Musical Lab - Acting Project
- Faculty
Institute of Music
- Version
Version 1 of 11.11.2024.
- Module identifier
66B6310
- Module level
Bachelor
- Language of instruction
German
- ECTS credit points and grading
5.0
- Module frequency
winter- and summerterm
- Duration
2 semesters
- Brief description
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.
- Teaching and learning outcomes
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.
- Overall workload
The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").
- Teaching and learning methods
Lecturer based learning Hours of workload Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 60 Seminar - Lecturer independent learning Hours of workload Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 90 Preparation/follow-up for course work -
- Ungraded exam
- Regular participation
- Remark on the assessment methods
The course ends with the examination type “regular participation”.
- Exam duration and scope
See current study regulations.
- Recommended prior knowledge
No prerequisites. It is recommended to have successfully completed the module Fundamentals of Acting.
- Knowledge Broadening
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.
- Knowledge deepening
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.
- Knowledge Understanding
- 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.
- Application and Transfer
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.
- Academic Innovation
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.
- Communication and Cooperation
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.
- Academic Self-Conception / Professionalism
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.
- Literature
David Mamet: Richtig und Falsch, 2001
Bernd Stegemann (Hrsg.): Stanislawski Reader, Henschel Verlag 20071
Michail A. Cechov: Die Kunst des Schauspielers, Verlag Urachhaus, 1990.
Margarethe Schuler, Stephanie Harrer: Grundlagen der Schauspielkunst, Leipzig (Henschel) 2011.
Yoshi Oida: Der unsichtbare Schauspieler, Alexander Verlag.
Yoshi Oida: Die Tricks eines Schauspielers, Alexander Verlag, 2009
David Mamet: Richtig und falsch, Alexander Verlag, 2001.
Barbara und Stanley Walden: Life upon the wicked stage, Kallmeyer Verlag 1978.
Radim Vlcek: Workshop Improvisationstheater, Auer Verlag, 2013,
Gerhard Ebert, Rudolf Penka: Schauspielen, Henschel Verlag 1998
Jakob Jenisch: Szenische spielfindung, Maternus Verlag, 1995
Marianne Miami Anderson: Theatersport, Buschfunk Verlag 1996
Keith Johnstone: Improvisation und Theater, Alexander Verlag: 1993
Heinz Finkowski: Sprecherzieherisches Elementarbuch, De Gruyter Verlag.
Julius Hey: Die Kunst des Sprechens, Mainz: Schott Verlag, 2017.
Heinrich von Kleist: Über das Marionettentheater, Stuttgart: Reclam Verlag, 2013.
- Linkage to other modules
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”.
- Applicability in study programs
- Music Education
- Music Education – Musical B.A. (01.09.2023)
- Music Education – Musical B.A. (01.09.2020)
- Person responsible for the module
- Wienhausen, Sascha
- Teachers
- Riebeling, Roland