[im] dortmund masterprogram

[Miklos Peternak]

Masterprogram Theater and Digitality at University of Applied Sciences 
and Arts in Dortmund, Germany
Deadline for the next artistic aptitude procedure: November 26th, 2025.
The whole procedure will be online.
The study is in English. Next start: Spring 2026.
Study costs: 324 € per semester (semesterfee for both EU and Non-EU 
students)
àFor students with a technical Bachelor-background as well as students 
with an artistic Bachelor-background (please do refer to
the general infopage for prerequisites and details.)
Explore new layers in storytelling by enlarging the theatrical toolbox: 
The new Master’s program “Theater
and Digitality” embraces performers, narrations, stages and technologies 
alike.
Theater stages have for thousands of years been the home for stories of 
humans (and other creatures) and their worlds. Theater
and the Performing Arts can permeate the present, the past and the 
future alike, can build bridges through times, can zoom out or
go into close-ups: onto hopes and dreams, enhancing wonders and abysses 
alike, looking through the surfaces of societies.
Theater, as an ever-contemporary artform, has at all times kept a 
curious and, at the same time, a critical eye on the inventions of
new technologies – wondering whether these inventions could be 
interesting for being incorporated on its stages. Very often, the
answer was “yes” (just think of electricity and cameras). Theater has 
always been created by storytellers with different expert
knowledge. The Master “Theater and Digitality” is therefore aimed at 
students with either artistic or technical background (or both)
– students, who are interested in exploring theatrical narrations in 
context with technologies.
The Master “Theater and Digitality“ is an interdisciplinary, 3 semester, 
English-language study at the Faculty of Design of FH
Dortmund – University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Next start of study 
will be the Springsemester 2026. Graduates will be
awarded the Master of Arts.
The study is implemented in cooperation of FH Dortmund’s Faculty of 
Design, of the worldwide renowned Academy for Theater and
Digitality (https://theater.digital/) and FH Dortmund’s Faculty of 
Computer Science.
Creativity, interdisciplinary expertise and critical thinking: The 
Master’s Program “Theater and Digitality” includes research and
development in the field of digital-technologically supported theatre 
and performative art. With its curriculum between technology,
storytelling, dramaturgy and performance, the study aims to provide 
students with a broad range of theoretical as well as practical
and application-oriented, professionally qualifying skills in the 
intersection between digital technologies and narratives on analog,
virtual and hybrid stages (including topics such as human-machine 
interfaces or the use of machine learning).