Theater workshop Heidelberg
The Theaterwerkstatt Heidelberg was founded in 1992 by the director and theater pedagogue Wolfgang Schmidt and has been training theater pedagogues as a theater pedagogical academy since 1999. In addition, the theater workshop, Heidelberg maintains a Theater Education Center a Theater Educational Service.
education
The training to become a theater pedagogue BuT comprises 1700 teaching hours. The subjects are: acting technique, directing, methods of role and scenic design, performing play, methodology and didactics of theater pedagogy, body language, physical theater, pantomime, expressiveness and handling of the voice, language and movement, improvisation, composition, production, dance, Choreography, perception and sensitivity, literature, theater history, drama analysis, scenic writing and diverse practical projects.
Since theater pedagogy moves in the area of tension between pedagogy and theater, the graduates have a wide range of activities open to them after successfully completing their training: Not only the “classic” theatrical pedagogical work at theaters, operas, children's and youth theaters, but also work in educational or economic fields of work as well as in cultural education.
Theater education service
The ensemble and the theater education team of the Theaterwerkstatt Heidelberg have been doing preventive theater in schools, youth centers and other socio-cultural institutions such as museums since 1997. This includes project days and project weeks on a wide variety of topics such as violence, addiction or migration. Theater for prevention is a concept that makes use of the resources of Augusto Boal's forum theater , playback theater , theater now, biographical theater, psychodrama and others. In addition, professional acting methods based on Konstantin Sergejewitsch Stanislawski , Michael Chekhov , Jerzy Grotowski , Wsewolod Emiljewitsch Meyerhold , Lee Strasberg and Peter Brook are used. In addition, recourse is made to Bertolt Brecht's Lehrstücktheater as well as to the methods of movement theater (e.g. after Rudolf von Laban ) and physical theater. The prevention theater should give the opportunity to involve the entire body. A holistic approach is sought to make the invisible visible. The Theater Education Service carries out a wide variety of projects in schools to bring theater closer to students and teachers. In addition to the artistic and aesthetic goals, the theater work should help to increase self-confidence, social skills, communication skills and empathy.
literature
- Wolfgang Schmidt: Golden Gate between theater and museum education. In: Gabriele Kindler (Ed.): MuseumsTheater . Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2001, ISBN 393312770X , p. 115.
- Wolfgang Schmidt / Dr. Babette Steinkrüger: Actors show the revolution of 1848/49. What can theater and drama education achieve in museums? In: Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (Hrsg.): Staged history (s). Museum theater, action spaces, picture stories . Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3789058769
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