Schauspiel- und Regiekurse

Courses for Acting, Directing and Teaching on stage and online


 

The Director Prepares
21 – 23 November 2025
28 – 30 November 2025

The Director’s Tools
2 – 4 January 2026
9 – 11 January 2026

Rehearsal Methods
13 – 15 February 2026
20 – 22 February 2026

Interested to join for the second or third part? Contact us!

School of Directing

Jurij Alschitz

Three steps to professional directing

for emerging and experienced Directors, Drama Teachers, Theatre Pedagogues, for Actors with new professional perspectives

This unique online training programme is designed for those who have decided to pursue a directing career, as well as for all directors, theatre educators, actors and playwrights with professional experience, who wish to enhance their practical skills. It is aimed at those who want to learn important secrets of the profession. 

The 4-month intensive programme has three modules. In between, students receive extensive assignments so that they can develop the expertise they have gained into their own methodology. In this programme, Jurij Alschitz practices the Quantum Pedagogy he developed, which is based both on impulses and on a holistic concept of theatre.

The Director’s Rehearsal Methods

The true art of directing reveals itself in the ability to work with actors.

All rehearsal methods can be compared to keys with which you can, so to speak, “open” the actor, the role and the play. They, like all keys, are somewhat similar, but nevertheless differ in a small “prong” and therefore open different locks.


Update your Acting System

Christine Schmalor

Your personal combination of 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 acting courses 
from January – April 2026

Take advantage of the 10% discount for 2 courses, 20% for 3 courses and 30% for all 4 courses on all fees.


actors self-preparation

8 meetings | 2,5 hours each | plus 2 individual coachings
Weekly, Wed 25 Feb – 15 April 2026 at 18:00 – 20:30 UTC+1 

course fee: 360 €
early bird: 320 €

Use the early bird offer and register until 1st of February 2026

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Christine Schmalor

The Method for the self-preparation of the actor​

THE VERTICAL OF THE ROLE is already a classic in the European Theatre. The method was created by Dr. Jurij Alschitz 25 years ago. Over the years it has naturally changed, many steps have been adapted for online teaching and lead to even more self-reliance for the artists.

This method will help you prepare for a role throughout your life. The clear work steps give you certainty as to which tasks you can set yourself and in what order so that you can grasp a role in all its dimensions.


acting seminar

Sat 07 + Sun 08 March
Sat 14 + Sun 15 March
Sat 21 + Sun 22 March always at 12:00 – 14:30
UTC+1 

course fee: 280 €
early bird: 240 €

Use the early bird offer and register until 15th of February 2026

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Teacher: Christine Schmalor

artistic encounter with our cultural potential

Meet the dialogue in times of monologue.

Dialogue is a powerful tool in communication that releases enormous forces; they can hurt, but they can also heal; above all, they can release new dimensions of thought and action. We need dialogue with the Dialogue. The wisdom of the Dialogue can help us to discover a new potential for artistic and personal development. Dialogue requires us to open up – in doing so I also expose myself to risk – but without risk there is no artistic life.

Do you know the different laws of Dialogue on stage? You will open a new language…


Sat 21 + Sun 22 March 
Sat 11 + Sun 12 April
Sat 9 + Sun 10 May
Sat 30 + Sun 31 May 2026
at 15:00 – 17:30
(UTC+1)

course fee: 750 €
early bird: 700 €

The new Face of the Acting Teacher

Dr. Jurij Alschitz

Rethinking teaching, re-inventing oneself as pedagogue.

Jurij Alschitz invites you to become part of the first generation of quantum theatre teachers: “In this master class, you will encounter a new philosophy of teaching, where a lesson is understood as a living organism and the teacher as a field in which knowledge and ignorance, order and chaos, thought and action come together.”

This is a 3-month programme for all those who have set themselves the goal of training the next generation of actors and enabling them to perform in a theatre that we do not yet know today.

Passing on knowledge is a nobel tradition, but there is a danger of stagnation. This course is for all those who see teaching as a research process and who not only teach students, but are themselves a driving force for new forms of acting and stage presence.


 

18 + 19 April 2026
15:00 – 18:00
UTC+2

course fee: 160 €

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Jurij Alschitz
Research Seminar: new Technologies of Acting

For advanced practicing actors and directors

Dr Jurij Alschitz will talk about innovations in acting practice resulting from the application of quantum physics. At first glance they may seem impossible, but at second glance they show us the way to pioneering forms of acting.


art picnic

18 July – 2 August
Montecreto, Italy

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Use the early bird offer and register until 1st of April 2026

XVI International Theatre Summer Academy 2026

Artistic Direction: Dr Jurij Alschitz / International team of teachers

With its annual International Theatre Summer Academy, the World Theatre Training Institute offers a supplement to drama school programmes and therefore offers both students and professional theatre professionals a unique opportunity for personal advanced training.

Two courses for Acting and Directing
with a common theme:
From the Energy of the Word to the Energy of the Scene

This year’s academy will explore with you the relationship between the energy of the actor, the energy of words, the energy of performance, the energy of the stage, and the energy of the surrounding world.

ART PICNIC

“Nature is artificial, and art is natural.” (Oscar Wilde)

Both groups will end up working together about the profound interaction between art and the world around it. We will have the opportunity to hear, feel, and see how the energy of theatrical performance can energise the surrounding world and nature, and how the energy of nature can inspire actors to new forms of self-expression.


Indivdual acting education Schmalor Schauspiel Coaching

 

8 meetings as an individual course

online worldwide
or face-to-face in Berlin

Request today – start tomorrow

The Vertical of the Role – one-to-one

Christine Schmalor

Jurij Alschitz’s famous method for the self-preparation of the actor.
By working on a Vertical of the Role, I decide above all to change my own personal role: from that of a mere actor to that of an artist who – immediately recognisable to everyone – enters the stage with a specific weight.

New opportunity

Prepare your next role with this unique methodology in individual lessons with flexible timing.


Online Theatre Academy

⇒ calendar with all actual course dates and registration

Online Courses for actors, directors and trainers

  • find new formats of learning
  • integrate learning into your daily work
  • discovered new topics for your own theatre practice
  • meet colleagues from all over the world

The online format cannot replace the rehearsal room, but it can enrich it with new impulses in a completely different way.

Hybrid formats allow online + offline participation

The Online Theatre Academy offers flexible and affordable ways to further your education without much effort. There are experimental courses to discover, in small groups and with individual coaching.

Welcome!