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Application slogan 2026: A SPACE FOR ART, CREATIVITY, VALUES.
Picture: Barbara Schirmer
Stage scene with man and woman in intimate expression
Divide me into little stars (Director: Juno Peter, 2024, Thalia Gaußstraße)
Picture: Richard Stöhr
A person with floating red balls on the stage
The Sandman (Director: Tristan Linder, 2024, Thalia Gaußstraße)
Picture: Richard Stöhr
Five people in conversation.
An inspector is coming (Director: Kilian Prigge, 2023, Schauspielhaus)
Picture: Richard Stöhr

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Apply to study at the Theaterakademie Hamburg from February 15 to April 1!

BACHELOR
Singing | Teaching Theater | Directing Musical Theater | Directing Drama

MASTER
Dramaturgy Music Theater | Dramaturgy Acting | Singing | Song Interpretation | Opera

The Master's degree course in Directing will start for the first time in summer semester 2026. The application deadlines for this course and for the acting course are different.

Information about the entrance examinations can be found here.

You can access the online application here.

Interdisciplinary theater practice. Right from the start.

The success and particular appeal of the Theaterakademie lies in its dual-track artistic and academic training and the transdisciplinary networking of all theater-related courses of study.

Here, directors, singers, actors and dramaturges work together in rehearsal stages and studios from the very beginning. The direct proximity to the Institute for Cultural and Media Management opens up new perspectives for the development of artistic projects. The proximity to the university's instrumental courses, conductors and composers creates a unique learning environment in which students can develop their individual artistic personality in creative processes.

176 Studierende
6 Studiengänge

Artistic collaborations at the highest level

The Theaterakademie cooperates with the stage design class at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst (HfBK) and the costume designers at the Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften (HAW). Artistic teams that often work together successfully for years are already formed during the course of study.

Hamburg State Opera, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Thalia Theater and Kampnagel are directly involved in the training profile in the role of advisory board. Artists from the respective theaters teach in the various disciplines. The public projects of the higher classes take place in the venues of Hamburg's state and private theaters.

Drawing of a harlequin in front of a very blurred garden festival backdrop
Premiere
Fri, 03/20 Musical theatre
FÊTE GALANTE

Opera by Ethel Smyth

Forum, 19:00 Uhr

Drawing of a harlequin in front of a very blurred garden festival backdrop Sat, 03/21 Musical theatre
FÊTE GALANTE

Opera by Ethel Smyth

Forum, 19:00 Uhr

Drawing of a harlequin in front of a very blurred garden festival backdrop Sun, 03/22 Musical theatre
FÊTE GALANTE

Opera by Ethel Smyth

Forum, 16:00 Uhr

Hannes Höhler

Technische Leitung Campus Barmbek+49 170 2262419hannes.hoehler@hfmt-hamburg.de