FRATZ Theater Festival For Very Young Audiences, Berlin (2026)

20/01/2026

*german version below

the dance piece «Yuki Onna - die Schneefrau» (5+)❄️ by is invited to this week's and is performing at .n.berlin this weekend!

friday, 23.01. / 10:00 * still tickets left*
saturday 24.01. | 16:00
sunday 25.01. | 16:00

Yuki Onna is a figure from Japanese mythology. She appears as a mysterious woman with long black hair, emerging from the icy silence of the snow to invite children to play with the wind. The stage transforms into a shimmering snowy landscape. Vivid, expressive passages of the tale are spoken in English, German, and Japanese, intertwining with Aya Toraiwa’s flowing movements to create a poetic and sensuous dance experience for all generations.

tickets and info via link in bio ✨

📸 Dieter Hartwig

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Das Tanzstück „Yuki Onna – die Schneefrau” (5+)❄️ von ist zum dieswöchigen eingeladen und wird dieses Wochenende im .n.berlin aufgeführt!

Freitag, 23.01. / 10:00 Uhr * noch Tickets verfügbar*
Samstag, 24.01. | 16:00 Uhr
Sonntag, 25.01. | 16:00 Uhr

Yuki Onna ist eine Figur aus der japanischen Mythologie. Sie erscheint als geheimnisvolle Frau mit langen schwarzen Haaren, die aus der eisigen Stille des Schnees auftaucht, um Kinder zum Spielen mit dem Wind einzuladen. Die Bühne verwandelt sich in eine schimmernde Schneelandschaft. Lebendige, ausdrucksstarke Passagen der Erzählung werden auf Englisch, Deutsch und Japanisch gesprochen und verbinden sich mit Aya Toraiwas fließenden Bewegungen zu einem poetischen und sinnlichen Tanzerlebnis für alle Generationen.

tickets und infos via link in bio ✨

11/10/2025

New FRATZ in the making and we want you to be part of it! 🌱

We are seeking productions for children aged 0-6!

FRATZ 2026 will take place in Berlin from October 9-15, 2026. We are planning to invite 4 productions for children aged 0-6. This can be productions that are recommended for children at least as young as 3+. It could also be productions recommended for children as young as 3 months, 6 months, 1 year or 2 years old. Productions for children 4 years and older do not fit the profile of our festival. #

We are interested in:
bold, funny, serious, light, interdisciplinary, or genre-specific productions that experiment artistically in new directions in the performing arts for very young audiences.
Productions that place particular emphasis on accessibility and the removal of barriers.
In particular, we would like to offer a platform to artists who, due to marginalized perspectives, have been unable to find many or any opportunities to present their work.

Deadline for applications is 16 November 2025 via application form on our website!

more information about the application via link in bio ✨

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Wir suchen Inszenierungen für Kinder von 0-6 Jahren!

FRATZ findet vom 9.-15. Oktober 2026 in Berlin statt. Wir möchten 4 Produktionen für Kinder von 0-6 Jahre einladen. Das können Stücke sein, die ab einem Alter von 3 Jahren oder jünger empfohlen werden. Es können auch Stücke sein, die sich an Kinder von 3 Monaten, 6 Monaten, 1 Jahr oder 2 Jahren richten. Stücke ab 4 Jahren fallen nicht mehr in das Profil unseres Festivals.

Wir interessieren uns für:
mutige, lustige, ernste, leichte, interdisziplinäre oder genre-spezifische Inszenierungen, die künstlerisch experimentell neue Wege in den darstellenden Künsten für die jüngsten Zuschauer*innen gehen.

Stücke, die ein besonderes Augenmerk auf Zugänglichkeit und Barriereabbau legen.
Besonders möchten wir Künstler*innen eine Plattform bieten, die aufgrund marginalisierter Perspektiven bislang nicht oder nur wenig Präsentationsmöglichkeiten für ihre Arbeit finden konnten.

Bewerbungsschluss ist der 16.11.2025!
Mehr Infos zum open call via link in bio ✨

10/03/2025

Wir haben eine Ankündigung für einen Workshop zu machen 🎉

*die deutsche Übersetzung findet ihr auf unserer Website*

We want to invite to a 5-day-workshop for dance and theater professionals:
Creating immersive performances and artistic experiences for children with diverse developmental profiles [email protected] September 22nd to 26th 2025 at Tanzhalle Wiesenburg in Berlin, part of the Werkstätten Junger Tanz 2025 – a format by für junges Publikum
The workshop aims to provide practical knowledge on creating performances for children with diverse developmental profiles, rooted in Dalija Acin Thelander's extensive artistic and academic research. This workshop encourages practitioners to rethink formats and methods in the field, inspiring and empowering them to create artistic experiences that honor the unique nature of this audience. By the end of the workshop, participants will gain valuable knowledge and practical experience for creating immersive performances, which they can apply in future projects—whether for funding applications, collaborations, or further
professional development.

More infos via link in bio ✨

📸 David Beecroft

15/11/2024

Looking back! Fratz Atelier

If you were by our location in Podewil, then you were probably excited to experience our interactive atelier “grow & root”, made and facilitated by Michaela Millar and Natalie Giannopoulos. From recycled materials they built a tree, where visiting children and adults could be a part of making it grow. You could also use the space for relaxing on the many pillows, which were filled with everything from hay to metal bottle caps and much more.

On the last atelier day, the children could harvest what the tree had to offer, which was many wonderful chains and drawings. We hope this installation brought a lot of joy and playfulness to our visitors. We enjoyed seeing the happy and creative children, that took part and left something behind or took something with them.

We try to offer something interactive every year at FRATZ, to give something that can be used by everyone at any time during the festival days. We hope you had fun!

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Wenn ihr uns im Podewil besucht habt, dann habt ihr wahrscheinlich unser interaktives Atelier „wachsen & wurzeln“ erlebt - gestaltet und begleitet von Michaela Millar und Natalie Giannopoulos. Aus recycelten Materialien bauten sie einen Baum, an dem Kinder und Erwachsene mitwirken konnten, damit er wächst. Der Raum lud auch zum Entspannen auf den vielen Kissen ein, die mit allem Möglichen gefüllt waren – von Heu bis hin zu Kronkorken und vielem mehr.

Am letzten Tag des Ateliers konnten die Kinder das ernten, was am Baum gewachsen war – viele wunderschöne Ketten und Zeichnungen. Wir hoffen, diese Installation hat unseren Besucher*innen viel Freude und Spiellust gebracht. Wir haben es sehr genossen, die glücklichen und kreativen Kinder zu sehen, die mitmachten, etwas hinterließen oder etwas mitnahmen.

Ein interaktives Angebot gehört beim FRATZ-Festival immer dazu. Etwas, das von allen genutzt werden kann, jederzeit während der Festivaltage. Wir hoffen, ihr hattet genauso viel Spaß mit dem Baum wie wir!

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11/11/2024

Looking Back! Research Labs

A big thank you to Swapnika Reddy and Sidharth Varma - participants in this year’s FRATZ research labs - for sharing their work in progress with our 2024-fratz-professional community and speaking about the process so freely and from the heart. We are aware can feel risky.
Thanks also to everyone present giving their response in such a valuing and appreciative way. It really made this evening warm, productive and affirmative.

Very excited to hear what will grow out of these seeds in the future!

This year, we asked our cooperation partner ThinkArts Kolkata, to design the research labs according to the needs and interests of the theater scene for young audiences in India. Nishna Mehta from the ThinkArts team organsied a digital masterclass on Theater for Early Years facilitated by Sananda Mukhopadhyaya.

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Ein großes Dankeschön an Swapnika Reddy und Sidharth Varma - Teilnehmer*innen der diesjährigen FRATZ-Forschungslabore -, dass sie ihren ‚work-in-progress‘ mit unserer FRATZ-Community 2024 geteilt und so offen und ehrlich über ihren kreativen Prozess gesprochen haben. Wir wissen, dass es sich riskant anfühlen kann, den Prozess zu öffnen.
Vielen Dank auch an alle Anwesenden, die ihre Eindrücke auf so wertschätzende und unterstützende Weise geteilt haben. Das hat den Abend wirklich warm, produktiv und inspirierend gemacht.

Wir sind sehr gespannt, was in Zukunft aus diesen Samen entstehen wird!

In diesem Jahr haben wir unseren Kooperationspartner ThinkArts Kolkata, gebeten, die Forschungslabore nach den Bedürfnissen und Interessen der Theaterszene für junges Publikum in Indien zu gestalten. Nishna Mehta aus dem ThinkArts-Team organisierte eine digitale Masterclass über Theater für die frühen Jahre, die von Sananda Mukhopadhyaya geleitet wurde.

Fotos: David Beecroft

01/11/2024

FRATZ 2024 – Looking back!

Three weeks ago today we opened our FRATZ festival and symposium at Podewil in Berlin Mitte. We thank everyone involved – the artists, the speakers and our partners and wonderful powerteam who created these jam-packed days of dance, theater and exchange! But most of all we want to applaud our audience consisting of families, Kita-groups and professionals.
We are proud to say we reached approximately 1700 small and tall people across Berlin and filled nearly 100% of our capacity. It is also the biggest audience we ever reached with FRATZ. Not to say that “higher, faster, wider” is always the criteria but in times of severe cuts in culture funding it also seems important to stress how much we can achieve with comparatively little financial means.

We will now start a series of posts reminiscing on various FRATZ 24 events through photos and drawings. Much joy looking back!

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Heute vor drei Wochen haben wir unser FRATZ-Festival und -Symposium im Podewil in Berlin Mitte eröffnet. Wir bedanken uns bei allen Beteiligten, die diese intensiven Tage ermöglicht haben! Vor allem aber möchten wir unserem Publikum, bestehend aus Familien, Kita-Gruppen und Fachleuten, applaudieren.
Wir sind stolz darauf, dass wir ca. 1700 kleine und große Menschen in ganz Berlin und damit das jemals größte FRATZ Publikum erreicht haben. Es soll nicht heißen, dass „höher, schneller, weiter“ immer das Kriterium sein sollte, aber in Zeiten drohender starker Kürzungen der Kulturförderung scheint es auch wichtig zu betonen, wie viel wir mit vergleichsweise geringen finanziellen Mitteln erreichen können.

Wir werden nun eine Reihe von Beiträgen starten, in denen wir mit Fotos und Zeichnungen an verschiedene FRATZ 24-Veranstaltungen zurückdenken. Viel Freude beim Zurückblicken!

17/10/2024

Recap Fratz Day 6 🦋✨

All good things come to an end! Our Fratz Festival day 6 was a full day of performances and full hearts and many kids came to see the plays! Our Fratz team feels the goodbye vibe in the air and we were making attention to the campaign against the cultural cutbacks, because yesterday was the day of action ! gave her workshop the last time and ended it as always with the words "keep loving trees"! 🌳

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16/10/2024

Recap Fratz Day 5 ✨

we are happy to share with you about our 5th festival day at Fratz! 🦋
performed for us and our audience their play "Shall we...together", a dance performance for children from 2,5 years and senior citizens. performed again their play «Bounced» and in the evening we had a cozy and yummy gathering in our .n.berlin with our guests, the artists and the whole Fratz crew ✨it was a blast!

We're enjoying the last days with you, thank you for the great time 🦋

15/10/2024

Recap Day 4 🦋🌻

It's half time of the festival and we're fully happy with all what's going on here! ✨

On Day 4 we saw many of our invited performances again in different places all over berlin. Fratz went to Fratz Kita in Marzahn Hellersdorf with the artists of Bounced from where a special meeting program was happening. spoke for us on the artist talk about her workshop «The Trees in us - Growing with trees» and in the evening Swapnika Reddy and from India shared with us their research laboratories and after that our invited guests and Fratz cooperation partners from with shared with us on the podium on theater for young audiences in India. Thank you for the great day!
For more to come 🦋🪩

📸 David Beecroft

14/10/2024

Recap Day 3 of Fratz 🦋🌿👣

Time flies and Day 3 of Fratz Festival is already over! We had a wonderful day, which started with workshop «The Trees in us» in the Volkspark Humboldthain, where we had very special experience with the trees and each other. showed us the performance «Shall we together» as a *relaxed performance and we saw the piece of .acin.thelander «Fields of Tender», a Performance for neurotypical babies as well as neurodivergent babies & children and children with disabilities. In the evening there was a lecture and a talk towards sensuous ecologies, rethinking ableism in choreographic and movement practices.

There is a lot more to come, check our program also via link in bio ✨🦋

📸 David Beecroft

13/10/2024

Recap of Day 2 at Fratz Festival 2024! 🎉🌱

On the second day of FRATZ almost everybody's here now and we're all so happy it started! We saw the amazing shows from the first day again and the Fratz Symposium startet with an exchange on sustainability and global equity between presenters of international festivals and the invited guest artists. Our beautifully growing Fratz Atelier tree in the entrance hall of Podel is growing and growing. And in the evening everybody shaked everything off at «Fratz dances» with a fantastic DJ Team 🪩🪩

We look forward to the next days and the next plays and performances!
Stay tuned 🦋🪩✨

📸David Beecroft

12/10/2024

Recap of Day 1 Fratz Festival 2024! 🦋🎉

Our hearts are full and we had a great start into the festival with «Bounced» by the from South Africa, with «Hanv Gara Asa (Zuhause bin ich)» by Sananda Mukhopadhyaya from India and with «THINGS at the end of the world» by .
After that, at the Fratz Opening we had the honor to welcome different speakers on stage at Podewil for the official start of Fratz International 2024. The Fratz Atelier grow & root is still in the foyer and open to join for everybody. 🌱

Stay tuned for the next days, we are happy to welcome you! 🦋

📸 David Beecroft

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