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Cooperation FreeSZFE | ADK
A special cooperation was born out of the E:UTSA network, in which the Hungarian University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE, Budapest) was a member.
The governmentally imposed dismissal of the elected rectorate and forcible restructuring of the university into a foundation with a new board led to a peaceful occupation of the university, ending in the resignation of most of the faculty and the departure of 150 students who were unwilling to complete their studies at the SZFE under such conditions. Several other E:UTSA members (Warsaw’s Akademia Teatralna, the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Dimitri Academia in Verscio, Switzerland, and the ADK) banded together in solidarity to help.
The association FreeSZFE was founded on the ground in Budapest, and the ADK has built up a cooperation for long-term collaboration with this performing arts initiative in order to support modern education within a European framework.
more The joint underpinning is the conviction that students may have different backgrounds and languages, but that these differences represent a primary source of creative work. The pluralism of post-nationalist Europe beyond the idea of homogenous national identities, along with the celebration of different languages and traditions, thus forms the starting point of this cooperation. All cooperative projects initiated on the basis of this agreement are student-centered and focus on the artistic development of the participating students.
In its first step, this cooperation specifically means that the Hungarian students of the MA program were enrolled in the various other academies after passing an entrance exam. The master examination is then supervised by a joint panel.
At the ADK, eight affected Hungarian dramaturgy students are finishing their degrees this year within the framework of the »Emergency Exit« program. Further students are enrolled as extraordinary auditors supervised by the professors of FreeSZFE. In the fall and with the support of the Goethe Institute, some 100 students and professors of FreeSZFE will visit the cooperating academies. The »Emergency Exit« initiative for former SZFE students has been awarded the 2021 European Citizens’ Prize by the European Parliament.
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A cooperation project on themes of »Transnationality, linguistic diversity, and cooperation on a European level« supported with funding from the EU.
Participants include the ADK in Ludwigsburg as well as the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique (CNSAD) in Paris (France), the Akademia Teatralna in Warsaw (Poland), the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Glasgow), the August Everding Theaterakademie in Munich (Germany), the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático (ESAD) in Valencia (Spain), and the Instant Mix Theatre Lab. Due to pandemic considerations, the project, which runs for two years, will start in January 2022. In its first year, it will focus on the mobility of teachers, offering conferences on dance/movement and subsequently on music/singing/voice. The second year focuses on the mobility of teams of students, authors, actors, and directors from the participating schools. In December 2022, the ADK will host a team of approximately 25 to explore dramaturgy, writing, and translation.
2022 Schaupielschultreffen
The ADK is thrilled to become the 2022 host of the annual »Bundeswettbewerb zur Förderung des deutschsprachigen Schauspielnachwuchses« (Federal competition for the advancement of German-speaking trainee actors), colloquially known as »Schauspielschultreffen«(SKS).
The gathering in Ludwigsburg is organized by the SKS (Ständige Schauspielkonferenz, permanent acting conference) and Hamburg’s European Theatre Academy »Konrad Ekhof« and financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In 2022, for the first time, the gathering will follow a new program concept adapted to the changing demands of the performing arts.
In addition to large-scale productions, this will include the presentation of smaller works showcasing the theatre’s variety in interdisciplinary and new formats and experiments. This places the discourse on the future of theatre and theatre creation at the very center of this conference of German-speaking students and teachers in the acting world.
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Being able to hold such a festival in Baden-Württemberg, with its reputation for innovation and culture, sends a powerful message of the ADK’s interdisciplinary and innovative nature and future in this fifteenth year of the Academy’s existence.
Significant contributions to the financing of the Ludwigsburg gathering come through the support of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research, and Art, the city of Ludwigsburg, the Wüstenrot Foundation, the Stiftung Kunst, Kultur und Bildung, the Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg bank and the Baden-Württemberg state chapter of the Deutscher Bühnenverein (German Stage Association).
The gathering has also been made possible by cooperation with the Film Academy and the Karlskaserne Cultural Center, which cooperation creates open spaces and a field in which approximately 300 acting students from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland can come together in creative encounter and dialogue.
In favour of the Meeting, the biennial, international FURORE Festival curated by students, will not take place.
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