New teacher training course for theater in Hamburg starts in winter semester 2024/25

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From the winter semester 2024/25, students in Hamburg will be able to train as theater teachers in new courses for the first time. The undergraduate subject of theater is planned for all school levels: For the teaching profession at elementary school, the teaching profession for secondary levels I and II (district schools and grammar schools) as well as the teaching profession for special education. With this new course, the Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HfMT) and the University of Hamburg (UHH) are pooling their expertise in theater art, science and didactics. The new teacher training course was presented in the early afternoon in the presence of Science Senator Katharina Fegebank and HfMT President Prof. Dr. Jan Philipp Sprick.
With the newly established teacher training course for theater, prospective theater educators in Hamburg will receive a qualified education. Collective scenic research processes and project work characterize the artistic-practical and didactic subject studies. In an interplay of artistic-aesthetic, scientific-theoretical and pedagogical-didactic practical and theoretical units, the course imparts basic knowledge for teaching theater in different types of schools. In addition to their own theater and performance experience, knowledge in the instruction, mediation and reflection of aesthetic, physical and performative experiences with students are also an integral part of the curriculum. Interested parties can submit their applications for the new teacher training course in theater until April 1, 2024.

Katharina Fegebank, Senator for Science: "Theater opens up diverse perspectives, it critically questions current social issues and is also an important place for communicating art and culture. The introduction of the new teacher training course in theater is a significant strengthening of the aesthetic education and cultural participation of our students. I am very pleased that the University of Music and Drama, together with the University of Hamburg, will be offering prospective theater teachers a sound and professional education from the coming winter semester. I would like to thank all the university staff involved for designing and implementing the course and look forward to receiving many applications from prospective students."

Prof. Dr. Jan Philipp Sprick, President of the HfMT: "I am very pleased that the HfMT can now also offer artistically and pedagogically ambitious teacher training courses in the field of theater. Especially in the context of a combination of theater and music at school, students can engage with the performing arts in an even more diverse way."

Prof. Sabina Dhein, Director of the HfMT Theater Academy: "We are looking forward to creative, experimental young people who are interested in theater, games and performance and are good at motivating children and young people and inspiring their imagination. School as a place of aesthetic education and a space for performative artistic practice by and with pupils is an intensive space for experience, action and learning to engage with the world and the self. The networking with the artistic courses of study at the Theaterakademie and the close cooperation with the city's diverse theater landscape characterize this new course of study."

Prof. Wolfgang Sting, Professor of Theater Pedagogy at the UHH: "Everyone in Hamburg who finds theater work with children and young people from all backgrounds important and educationally relevant as aesthetic education and cultural participation has wished for this degree program. Theater an Hamburger (Hoch)Schulen shows and conveys how artistically exciting, diverse and thus open to the future and community-building theater pedagogical projects can be. In this way, the course also makes an important contribution to the democratic education of young people. I am very pleased about the productive collaboration between the HfMT and UHH on this new course and I am sure that it will be a success story for teacher training in Hamburg and for theater teaching in Hamburg schools."