Musical Lab - Acting Project

66B6310

Bachelor

German

5.0

winter- and summerterm

2 semesters

The students develop an entire production of a classical or contemporary play in a professional setting, from the reading rehearsal to several performances that are shown to the public.

The students, who after initial successes in basic classes and the constant expansion of their skills through scene study and mask play, now experience the opportunity to face the demands of their future profession for the first time in an almost professional setting, starting with the reading of various plays and discussions about possible casting, scenic realization and staging style, a decision is made about the future project. The teacher or director makes the final decision on the cast, type of performance, aesthetic means, stage design and costume on the basis of the previous readings, and the challenge for the students is to become creative with the given framework, to come to terms with the distribution of roles, to apply what they have learned successfully and effortlessly in a stage space and, above all, to develop a dramatic character “with staying power” over several acts and to bring it to life with tension, mystery and the necessary energy. The character must be filled with suspense, mystery and the necessary energy for the whole evening. After the readings, a compressed rehearsal phase begins until the premiere. Through the number of several performances, the students learn to get into a successful routine with their different daily form and to develop not inhibiting but beneficial changeability.

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Regular participation

The course ends with the examination type “regular participation”.

See current study regulations. 

No prerequisites. It is recommended to have successfully completed the module Fundamentals of Acting. 

Knowledge and understanding build on the level of basic teaching and go significantly beyond this. Graduates have demonstrated a broad and integrated knowledge and understanding of the scientific foundations of their field of study.

Students who have successfully completed this module are able to successfully apply what they have learned in everyday rehearsals without special pedagogical guidance and supervision and to develop and consolidate confidence in their previous skills.

• Students who have successfully completed this module understand how to transfer the knowledge they have learned into a professional setting and how to contribute effectively and diversely in a rehearsal process, beginning to develop resilience and stamina.

Students who have successfully completed this module have gained the experience of dealing with the rehearsal process, character development within a fixed framework, premiere pressure, maintaining a playful performance and the associated quality of a performance in the still highly protected framework of a school education and are able to use this initial experience to their advantage for future projects.

The students who have successfully completed this module apply the various methods taught by different teachers in a working process and now develop their own, very individual way of finding themselves as a stage personality for the first time with the help of the pool of approaches they have learned and create a new way of working of personal relevance.

Students who have successfully completed this module are able to work together to design a project, to deal with taste and message in a targeted manner, to create an evening that enters into symbiosis with an audience and, in the best case, pleases, challenges, entertains and moves.

The students who have successfully completed this module have gone through an entire practice-oriented rehearsal process like at the Stadttheater, have tried themselves out in front of an audience for the first time, and can draw on the experience they have gained in terms of resilience and the necessary creativity with self-confidence in future work processes.

The module enables access to one's own artistic power and serves to develop a credible and unmistakable stage personality. The module also prepares students for the advanced module “Role work I”. 

• Music Education – Musical B.A. (01.09.2023)
• Music Education – Musical B.A. (01.09.2020)

• Wienhausen, Sascha

• Riebeling, Roland