Master’s degree · Initial professional preparation
Schauspiel (Intensivstudiengang Master)
Acting (intensive Master's programme)
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig - Schauspielinstitut „Hans Otto“ · Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
- Award
- Master Schauspiel (Intensivstudiengang)
- Audience & level
- Adults
- Format
- In personRegelstudienzeit acht Semester
- Price
- Not published
About this program
Eight-semester intensive Master's in acting that needs no previous bachelor's degree: two years of basic modules in Leipzig followed by two years of advanced modules at a studio theatre (Dresden, Düsseldorf, Köln or Leipzig).
- Offering
- Degree program
- Fields
- Theatre acting, Screen acting
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Teaching language
- German
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Master’s degree
- Exact award
- Master Schauspiel (Intensivstudiengang)
- Award status
- Academic awardAwarded by a degree-granting institution.
- Awarding body
- Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ Leipzig
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- Regelstudienzeit acht Semester
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-time
- Teaching location
- Schauspielinstitut »Hans Otto«Dittrichring 21
Admissions and auditions
Audition required
- Monologues
- Application film (round 1, online): personal introduction, an excerpt of a classical and a modern monologue and a song, maximum 12 minutes in total
- Self-tape
- Yes
- In-person audition
- Yes
- Callback
- Yes
- Audition detail
- Two-stage procedure: online aptitude test, then in-person entrance exams (rounds 2 and 3) in Leipzig. Admission only for the winter semester (start in September).
- Prior education
- No previous bachelor's degree necessary
- Intakes
- Wintersemester 2027/28
- Deadlines
- Anmeldung im Online-Bewerbungsportal 01.11.-30.11.2026; Bewerbungsfilm bis 30.11.2026; Aufnahmeprüfungen (2. und 3. Runde) 02.02. bis 18.03.2027 in Leipzig
- Official instructions
- Application and audition instructions
Fees
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Performance opportunities
As published by the provider. Showcases and productions are opportunities to perform; they do not guarantee agents, auditions, casting, union eligibility or work.
- Productions
- Advanced modules take place at a studio theatre (Dresden, Düsseldorf, Köln or Leipzig); the institute also runs a Sommertheater
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: price, experience level.
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.
Sources (checked 16 October 2026)