For individuals

Once a month on Thursdays, we invite you to our GRIPS Box at Hansaplatz for advanced training on various theatre topics. The topics change from time to time. The aim is always to get hands-on experience of theatre and to learn methods that can be used in your own environment. We are delighted to be working with many different partners this season.

Participation is free of charge and requires no prior knowledge.
A certificate of participation will be issued.

Venue & time
GRIPS Box Hansaplatz, 5 - 8 pm
Info & registration
fortbildung(at)grips-theater.de

Dates & Topics

Thu, 27.02.2025, 5-8 pm
Playing without language: visual guidance from a deaf* and hearing perspective.

How can we communicate non-verbally and guide without language? Jan Kress (deaf*) and Charlotte Bartesch (hearing) use dance and playful exercises to show how they can organise activities without language. The focus is on creating an inclusive environment in which both deaf* and hearing children and young people can be active together.
Deaf* includes different identities and life realities such as being deaf, hard of hearing, CI-wearing and later deaf.

 - with Jan Kress - dancer, performer, theatre educator and Charlotte Bartesch - theatre educator and theatre maker

Thu 3.4.2025, 5-8 pm
Theatre methods to promote democracy - having a voice in theatre and school

Schools follow a fixed framework curriculum, and in the theatre, too, decisions are usually made by adults. But where is the room for manoeuvre for children and young people? Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child guarantees all children the right to have a say in decisions that affect them - and this applies to both school and theatre.

In this workshop, teachers are given practical theatre methods to help children and young people make their voices heard: How can they have an active and meaningful conversation about the issues that affect them at school? What scope for co-determination can be created in everyday teaching?

The workshop also provides a space for dialogue: we want to hear from you - the educational professionals who work with pupils on a daily basis - which topics you think are particularly controversial at school at the moment and need a stage. We will pass these findings on to the new management of the GRIPS theatre and the committee.

Just like the results of five workshops that we will be holding in schools this season to ask pupils what they want from GRIPS Theatre in the future.

With Anna-Sophia Fritsche, theatre educator at the GRIPS Theatre

Prospective teachers use their words to provide insights into their observations of everyday school life. In workshops with rap and spoken word artist Lila Sovia aka Lavender Szymula and our theater pedagogy, they are prepared for the poetry slam stage.

This year, the Praxisschock slam will take place at Hansaplatz.
In cooperation with the Humboldt University of Berlin

Date: 24. January 2025, 7 pm
Venue: GRIPS Hansaplatz

See through!
A training course for teachers on the Augenblick mal! Festival 2025. 6.5.+7.5. 9-18 h
The five Berlin children's and youth theatres cooperating with Augenblickmal - ATZE Musiktheater, FELD Theater, GRIPS Theater, Theater an der Parkaue and Theater STRAHL - invite you to an advanced training course accompanying the festival. Through jointly experienced performances, discussions and workshops as well as theatre pedagogical practice, a methodological toolkit for theatre in the school context will be conveyed. Participants will gain an insight into the variety of themes and aesthetics of contemporary theatre for young audiences.

The event is recognised by the Berlin Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family as further training for teachers.
Fortbildungsnummer: 25.1-125685
Link to the training registration: https://fortbildungen.berlin/training/125685.

Please register both on the Senate Administration website and directly at the GRIPS Theatre:
anna-sophia.fritsche(at)grips-theater.de