Performing game - school theater

There has been a theater focus at the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein for over 10 years. Theater workshops were held again and again as part of the school culture budget until we ventured into a publicly shown play in 2012. The play “The Cosmic Family” by Barbara Marx-Hubbard took up quite complex biblical material and retold the story of creation.

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The range of our plays ranges from the story of a young athlete in “Peaceful Warrior”, to the play “On the Run” written by a Raumberg student himself, as well as Lessing’s classic “Nathan the Wise” to the updated version of the Nibelungen saga by Moritz Rinke in “Siegfried’s Women.”

The design options in the subject of “performing games” are diverse, and very different interests and abilities are addressed. Because theater is interdisciplinary, different abilities and skills are experienced and realized.

It requires teamwork, a willingness to coordinate, discuss, structure and, above all, perseverance. The acting adaptation of a piece is the “experienced” interpretation of the text. This form of holistic learning trains perception, mobilizes the senses, young people experience their own possibilities of expression, experience themselves and their classmates in a new and different way than in regular lessons. This also enables the accompanying teachers to perceive the young people entrusted to them in their entirety and, above all, with their strengths. Fears are reduced and overcome, which strengthens self-confidence and is therefore an important contribution to the personal development of young people.

Many reactions and positive feedback motivate the actors to commit themselves far beyond the usual level. When the stage workers, actors, those responsible for the lighting technology and the many helping hands in the background have brought a play of impressive quality to the stage, the overwhelmingly good feeling of having "passed with flying colors" remains. Performing games thus become a continuous form of learning.