School theater of the countries

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The Schultheater der Länder is a school theater festival that takes place every September in a different federal state in Germany. School theater groups from all federal states present their pieces on changing themes.

The school theater of the federal states was initiated by the Federal Association of Performing Games with the support of the Körber Foundation in 1985 to promote the spread of school theater in Germany.

This festival is less a competition than a forum for the exchange of experiences between theater-loving schoolchildren, but also between teachers and theater professionals.

history

The school theater of the federal states was organized for the first time in 1985 on an initiative of the Federal Working Group for the Performing Games in Schools and the Körber Foundation.

The first school theater in the federal states took place over four days on the grounds of the Kampnagel factory in Hamburg. All eleven federal states were represented by a group at that time and presented their productions under the motto "School theater meets free theater". There were also technical discussions and workshops - elements that can be found again and again in the structure of all subsequent meetings.

In the first few years, the main focus was on formal focuses (school theater and music, body-oriented theater, in-house productions, literary models, mask play, etc.), but since the beginning of the 1990s attention has increasingly been drawn to innovative and socio-political content (school theater and politics , Focus on school culture, ... and it moves us! Etc.).

In 1991 a group from the new federal states could be welcomed for the first time; In 1994 all five new federal states were represented for the first time. In 2002, the school theater of the federal states completed its first tour of the Federal Republic.

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festival

Sponsor

In addition to the initiators, the Mercator Foundation got involved in the funding in 2011 and replaced the Körber Foundation as a sponsor in 2012. Further supporters are regional partners and sponsors and, since 1991, ministries of culture.

target

Conceived as a supraregional meeting and specialist forum for school theater, it should discuss theoretical questions on the basis of practical examples. In addition, the “school theater” network had to be set up and expanded across national borders and an opportunity for student theater groups to exchange ideas across Germany.

The school theater meeting takes place every September in a different federal state. School theater groups from all over Germany present their pieces on changing themes. Each federal state is represented by the group that convinced the jury most of all with its application.

The groups exchange ideas with one another, discuss their work with theater professionals and thus receive new, creative impulses.

Around 400 schoolchildren, teachers and specialists take part in the only school theater meeting and largest theater festival in Germany every year.

Current core objectives:

  • Anchoring theater in all school types and in all years in all federal states.
  • Admission as an Abitur subject in all federal states.
  • Improving and standardizing the quality of theater lessons.
  • Integration as basic training for student teachers at universities.

The project also strengthens the position of the aesthetic-creative subjects in schools and underlines the importance of cultural education, especially in general schools.

Workshops and symposium

An integral part of the week-long festival are over twenty accompanying workshops for schoolchildren, in which the design possibilities of the theater are experimented with. A scientific conference with lectures and workshops for theater teachers, theater pedagogues and student teachers as well as specialist forums in which the performances are analyzed under the moderation of professional theater experts enables the further development and discussion of didactic methods. With 100 to 150 participants annually, it is the largest advanced training event for performing games in Germany. The annual nationwide publication on the subject of school theater, the magazine “Fokus Schultheater”, reflects and presents current performance practice and new forms of theater based on the evaluation of the respective festival. It serves as a reflection and innovation framework for theater in schools and precisely reaches the specialist staff in the area. "Focus School Theater " has been published by edition koerber since 2001 .

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Theater groups of all school types and levels with no more than 25 participants can apply for the theater festival by April 30 of the year in question. Your projects should deal imaginatively and creatively with the respective framework topic and should last between 30 and 60 minutes. In addition to the BV.TS registration form, information about the play and a video recording must be enclosed with the application.

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