche Oper Berlin chorus, sings and acts it.

It suits kids who follow German and are curious about opera.