Studies (M.A.)
The performing arts are varied and complex — in their appearances as well as in their processes of development. Along the way, dramaturgs are mediators and multitaskers contributing a broad range of skills and experience: They develop ideas for projects, look at those projects and the artistic process with a critical distance, and respond to the claims of societal and political contexts both within institutions and similar production environments, as well as to the outside.
Dramaturgs can create protected spaces of freedom and possibility for artistic processes and engagement. They are in every sense go-betweens — intermediaries between social themes and artistic dreams, between writers and directors, but also between the production participants and audiences. Training at ADK encourages a wide variety of artistic practices and paths in life: in addition to traditional production dramaturgy in the theater, emphasis is placed on trans-disciplinary formats, in particular through collaboration with the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and its Animation Institute as well as curatorial engagement with international performing artists.
In the process, accessibility and inclusiveness, the intersections between theater and digitality, and sustainability form important touchstones of the curriculum. The program is designed to be completed in four semesters.
Program contents
- Theater history & theory
• Theater history survey • Forms and theory of theater performance since 1900 • Drama studies collection • History of costuming
- Media dramaturgy & theory
• Theater and digitality • Comparative media dramaturgy • Theater and media • Script
- Cultural theories & aesthetics
• Word and effect • Poetology • Access: Accessible Structures. Accessible Art • Power structures in culture, arts, and science and gender justice, diversity, and equality • Rhetoric
- Text & production analysis
• Readings in theatre history • Readings in contemporary drama • Shakespeare seminar • Performance analysis incl. theater attendance and reflections • Author spotlight • Production analysis
- Dramaturgical processes
• Fundamentals of dramaturgy• Communication dramaturgy and directing • Novel adaptations • Space and movement • Contemporary international theater
- Dramaturgical practice
• Practical dramaturgy • Film research project with the Film Academy • Short projects with ABK
- Arts administration
• Curating: Introduction | Production management, budget, sponsoring | Season planning for production houses⁄ festivals | Sustainability | Independent scene • Writing and presenting concepts • Presentation rhetoric • Applied cultural communication: PR— theory and practice, marketing, social media • Networking • Rights and obligations: contract law, insurance, stage regulations, tax law | Publishing and copyright, uinon and contract law • Future coaching
- Production dramaturgy
• Scenic projects (subject modules A and B) • Praxis ⁄ Dramaturgical assistance • Interdisciplinary project • Reflection (DasArts method) • Nomadic research
- Extended dramaturgy
• Citizens’ theatre • Children’s and youth theater • Speech for directors and dramaturgs • Contemporary performance • Theatre and exhibitions ⁄ Visual arts • Performing arts
- Fundamentals of acting
• Fundamentals I–III — Introduction to acting work • Training in scene acting
- MA thesis project
• Independent dramaturgical assistance in a production • Written MA thesis
Contact
Academic office for Dramaturgy:
Dahab Borke
Phone: +49 7141 – 30 99 6-25
dahab.borke@adk-bw.de
Information about studies
- 1. Course Catalogues
For further informations please contact the Academic Office Dramaturgy (dahab.borke@adk-bw.de)
The Course Catalogues 2024|25 for dramaturgy studies (1st and 2nd year) see PDF-Documents for download.
- 2. Start of studies
The study programme beginns in the winter semester.
Start of studies of winter semester 2025|26: Monday, 22nd of September 2025
- 3. Duration of studies
The duration of studies for the study programme of the Master Dramaturgy is two years or four semesters.
- 4. Admission
No age limit.
- 5. Admission exams
After the pre-selection by the examination board you will receive an invitation by email for the admission exams.
The date of the admission exams in 2025 will have to be announced as soon as possible.
- 6. Repetition of admission exams
If the entrance examination is not passed once it can be repeated at earliest one year later.
Further repetitions are not permitted. - 7. Head of course/ tutor
Head of course and tutor: Hon.-Prof. Carolin Hochleichter | Anna Haas
Deputy and tutors: Anna Haas | Hon.-Prof. Carolin Hochleichter - 8. Tuition fees
The state of Baden-Württemberg has not been charging tuition fees since the summer semester 2012.
As of the winter semester 2017|18, international students who come from outside the EU for the purpose of studying will make a contribution of € 1.500 per semester. For the second degree, € 650 are charged per semester
Informations for educational support BAFöG: here (in German)
Each semester a contribution of € 96,50 for the Studierendenwerk and an administration and AStA fee of € 35.- is mandatory,
in total € 131,50.Information on Studierendenwerk Stuttgart
see here: www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en
Application
++ For the application process please click here and use the german version of our website! ++
LINK to the online application
The application and related documents must be submitted in German, since entrance examinations and studies at the Academy of Performing Arts are held in German.
For all degree programmes, the application cycle for 2025|26 started in November 2024 with the following deadlines:
Dramaturgy: March 31st, 2025
Directing: March 23rd, 2025
Acting: February 16th, 2025 – EXPIRED