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Support of Tours Abroad

German Artists Abroad

The Goethe Institute sends theatre and dance-theatre groups both from the professional field and the amateur and budding sector on tours abroad. In addition it connects guest-directors and guest-choreographers and assists local projects abroad through planning and financial support. The promotion is a key feature of cultural programme work of the Federal Foreign Office.

Further information at the Goethe Institutes on site as well as the Support and Funding for the Performing Arts of the Goethe Institute.

Junior Staff Promotion for German Artists

The Goethe Institute supports guest performances, tours abroad and exchange projects of German students and amateurs, including projects organised by related educational institutions and young professionals.

Further information at the Goethe Institute Munich as well as the Support and Funding for the Performing Arts of the Goethe Institute.

Guest Performance Tours of Foreign Artist in Germany

The Goethe Institute coordinates guest performances of professional theatre and dance ensembles from development and transformation countries in Germany. Performances in several places in Germany are desirable. In general, the Goethe Institute grants travel allowances and transport subsidies.

Further information at the Goethe Institute Munich.

Support of Exchange Programmes

International Forum

The International Forum is a two week long internationally advertised programme for professional theatre makers working artistically in the field of theatre. The objective is the promotion of young artists via a self-contained programme at the theatre meeting of the Berliner Festspiele. The forum is intended as a platform for comprehensive practical and theoretical exchange and includes practical training in workshops, participation in seminars, discussions and others.

Guest Programme for Artists from Abroad

The Goethe Institute and the International Theatre Institute offers a jointly conduct Guest Programme for young foreign theatre people. For the time of three months they are working at the stages of the Federal Republic of Germany and become acquainted with the production conditions and the conception and rehearsal process of at least one production.

Exchange Programme for German and French Cultural Institutions

In order to foster common cultural projects such as film festivals, theater productions, and exhibitions featuring artists between German and French institutions the Robert Bosch Foundation initiates the funding programme DUO. During one year, two cultural institutions work together in tandem, and have the opportunity to send an employee to the partner institution during two to four weeks. The exchange is funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation. The participants should benefit from the stay by getting to know the partner institution’s conceptual policy, their program planning, and work approach, and by identifying synergistic effects.

International Theatre Partnerships

The Federal Cultural Foundation's Fund Wanderlust awards funding to German municipal and state theatres which would like to establish long-term partnerships with foreign theatres. The goal of the fund is to support partnerships in their entirety, those that involve the exchange of artistic personnel, reciprocal guest performances and joint theatre productions.

Project Support of the EU

The European Union supports in line with the Programme Culture 2007-2013 perennial cooperation projects between cultural institutions from different countries. It offers assistance possibilities for all cultural sectors and for all kinds of cultural actors.

Further information in the Programme Guide.

Support Programmes for Artist in the Field of Theatre

Funding Programmes of the DAAD

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers different scholarships for German students continuing artistic education abroad. Further information provides the Scholarship Database of the DAAD.

Solitude Residence Programme

The Akademie Schloss Solitude promotes with its scholarship programmes mainly younger, particularly gifted international artists from the disciplines architecture, visual art, performing art, design, literature, music/sound, video/film/new media.

Application forms and further information at http://bewerbung.akademie-solitude.de.

Residence Programme George Sand – Frédéric Chopin

The Federal Government Representative for Culture and Media provides artists of the fields of literature, music, visual arts, performing arts and media arts, a 10-week stay at the Castle Genshagen near Berlin. The participants come from Germany, Poland and France and develop a common result of her artistic work.

Additional Sources of Support

Further promotion possibilities are in the feature study for students and academic for graduates and scientists.

Worth Knowing about the Field Theatre

Libraries/Data Bases

The virtual professional library media, stage, film offers research in various library catalogues, article databases and internet sites to the issue theatre.

The library of the university Frankfurt supervises the special collections theatre studies embracing monographs, magazines, microfilm and matters like theatre programmes and stage manuscripts published beyond the booktrade. The theatre studies include the subdomains music theatre, ballet, pantomime and figure theatre in all variations.

The Library Service Centre Baden-Württemberg offers a web directory for public internet supply in the field film.

The Theatre Library of the Goethe Institute informs about contemporary German drama and a selection of new plays with its authors. This information should serve to give theatre makers from abroad an overview of current texts and its availability in other languages.

New German Dramatic Art of the Goethe Institute offers information about German-speaking dramatists with creation overview and commentary.

The Internet page 50 Directors of the Goethe Institute provides information on over 50 stage directors working in Germany. Each entry includes a short biography, a select list of major productions, a journalist's portrait of the producer and links to current productions.

The Theatre Library for Children’s and Youth Theatre of the Goethe Institute presents the plays which are characterised with the German Children or German Youth Theatre Award. Besides a summary it includes a brief biography of the author, a list of his work, and information about the number of performers, first performance, and translations of the piece.

The Goethe Institute’s theatre section offers further information in the field theatre.

Directory of German Theatres

The Directory of German Theatres lists adresses, provides links to tickets in advance booking services as well as information about books, CD's, a job market for actresses/actors and theatre related jobs etc.

www.theaterverzeichnis.de (website in German)

Events in Germany

In the worldwide net of the Goethe Institutes there are events organised not only important for Germany but also take place in Germany. An overview provides the calender of events of the Goethe Institute.

The House of World Cultures is a place for international contemporary arts and a forum for current developments and discourse. Visual arts, music, literature, performing arts, film, academic discussions and digital media are all linked in an interdisciplinary programme that is unique in Europe. In cooperation with artists and experts, it offers visitors opportunities to grapple with the conflicts, challenges and questions of our time.

The Kulturportal Deutschland informs about German and European cultural projects and offers a database with the topical events can be called up.