In the course of study, students engage with a variety of different arts and media: from theater, dance, and performance art to film, television, photography, the acoustic and digital media, and performances in culture, politics, and everyday life. They are enabled to scientifically analyze and reflect on the relationships and interactions between the various forms and techniques of theater and media. Are you interested in how films work? What effect the movements and voices of the stage characters have on the audience?
Would you like to learn how to design a stage set? Then a degree in theater and media studies might be right for you. But beware. The studies in Erlangen are primarily scientific. Instead, you will gain basic knowledge about the history, theory and aesthetics of theater and media.
You will learn to classify very different theater and media phenomena historically, to compare them with each other and to reflect on them critically. This enables you to see more and further than the practical specialists — and that, in turn, can be used everywhere. Here in Erlangen, we take great care to link theory with practice: Technical exercises and practical projects are an integral part of the curriculum, and lecturers from the practical world of theater and media give you insights into very different areas and ways of working.
Those who wish can also become creatively active at the institute with their own project and present it to the public there. The professionally equipped spatial and technical as well as personnel resources of the Institute for Theater and Media Studies can be used for experimental forms of teaching and learning as well as for independent practice by the students.
For scenic project work, the Experimental Theater provides a flexibly usable theater space with state-of-the-art lighting technology, an audio system with multi-channel and surround options, and various video projection options, as well as media studios with flexibly usable audio and video equipment and fully digital editing suites.
