Mo-EliaStock
puppeteer and actress
Mo-Elia Stock was born in Dresden in 2000 and studied Contemporary Puppetry at the "Ernst Busch" University of Theatre Arts Berlin. Before beginning their studies, they completed a voluntary cultural year at tjg. theater junge generation in Dresden. Their first productions at Theater Waidspeicher were “Gold Power Love Death – The Song of the Nibelungs” and “The Servant of Two Masters” during the 2022/2023 season. In the following 2023/2024 season, “Fiete and the Sea” marked their freelance diploma project as a puppeteer.
In the 2025/26 season she appears in:
Puss in Boots
Wolf’s Eylashes
Fiete and the Sea
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
What the Rhinoceros Saw When It Looked Over the Fence
The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces
Iphigenia, King’s Child
Gold Power Love Death – The Song of the Niblungs
Krabat
Animal Letters
Macbeth!
Karoline Vogel
puppeteer and actress
Karoline Vogel was born in Wittenberg in 1986. She studied Contemporary Puppetry at the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. She performed in productions at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin and the Cabaret Theater "Distel" in Berlin.
Since the season 2014/2015 she has been a member of Theater Waidspeicher ensemble. Since then, she has appeared on stage in numerous productions, including “King Lear”, “The Wooden Horse”, “My Slightly Strange Friend Walter”, and “Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow”.
She also works freelance as dubbing actors.
In the season 2025/2026 she appears in:
The Hare and the Hedgehog
Mole’s Star
Wolf’s Eylashes
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Panicman
The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces
Gold Power Love Death – The Song of the Niblungs
Pretty Lola, Pleasant Liesel
Heinrich Bennke
puppeteer and actor
Heinrich Bennke was born in Schwerin in 1987. He graduated from the Faculty of Puppetry at the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. He performed with the "Berliner Ensemble" and with the Cabaret Theater "Distel" in Berlin. Since the season 2013/14 he has been a member of Theater Waidspeicher ensemble, where he has appeared in over 20 productions since then.
He also works freelance as dubbing actors.
In the season 2025/2026 he appears in:
The Hare and the Hedgehog
Wolf’s Eylashes
Panicman
Pinocchio
What the Rhinoceros Saw When It Looked Over the Fence
Iphigenia, King’s Child
Gold Power Love Death – The Song of the Niblungs
Krabat
Atlas of Remote Islands
Pretty Lola, Pleasant Liesel
Macbeth
Paul S. Kemner
puppeteer and actor
Paul S. Kemner, the son of dancer Claudia Hanfgarn and actor Martin Kemner, appeared as a child in “Waiting for Godot”, “The Who's - Tommy” and “Give me the juice”. After leaving school, he completed a business studies course and began studying computer science. During this time, he worked as an extra and supporting actor and made his own short film. In 2019, he began studying at the "Ernst Busch" University of Theater Arts, Faculty Contemporary Puppetry, which he successfully completed in 2024. Since the 2024/25 season he is engaged at Theater Waidspeicher.
In the season 2025/2026 he appears in:
What the Rhinoceros Saw When It Looked Over the Fence
Puss in Boots
Panicman
Animal Letters
Tomas Mielentz
puppeteer and actor
Tomas Mielentz was born in Meißen in 1966. From 1991 to 1995, he studied at the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts", Faculty Puppetry in Berlin. He has been a permanent member of the ensemble at Theater Waidspeicher since 1995, where he has since performed in over 80 productions for children, young people and adults and worked as a director.
In the season 2025/26 he appears in:
Pinocchio
What the Rhinoceros Saw When It Looked Over the Fence
Gold Power Love Death – The Song of the the Niblungs
Krabat
Animal Letters
Residents
Pretty Lola, Pleasant Liesel