Studio stage

A studio stage as a theater company or theater is often attached to a training facility, a cultural center or a larger theater and is used by young actors for their first appearances or experienced actors for theatrical experiments. The name is also used in a figurative sense for theater in the context of training or for experimental theater , workshop performances and the like.

“Studio” in the sense of an experimental or avant-garde theater was the name of the first four stages of the Moscow Art Theater 1913–1922.

The Studiobühne as part of a training facility is about studying roles and coping with the fear of the audience. For example, a student learns to deal with the size of a theater room and to adapt to it.

Another connotation of the studio stage is its economical equipment , which hardly allows any technical effects and allows the actors to expect a kind of chamber play . In this sense, the term studio stage is also used for film sets that are not intended to distract from the actors and their art, which could still be considered an ideal idea in television plays or in film melodrama of the 1960s: "... Since it was mostly recorded on a studio stage, it leaves a rather antiquated impression today. "

The name sometimes implies that the so-called venue is used as a rehearsal room and ancillary venue to a larger stage: "The studio stage in the theater becomes a permanent rehearsal and performance location for the ensemble [...]".

Examples

• New studio stage , Baiersbronn / Freudenstadt
• Bayreuth studio stage
• Studio stage at the German Department of the University of Bonn
• Studio stage Cologne
• Studio stage of the University of Paderborn
• Siegburg studio stage
• taT studio stage of the Giessen City Theater
• Hoffmannkeller of the Augsburg Theater

literature

• Frank Thiess: Theater without a ramp. Pieces for room theaters and studio stages , Wegner, Hamburg 1956.
• Horst Schumacher: Studio , in: Manfred Brauneck, Gérard Schneilin (Hrsg.): Theaterlexikon, Vol. 1, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007, pp. 958–959. ISBN 978-3-499-55673-9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Music and University: 200 Years of Academic Music Education in Würzburg , page 117, Verlag Königshausen und Neumann, 1997, ISBN 3826014375 , from Google Books , accessed on February 15, 2015
2. ^ Thomas Kramer, Martin Prucha: Film in the course of time: 100 years of cinema in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Ueberreuter, Vienna 1994, p. 260. ISBN 978-3800035168
3. ↑ Theater heute , 13: 1972, p. 56.