Training / Chekhov Foundation Year
Academic year 2025 / 26
Director: Jobst Langhans
The Chekhov Foundation Year is a nine month full-time training idealy suited to people who ...
OCUPATIONAL ORIENTATION / BASIC STUDIES ACTING TRAINING
... want to find out, by way of an intensive acting course, if a career
in drama has a future for them, or if they want to qualify for the
Professional Training for Actors at the Michael
Tschechow Studio Berlin.
ACTING/DRAMA THERAPY OR TEACHING AID
... need to prepare for a peadagogical project (in the rhealm of theatre, for example) and wish to refresh or deepen their own understanding of artistic practice before working with others.
FURTHER TRAINING
... have already completed a drama training elsewhere, but are interested in developing their craft further in an intensive study of the Chekhov method.
First Trimester
22. Sept. - 12. Dez. 2025 (c. 22 hours/week)
Basic training (practical and theoretical training in the Stanislavski
and Chekhov methods, physical technique, voice and speech training, function
and development of the imagination (inner pictures) and atmospheres, psycho-physical
exercises, improvisation, character finding, text work, compositional
analysis).
Second Trimester
05. Jan. - 27. Mrz. 2026 (c. 24 hours/week)
Basic training as in the first Trimester, psychogical gesture, space and
time composition (dynamics), scene work (in pairs).
Third Trimester
20. Apr. - 10. Jul. 2026 (c. 40 hours/week)
Basic training, Project work (production of a finished play, or scenes
from a play, or development and writing of the groups own play) to finish
in a theatre performance.
The basic training is from Monday to Friday from 9.00 until 14.00 (changes can occur). Lesson preparation requires c. 3 hours
Subject
Basic training, physical technique, psycho-physical training, improvisation, scene-studies, voice and speech training, Feldenkreis/Aikido, choir, Scene Work.
Epochs
Foundation course in mime, neutral mask, improvisation.
TEACHERS
Jobst Langhans(director, actor, director of MTSB)
basic training, scene-studies, compositional anaysis.
Dido-Marie Laux (Actress, speech teacher, business trainer)
speech, improvisation
Bernhard Mumm(Feldenkreis teacher/therapist, Aikido 2nd
Dan)
Feldenkreis method
Matthias Fernow (Psychological Counselor, Aikido 3rd Dan)
Aikido
Jörg Brennecke(Pantomime)
mime basics, neutral mask
Fedor Stephanov(actor - Moskow)
Improvisation
Other teachers will be engaged for the scene work.
(changes can occur)
REQUIREMENTS
Access to the Foundation Year depends on the outcome of an audition where applicants will be expected to present one short scene/monologue from a play (max length: 5 minutes), as well as a poem or a short story
Download application form:
AUDITIONS
If you send the completed application to our office, you will receive an invitation for the entrance examination.
Fees
are 395,-- euros/month (9 months)- Fees are to be paid in advance at the beginning of every Trimester.
FURTHER INFORMATION
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