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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.