Thea­ter Di­rec­ting

Di­rec­ting be­g­ins with an idea, a the­me, a play – me­ans deal­ing with many ques­ti­ons and are­as of theat­re and life. This re­qui­res ex­pe­ri­men­ta­ti­on, de­cis­i­ons and me­dia­ti­on: in all its com­ple­xi­ty and di­ver­si­ty, a pro­duc­tion is ul­ti­m­ate­ly al­ways a team suc­cess.

Stu­dy di­rec­ting for the theat­re

In the Ba­che­lor's pro­gram­me we train di­rec­tors for the theat­re. Prac­ti­cal ori­en­ta­ti­on and their own pro­duc­tions are cen­tral ele­ments of the trai­ning: In the Ba­che­lor's de­gree pro­gram­me in Di­rec­ting, we work clo­se­ly with the part­ner thea­tres of the Hes­si­an Theat­re Aca­de­my (HTA), whe­ther th­rough job shadowing and as­sis­ting or the stu­dent­s' own pro­duc­tions.

The cur­ri­cu­lum also in­cludes joint cour­ses, work­shops and pro­jects with the ac­ting de­part­ment and the mas­ter's de­gree cour­se in theat­re and or­chestra ma­nage­ment at the HfMDK, with the mas­ter's de­gree cour­se in dra­ma­tur­gy at the Jo­hann Wol­fang Goe­the Uni­ver­si­ty in Frank­furt, the cour­se in stage de­sign/scen­ic space at the Of­fen­bach Uni­ver­si­ty of Art and De­sign (HfG) and the In­sti­tu­te for Ap­plied Theat­re Stu­dies at the Jus­tus Lie­big Uni­ver­si­ty in Gie­ßen. Ad­di­tio­nal­ly, the many thea­tres in the HTA net­work are also places of trai­ning.

Cur­rent dis­cour­ses, new con­cepts of re­pre­sen­ta­ti­on

The cour­se ta­kes up cur­rent dis­cour­ses, ad­dres­ses the fu­ture of theat­re and in­te­gra­tes con­tri­bu­ti­ons from li­te­ra­tu­re and phi­lo­so­phy, from the arts and so­cial sci­en­ces. It im­parts skills for theo­re­ti­cal-re­fle­xi­ve and ar­tis­tic-prac­ti­cal work – and crea­tes space for cross-con­nec­tions: Stu­dents of di­rec­ting at the HfMDK deal with all for­mats of con­tem­po­ra­ry theat­re, they ex­pe­ri­ment with new con­cepts of re­pre­sen­ta­ti­on and aes­the­tics.