This season, Schauspiel Leipzig continues a cooperation that has existed since 1965: Studio Leipzig. After two years of basic training at the University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” (HMT), nine students of the Institute for Drama “Hans Otto” will continue their education at Studio Leipzig and therefore in the very heart of the theatre.

During the second half of their training, the students will perform in repertory productions, have lessons with experienced colleagues from the acting company and show the results in public auditions and their own Studio Production at Diskothek. Actor Annett Sawallisch and dramaturg Matthias Döpke are Studio Leipzig’s directors.

Under the title of “Studio”, the students show their work on various stages of the theatre at regular intervals: They present their scene and monologue studies, Studio-shows that they have devised completely by themselves as well as small-scale scenic works or music projects.

The “Absolvierendenvorspiel (Graduates’ Presentation)” on the Main Stage on the morning of 8 October 2024 will be a special highlight for the eight students of the current Schauspielstudio. They will perform their best scenes, monologues and songs, the same that they will use to audition for their first jobs in the German-language theatre landscape. They will contribute to this season’s programme at Diskothek with their studio production: “Nullerjahre”, based on the novel by Hendrik Bolz and directed by Marco Damghani. And you can see them on Schauspiel Leipzig’s stages in productions like “Cabaret”, “America”, “Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui (The resistible Rise of Arturo Ui)”, “Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit)”, “Medea”, “Woyzeck” and “Nosferatu”.



Studio Leipzig’s members are:

Bruno Akkan
Louise Sophie Arnold
Luca-Noél Bock
Aicha-Maria Bracht
Joshua Dahmen
Sasha Hayes
Fritz Manhenke
Emmeline Puntsch