Michael Chekhov Studio Berlin - Acting School and Training

Training / Chekhov Foundation Year

"The inner life of the imagination, and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself."
Michael Tschechow

2024 / 2025

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

30 September to 20 December 2024 (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

13 January to 04 April 2025 (c. 24 hours/week)
Basic training as in the first Trimester, psychogical gesture, space and time composition (dynamics), scene work (in pairs).

Third Trimester

28 April to 18 July 2025 (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
Frequently asked questions