Partnerships

A model project for the cultural education for Berlin school classes

ALL students from GRIPS Fever schools should be able to go to the theatre, even those who have difficulties in financing their visit to the theatre. GRIPS Theater and its partners make this possible: Your school determines who needs financial support and can have the visit to the theatre paid. No evidence is decisive, but rather your unbureaucratic assessment.

With this assurance, every class of a GRIPS Fever school attends a performance in GRIPS Theater once a year. In this way, theatre becomes a natural part of your school profile. After attending the theatre, every GRIPS Fever school can book the free basic theatre workshop “With GRIPS on the stage”. This way, your students get into theatre themselves.

GRIPS box
Every GRIPS Fever school receives a GRIPS box. The contains a compilation of creative methods and materials with the aim of stimulating low-threshold creative learning processes in the classroom. The methods relate to the interdisciplinary topics of the Berlin framework curriculum and therefore also directly to the world of children and young people.
In free introductory workshops you can try out the handling of the GRIPS box in practice.

Click here for our video explaining the GRIPS box on YouTube!

Contact: Kalle Mille
Email: kalle.mille[at]grips-theater.de

GRIPS Theater has been working with daycare centres as part of TUKI since 2013. Since the 2018/19 season, the Barbrossastraße daycare centre and, since 2019/20, the Evangelical Hoffnungskirche as well, have been our partner daycare centres.

Based on the wishes of the children, topics are formulated, examined and made aesthetically and sensually tangible. Depending on the topic, excursions and encounters with experts are carried out in order to expand the spectrum of experience. The resulting impressions form the material from which an interactive performance with an audience emerges at the end.

Six theatres and six daycare centres each form artistic research communities for six months, in which children between the ages of four and six, artists and educators go on a “research trip” together.

For daycare centre children who cannot yet read and write, the research theatre offers a new field of early childhood cultural education: It focuses on experimental and exploratory theatre, which combines project learning (in connection with the Berlin daycare education program) with self-determined artistic processes. The idea of the research theatre takes up the children’s thirst for knowledge and connects it with aesthetic experiences. It moves between exploring the world and artistic practice and lives from the creative friction between reality and fantasy.

Direction: Katja Fillmann
Contact: Vera Düwel (School representative)
Tel.: 030 - 39 74 74 11
Email: tp[at]grips-theater.de

TUSCH is a cooperation network for cultural education that mediates, supports and promotes partnerships between Berlin schools and theaters. TUSCH currently has 21 active partnerships, over 200 schools and over 41 theaters have been involved since the project was founded in 1998. These partnerships make an important contribution to cultural education by promoting the active and comprehensive participation of young people in the cultural life of the city and anchoring theater as a natural part of everyday school life.

Various classes from the GRIPS Theater's TUSCH schools are accompanied by theater pedagogy for three years. This means that the pupils regularly visit the GRIPS Theater, gain an insight into the production processes behind the stage and receive comprehensive support from GRIPS in designing their own project.

While in the first year the GRIPS and the school get to know each other, initial joint artistic research is carried out as part of a project phase and this is then exhibited at the annual TUSCH festival, in the following two years there is the opportunity to create something entirely of their own: In years two and three, the students work with the GRIPS theater educators to develop their own projects such as plays or performances. These are then shown at the TUSCH festival and in the respective school.

More information on the program and registration for partnerships: https://tusch-berlin.de

There are currently GRIPS classes at these schools:
Comenius School 
Carl Kraemer School

The GRIPS classes are a cooperation project between the Joachim & Anita Stapel Foundation, the GRIPS Werke e.V. and the GRIPS Theater.

TUSCH support for the GRIPS Theater: Elisabeth Graf
Phone: 030 - 39 74 74 11
Email: tp[at]grips-theater.de

Dank der Unterstützung der Stapel Stiftung hat das GRIPS Theater insgesamt 6 GRIPS Klassen. Das Konzept der GRIPS Klassen beruht auf der theaterpädagogischen Begleitung von Schulklassen über vier Jahre.

Die Schüler*innen der GRIPS Klassen besuchen regelmäßig das Theater, um Stücke zu Themen anzusehen, die die Kinder und Jugendlichen betreffen, wobei die erste Vorstellung pro Schuljahr gemeinsam mit den Eltern besucht wird. Anschließend findet jeweils eine pädagogische Nachbereitung statt. Für die weiteren Jahre sind außerdem Theaterprojekttage vorgesehen und eine Projektwoche mit Präsentation für Eltern und Parallelklassen.

Grundschulen

• Galilei Grundschule in Kreuzberg betreut von dem Theaterpädagogen Stephan Behrendt, 4. - 6. Schuljahr (2022-2025)
• Wolkenstein Grundschule in Pankow betreut von dem Theaterpädagogen Stephan Behrendt, 3.- 6. Schuljahr (2022 – 2026)
• Hansa Grundschule in Tiergarten betreut von dem Theaterpädagogen Kalle Mille, 3. - 6. Schuljahr (2022 – 2026)

Oberschulen

• Caspar-David-Friedrich Oberschule in Marzahn betreut von der Theaterpädagogin Ellen Uhrhan, 8. - 10. Schuljahr (2022 bis 2025)
• Gail S. Halvorsen Schule in Steglitz-Zehlendorf betreut von dem Theaterpädagogin Kalle Mille, 8.-10. Schuljahr (2022 bis 2025)
• Martin Buba Oberschule in Spandau betreut von der Theaterpädagogin Jelena Bosanac in der Klasse 

 Wie Sie sich für eine GRIPS Klasse bewerben können, erfahren Sie hier.

GRIPS Klassen wird ermöglicht durch die Joachim und Anita Stapel Stiftung.