Thomas Buts

Thomas Buts is a German acting voice teacher .

Buts was born in Bremen and studied Islamic Studies at the University of Hamburg from 1983 to 1987 . He initially worked in the field of performance and installation art . In 1989 he took part in the ExR bridge project in Bremen and in 1990 performed two sound performances as part of the New Art in the Hagenbucher in Heilbronn . He later trained as a breathing, speaking and voice teacher using the Schlaffhorst and Andersen method and attended numerous advanced training courses, including the Feldenkrais method and the Alexander technique . From 1997 to 2003 he was a student of the American acting voice teacher Kristin Linklater at Columbia University , whose voice training methods he now teaches himself.

Since 2000 he has been working with the actress and voice teacher Verena Busche , for whose various plays E-XI-STIE-REN and The Sandman he also directed. Until 2004 he was acting coach at Grundy UFA in Cologne and also supervised the production of the TV series Verbotene Liebe . His students included the actors Sam Eisenstein , Karoline Schuch and Tanja Wenzel .

Buts is professor for speech training at Folkwang University . Before that, he had a teaching position at the Hanover University of Music and Drama and at the Folkwang University in Bochum. He lives in Berlin.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ personalia on folkwang-hochschule.de
2. ↑ art-of-acting.de
3. ↑ Folkwang University - Lecturer Directory ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.