Bachelor of Arts Speech Art and Speech Education (Sprechkunst & Sprecherziehung) at Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart

Eight-semester undergraduate programme devoted to the art and pedagogy of speaking. Students train both as speech artists on stage and at the microphone and as speech educators and communication trainers. The programme is described as unique in Germany.

Faculty: Institute for Speech Art  |  Department: Institute for Speech Art  |  Duration: 8 semesters (4 years), 240 ECTS  |  Study mode: German-taught, full-time; degree: Bachelor of Arts  |  Intake: Winter semester  |  Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

What you will study

Semesters 1 to 4 cover body work, breath and voice training, scene and improvisation training, plus German studies, speech science, anatomy and phonetics, with individual lessons in the main subject, singing and media speaking; the first phase ends with an artistic intermediate examination. The main phase builds on speech art, speech education, media speaking and rhetoric.

Career pathways

Careers include speaker, voice trainer, speech educator, rhetoric trainer, presenter, advertising, audiobook and news speaker.

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