Diploma · Initial professional preparation
Schauspiel – Artist Diploma
Acting – Artist Diploma
Folkwang Universität der Künste · Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Award
- Artist Diploma
- Audience & level
- Adults
- Format
- In personRegelstudienzeit: 8 Semester in Vollzeit
- Price
- Not published
About this program
Eight-semester full-time acting programme (300 ECTS) covering traditional theatre forms as well as film, television, radio and performative arts.
- Offering
- Conservatory / diploma training
- Fields
- Theatre acting
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Teaching language
- German
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Diploma
- Exact award
- Artist Diploma
- Award status
- Academic awardAwarded by a degree-granting institution.
- Awarding body
- Folkwang Universität der Künste
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- Regelstudienzeit: 8 Semester in Vollzeit
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-timeFirst year at Campus Essen; from the second year mainly at the Folkwang Theaterzentrum, Campus Bochum.
- Credits
- 300 ECTSCredit systems differ between countries and institutions.
- Teaching location
- Folkwang Theaterzentrum, Campus Bochum
Admissions and auditions
Audition required
- Monologues
- First round: a classical monologue, a modern role and a self-written, titled piece; later rounds test movement, voice and speech and acting.
- In-person audition
- Yes
- Audition detail
- Die Feststellung der künstlerischen Eignung besteht aus einer mehrstufigen Präsenzprüfung mit praktischen Prüfungen.
- Prior education
- Nachweis der allgemeinen Hochschulreife, or exceptional artistic talent with at least a Mittlerer Schulabschluss
- Language requirements
- German CEFR B2 for non-German school qualifications
- Intakes
- Sommersemester (April)
- Deadlines
- Jeweils am 15. November für das darauf folgende Sommersemester (2026)
- Official instructions
- Application and audition instructions
Fees
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Sources and verification
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Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 16 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
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