"The little witch who couldn't be angry" (original title: A Bruxinha que era boa - 1958) by Brazilian author Maria Clara Machado was an en-suite Christmas project for children at the Volksbühne in December 1985. The little witch rosemary is different from the other witch students. She has blond-golden hair and can not be really mean, as it would be for a first class witch. So she falls through the witch test and does not win the missile broomstick she longed for. When she then gave the lumberjack Peter against the order of Prince Otterngift III. Doing good is locked in the pitch tower.
Albert Wendt is a German children's book author, whose plays "My thick coat" and "Princess petite feet and the seven elephants" were premiered on the Berlin Volksbühne in 1982. (Source: Wikipedia) Princess Zartfuß (petite feet), very corpulent, and her husband, Dr. Ing. Mäusel, are traveling in the volcanic mountains when the road is blocked by a boulder. Even a circus with seven elephants, a conductor and a crane driver are stuck. Princess Zartfuß has the crazy idea to hoist the elephants on the rocks and have them dance for a homemade concert.
The original work "L'Augellino Belverde" by Carlo Gozzi is a philosophical fairy tale told in three acts. Two abandoned royal children, Renzo and Barbarina, who grew up in the butchers' households of Smeraldina and Truffaldino, are well on their way to developing into clever pranks, for whom all actions are reduced to selfishness. Gozzi, contemporary and opponent of Carlo Goldoni, lets them experience a series of wonderful encounters until the two researching nihilists see a light. Among other things, talking birds and statues as well as the power of love play a big role.
Klaus lives with his two brothers Kunz and Franz in a little village. Together, they ply their trade as cobblers in a small workshop. But the workload rests mainly on the shoulders of ill-treated Klaus. When Kunz and Franz go off into the forest to chop wood for fuel they run into an old woman who asks them for some wine and bread. Rudely and gruffly, they refuse her request and return home without any wood. Klaus then has to set out and he meets the old woman as well. He gladly offers her his frugal meal which is suddenly turned into pancakes and good wine.