Festivalcampus Niedersachsen

For the eighth consecutive year, Festival Theaterformen is hosting the Festivalcampus Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony Festival Campus): more than forty students of cultural and theatre studies, performing arts, scenography as well as theatre pedagogy from five universities in Lower Saxony are coming to Hanover. They are invited to participate in the Festival Theaterformen, discuss their experiences with the artists and reflect on the performances within seminars and workshops.

Thanks to the support of Stiftung Niedersachsen, in 2025 the project can again take place in close cooperation with the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, which hosted the festivalcampus in May. The students from Hanover, Hildesheim, Braunschweig, Osnabrück und Lüneburg closely participate in two festivals experiencing a variety of aesthetics that allow for an artistic and interdisciplinary exchange that might not be possible within a seminar room.

Lecturers from various disciplines enable the students to take their perspectives beyond their particular disciplinary horizon. Within the frame of the Festivalcampus, Festival Theaterformen and KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen offer artists and academics of tomorrow a space for critical reflection and engaged dialogue: the basis of vivid and socially relevant cultural and artistic work.