Hes­si­an Thea­ter Aca­de­my

Foun­ded in 2002, the Hes­si­an Thea­ter Aca­de­my brings tog­e­ther all uni­ver­si­ties in­vol­ved in thea­ter trai­ning in Hes­se as well as the Hes­si­an sta­te thea­ters, all mu­ni­ci­pal thea­ters and some thea­ters from Ba­den-Würt­tem­berg and Rhi­ne­land-Pa­la­ti­na­te. The wide va­rie­ty of per­forming arts di­sci­pli­nes and their in­ter­re­la­ti­ons­hips pro­vi­de stu­dents with rea­listic and prac­ti­cal op­por­tu­nities to pre­pa­re for the com­ple­xi­ty of their ar­tis­tic ca­re­ers.

With their fi­nal pro­duc­tions at the thea­ters, the young ar­tists de­ve­lop their first pro­fes­sio­nal thea­ter and mu­si­cal thea­ter evenings and per­for­man­ces.

The Hes­si­an Thea­ter Aca­de­my is ba­sed at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic and Per­forming Arts in Frank­furt.

Sin­ce Fe­bru­a­ry 21, 2026, Prof. Bo­ja­na Kunst, Head of the Mas­ter's de­gree cour­se in "Cho­reo­gra­phy and Per­for­mance" at the In­sti­tu­te for Ap­p­lied Thea­t­re Stu­dies at Jus­tus Lie­big Uni­ver­si­ty Gies­sen, has been the Pre­si­dent of the Hes­si­an Thea­t­re Aca­de­my. Bo­ja­na Kunst suc­ceeds Prof. Ingo Diehl, who led the HTA as Pre­si­dent for eight ye­ars. Do­ro­thea Hart­mann, Di­rec­tor of the Hes­si­sches Staats­thea­ter Wies­ba­den, has held the of­fice of Vice Pre­si­dent sin­ce Fe­bru­a­ry 21, suc­cee­ding Kars­ten Wie­gand, Di­rec­tor of the Staats­thea­ter Darm­stadt.

The fol­lo­wing uni­ver­si­ties are mem­bers of the Hes­si­an Thea­ter Aca­de­my:

... and they coope­ra­te with the fol­lo­wing part­ner thea­ters in the trai­ning of stu­dents:

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