TUSCH (Theater & Schulen)

The TUSCH (Theater und Schulen) 

concept is rooted in partnerships between Berlin theatres and schools through which theatre-based projects are developed. The program is under the jurisdiction of the Berliner Senat für Bildung, Jugend und Sport and involves around 30 theatres and schools.

For more information go to www.tusch-berlin.de.

Our drama teachers, Inka-Charlotte Palm and Minna Partanen are currently writing and improvising for the third time, and striving to put a piece together for the next TUSCH Präsentationswoche in March 2013.

Since the TUSCH cooperations are set for a period of three years, we are currently looking for a new partner school to set out for a new TUSCH adventure starting August 2013.

2010 - 13

English Theatre Berlin´s current TUSCH-partner is the HEINRICH-SCHLIEMANN-GYMNASIUM in Prenzlauer Berg. Our partnership with the school came about because a very dedicated teacher, Mechthild Pieper, who had been a long-standing fan of English Theatre Berlin, had set up an English-language drama Wahlpflichtfach. So it came almost naturally that the annual drama project for the TUSCH was created by her first English drama class.

In 2012, the Tusch project contributed to English Theatre Berlin´s Science & Theatre project presenting a production called DESIGNER GENES, a multimedia piece about synthetic biology where Juliet met a genetically enhanced Romeo.

2007 - 09

The fourth TUSCH project set up a partnership between ETB and the NELSON-MANDELA-Schule in Charlottenburg.

2008:  The class decided to create a play of their own: PINK!  All is not what it seems - Starting from the intense emotions anger,  jealousy and deception, we finally ended up with deciding on only one of them.We were looking for the phenomenon “DECEPTION” in our lives. Where do we come across that concept in our society and especially in our every day lives and experience? We found out that it is present each and every single day. Each and every single day that we step outside our houses, ride a bus or turn on the radio or TV. No matter if we just want to read a newspaper or a magazine, it’s there. Deception is part of our daily life and we cannot escape from it. 

2006/2007

In 2006 ETB started a TUSCH partnership with the SCHILLER-OBERSCHULE in Charlottenburg. ETB Workshop Co-Ordinator Priscilla Be teamed up with the teacher Christine Brown and her ninth grade English Class. The subject they chose to theatrically explore was BODY IMAGE.

2004/2005

In August 2004 English Theatre Berlin started a TUSCH partnership with the SOPHIE-SCHOLL-OBERSCHULE in Schöneberg. ETB´s Artistic Director, Günther Grosser, and British actor, Tomas Spencer, teamed up with Kristina Tendel, teacher at the Sophie-Scholl-Oberschule, and 15 students of Grade 12 to work on their version of Louis Sachar´s exciting play HOLES.

2002/2003/2004

ETB´s first TUSCH project, SOUTH AFRICA AWAKENINGS - From Tribal Beginnings to 2004, was developed during a two-year partnership with the MARTIN-BUBER-OBERSCHULE where our creative team, Jesta Phoenix (writer), Nicholas Grew (music composer) and Nooreen Shah-Preusser (director), together with students and teachers from the school developed a production based on the history of South Africa. For the first year of the project the work concentrated on tribal beginnings to 1994, the second year focused on the years 1994 to 2004 - corresponding well with the 10th anniversary of freedom in the new South Africa.