BDAT

ABOUT US

Bund Deut­scher Ama­teur­thea­ter (BDAT) was foun­ded 1892 and is one of the big­ge­st asso­cia­ti­ons for per­for­ming arts in Euro­pe today. Being publi­cly reco­gni­zed and sup­por­ted by federal funds, BDAT repres­ents Ger­man ama­teur thea­t­re nati­onwi­de and on inter­na­tio­nal levels in the field of arts, cul­tu­re, politics and socie­ty. The basis for BDAT’s cul­tu­ral and edu­ca­tio­nal poli­cy work is the mem­bership of near­ly 2400 thea­t­re ensem­bles. Nati­onwi­de teaching pro­gram­mes and fur­ther edu­ca­ti­on semi­nars qua­li­fy our mem­bers and deepen their thea­t­re know­led­ge. On an inter­na­tio­nal level, BDAT in alli­an­ce with Bun­des­ar­beits­ge­mein­schaft (BAG) Spiel & Thea­ter mutual­ly form the Natio­nal Cen­tre of the world­wi­de Inter­na­tio­nal Ama­teur Thea­t­re Asso­cia­ti­on (AITA/IATA). Among others, BDAT is a mem­ber of the Cen­tral Euro­pean Com­mit­tee (CEC) of AITA/IATA, of EFAT (Euro­pean Forum for Ama­teur thea­t­re), of Arbeits­ge­mein­schaft deutsch­spra­chi­ger Ama­teur­thea­ter­ver­bän­de (AddA) and of the Inter­na­tio­na­les Thea­ter­in­sti­tut (ITI).

In Octo­ber 2016 BDAT began a co-operation with the Insti­tut für Thea­ter­wis­sen­schaft Uni­ver­si­tät Leipzig/Centre of Com­pe­ten­ce for Thea­t­re.