Role Work I

66B6360

Bachelor

German

5.0

winter and summer term

2 semesters

The Role Work I module consists of the courses “Monologue Work (Musical) I”, “Speaking (Musical) III” and “Scenic Speaking (Musical)”.

Monologue Work  I and Speaking III:
After the training in the second year of study concentrated mainly on experience and advanced basics in group lessons, the focus is now on individual lessons in relation to the development of monologues and auditions.

Scenic speaking:
After touching on the subject of classical language in the first year of acting basics, students now work more intensively on classical language in duo scenes.

Monologue Work  I and Speaking III:
The students, who have now completed half of their training, begin to collect material for future audition situations and their final examination. The focus here is particularly on carefully developing roles over a longer period of time, adding new playful elements, facing previously unknown artistic tasks and thus demonstrating playful abilities that have not yet emerged. There is now enough time to investigate, far from obvious casting ideas, which abilities and skills the students can develop in order to create new roles far removed from their previous artistic appearance and to develop stage characters that are seemingly removed from their previous artistic personality and thus expand their artistic alphabet and their choice of roles.

Scenic speaking:
Experience in recent years has shown that, due to changes in the German theater business, musical theater students are increasingly being used as fully-fledged and comprehensive performers, especially in three-part theaters. In order to be fully operational in this range, students are explicitly prepared here to deal with classical language and to be able to embody roles uninhibitedly, credibly, easily and comprehensibly, with complicated, classical language and verse. The particular challenge here is to do justice to the language even when it is used emotionally, to make it sound comprehensible and natural and to synchronize even complex texts with thought. For this purpose, duet scenes from German, English and French classical music are selected together in group lessons and linguistically demanding scenes are worked out using their examples. In the best case scenario, it will be possible to derive classical monologues for auditions and final exams from the scenes studied.

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

• Examination of artistic qualification

• Work practical and Regular participation

The course Monologue Work (Musical) I ends with one of the graded examinations listed.
The course Speaking (Musical) III ends with a work sample or with the examination type “regular participation”.
The choice of ungraded examination types from the given options is the responsibility of the respective teacher. They will adhere to the applicable study regulations.

See current study regulations. 

No prerequisites. It is recommended to have successfully completed the module “Scenic Design Forms”.

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

Monologue Work  I and Speaking III:
Students who have successfully completed this module are able to take on tasks without fear which, in their own estimation, were previously far removed from their artistic abilities and develop a desire for greater transformation without losing authenticity.

Scenic speaking:
Students who have successfully completed this module will be able to fundamentally apply the acquired handling of multi-layered and complex language in connection with deeper emotions and strong feelings to the subject area of text treatment in any scene.

Monologue Work  I and Speaking III:
Students who have successfully completed this module have experienced and understood that they are able to authentically fulfill tasks that demand skills far removed from their previous talents and thus develop a greater artistic range.

Scenic speaking:
Students who have successfully completed this module understand any work on the text as a basis for scenic understanding and creating a role or stage character. They are able to make complex dramatic texts their own and perform them authentically, excitingly and thoughtfully.

Monologue Work  I and Speaking III:
Students who have successfully completed this module will be able to apply their newly acquired skills, especially in overcoming old creative patterns and successfully fulfilling new artistic tasks, to singing and dance.

Scenic speaking:
Students who have successfully completed this module have understood that there are no small or superficial passages of text, but that for every replica, whether contemporary or classical, drama or musical, a profitable handling of thought, change of direction in the sentence, pause and/or continuation of the arc of thought can be worked out.

Monologue Work  I and Speaking III:
Students who have successfully completed this module have successfully expanded their artistic alphabet and are able to conquer new role profiles on this basis.

Scenic speaking:
Students who have successfully completed this module rediscover and develop language and their approach to texts in every piece of work, as they have the ability to synchronize text and thought freshly and in the moment.

Monologue Work  I and Speaking III:
Students who have successfully completed this module have learned to reflect on major acting problems in the protected setting of individual lessons, to address them and to be moved by positive criticism in conversation, to build confidence and to approach boundaries without fear, to point them out and, if necessary, to overcome them.

Dramatic speaking:
Students who have successfully completed this module will be able, through intensive practice, to communicate intelligibly with their acting partner in other dramatic scenes, maximally also in high emotional engagement, with complex language, to meet and move acting partners and the audience, to engage with the playful opposite, to absorb and transform each other's impulses and to challenge and encourage them for dramatic development within a scene.

Monologue Work  I and Speaking III:
Students who have successfully completed this module are able to face a previously unknown range of playful tasks and roles in everyday working life with greater self-confidence and without fear.

Scenic speaking:
Students who have successfully completed this module have reduced their fear of contact with complex texts and have the tools to make themselves available to classical texts and thus increase their casting possibilities in everyday professional life.

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 II”. 

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

• Wienhausen, Sascha

• Riebeling, Roland
• Behrens, Judith
• Tebbenhoff, Gesche
• Caspari, Matthias
• Giese, Sarah
• Dom, Christina