Students perform theater together online

In the winter semester 20/21, the Steinfußtheater, belonging to the Center for Higher Education and Lifelong Learning (zlw), began an online experiment. Students met up online once a week to rehearse a poem. Two videos of their work have been created. [Picture: Steinfußtheater] "At the beginning acting together online was a big challenge", says Daiva Sell from zlw. Nicole Schütte, Director of the the theater group, explains why: "All alone in your own room, sometimes with inquisitive housemates listening from the other side of a thin bedroom wall, you need to be brave enough to come out of yourself, to dance around, to do speech exercises, to shout or scream, to laugh or fool around." She adds that the students missed the rehearsal room and its perceived protective framework. Because of feedback problems, it was not possible for everyone to leave their microphone on. A maximum of three people were able to speak at once, and the participants were often only able to hear the voice of the director during rehearsals.