Insights

INSIGHTS: PRACTICE is the English version of our workshops. These 90-minute workshops provide a concrete approach to the content and aesthetic principles of the production in question. You will explore questions of content and aesthetic forms, and analyse characters as well as individual aspects of the given topic. Theatre educational games and acting exercises will give you a practical access to theatre work. You will become actors for a short while, gain insights into the content and acting on stage and exchange your thoughts with us and among each other.

EINBLICKE: PRAXIS is the German version of our appplied workshops. These 90-minute workshops provide a concrete approach to the content and aesthetic principles of the production in question. You will explore questions of content and aesthetic forms, and analyse characters as well as individual aspects of the given topic. Theatre educational games and acting exercises will give you a practical access to theatre work. You will become actors for a short while, gain insights into the content and acting on stage and exchange your thoughts with us and among each other.

EINBLICKE: SPEZIAL is an additional once-a-month special event in German. With a different topical issue each month, we explore various facets of our plays and productions by meeting the people who invent and produce them. This means that dramaturgs, directors, actors, dancers, authors, make-up artists, props persons and many others will present their work – sometimes still in progress – to you and invite you to join them in their profession.

At slightly longer intervals, we invite you to be “up close and personal” to the process of developing a project. The production teams will open their doors to the visitors of Berliner Ensemble, who are invited to attend an open rehearsal.

For all those who want even more theatre experiences, we offer Theatre Weekends with two four-hour workshops which take a close look at one individual production, its content and its aesthetics. There will be an opportunity to try your hand at acting and to discuss a wide range of perspectives. Exchanging ideas and experiencing the theatre together are at the centre of these events. And on Saturday night, we will all watch the production together! In German. 

Theatre Meeting Point for Everyone

We will create a space where we can experiment together and have fun. Twice a month, we will open our work-room to everyone who is interested in trying out acting. We will look at a range of different theatre styles, we will try improvisation and focus on gestures and facial expressions, or the voice, or the text. Young or older, theatre newbies or theatre enthusiasts – everyone is welcome!