Wigs, Make-up and Special Make-up Effects for Stage and Screen

The course on Wigs, Make-up and Special Make-up Effects for Stage and Screen at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding is unique in its form worldwide. All aesthetic, conceptual and stylistic aspects of the versatile professional field of make-up design are taught and trained at the highest level.

Degree Bachelor of Arts
Standard period of study 6 semesters
Start Winter semester
ECTS Credits 210
Language requirements German (min. B2)
Fee only semester contribution of approx. 85 € to the Studierendenwerk (Student services)
Application deadline January/February

Drawing and modeling exercises:

Every second wednesday from 18:00 to 21:00, drawing and modeling exercises take place with sculptor and lecturer Gustav Mayer.
For further information, please contact the student advisory service at maske@theaterakademie.de.

Zudem gibt es die Möglichkeit, Gustav Mayers Modellier-Workshop zu besuchen, der vom 06.11. bis 08.11.2025 stattfindet. Weil der Platz auf 10 Personen begrenzt ist, bitten wir Sie um eine Anmeldung per Mail an maske@theaterakademie.de.

What is it about?

The focus of the course is on learning artistic and analytical skills and developing the creative personality of a make-up artist. Thanks to the well-founded and wide-ranging training, graduates have an excellent placement rate in theatre and film at home and abroad.

Due to a possible interlinking in the 6th semester, both courses can be studied in a total of eight semesters, i.e. in four years.

Cooperation Partner

The Wigs, Make-up and Special Make-up Effects for Stage and Screen course is a cooperative model of the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding and the University of Music and Theatre Munich.
The training takes place at the Theaterakademie in the Prinzregententheater in Munich.

Hochschule für Musik und Theater München

Further partners include:

“My guiding principle for the course was coined by August Everding: 'We must not chase after a taste, we must form it'.”
Prof. Verena Effenberg
Head of the Wigs, Make-up and Special Make-up Effects for Stage and Screen Course at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding

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