"The Little Donkey" and "The Mouse Bride" are performed together. The joint production with the storyteller Margarete Möckel and the sound artist Jochen Faßbender is geared towards people interested in fairytales. An intentionally slow performance, reverberating sounds and measured storytelling get the audience's senses in the mood for the magic and poetry of the fairytales. Storytelling, puppet show and sounds form a unity. Both the puppet show and the sounds from time to time leave the narrated words behind and take the story's thread a step further.

This is what Heilbronner Stimme/Hohenloher Zeitung wrote about the performance:
" Unusual sounds waft across the visitors in Ingelfingen's town hall. Tension is rising, excited children are holding their breath. Even though many children came to the town hall today it is absolutely quiet in the audience. When the tension is almost unbearable (…) And then the visitors hear the warm voice of the storyteller Margarete Möckel. She narrates about a king and a queen who gave birth to a little donkey instead of a baby. (…) Directed by their creators, Marlene Gmelin and Detlef Schmelz, the little donkey, the king and the princess play out the fairytale of the donkey that goes out into the big wide world, marries a princess, sheds his donkey's skin and is granted two kingdoms.
The story of the mouse bride revolves around power. Since she is supposed to marry the most powerful man on earth, Father Mouse begins his search. He asks the sun man who is weaker than the rain. The rain, in turn, is weaker than the wind. The wind, however, is weaker than the mountain, and the mountain is weaker than the mice that eat holes in his base. And so Father Mouse's daughter gets what she wants: a kind mouse for a husband.
Margarete Möckel tells the fairytales, sound artist Jochen Faßbender accompanies the scenes with his music. And yet the puppets are the central figures. Not only because their creators' love for details is so obvious. It is fascinating to see how the puppets move about on stage and the small gestures they use to breathe life into the story. (…) The combination of storytelling, musical sounds and action on stage is full of harmony. Elaborate light effects create a very special and unique atmosphere. << back