Brief description

The federal association showing play inc. (BDVS) is a union founded in 1981 of the land study groups active in the federal states for showing play and school theatre (at that time: Federal study group for the showing play at school inc.).

The BDVS exerts itself for the artistic-aesthetic dimension of the cultural education. He searches the exchange and the cooperation with school and extracurricular facilities which open to the youthful fields of experience and spheres of activity in the sensuous-aesthetic area and allow the self-confident growing up in a media-intensified sphere. Aesthetic education decisively contributes to the comprehensive learning. That's why exerts itself of the BDVS for the renewal of school.

The BDVS wants to get the explaining play in the curricula and framework directives and in the education reality of the school one of his meaning for the education and personnel education of the adolescent adequate space. Aim is to set up the organizational and curricularen conditions on "showing play" in the Sekundarbereich I and II of the schools. She gets on in this connection as a forum for the contemporary development of the play educational theory and play practise at the schools.

Play forms belonging to schoolboy and theatrical forms as an authentic expression of today's child culture and youth culture are promoted during advanced training events, workshops, school theatre festivals and trade conference. The BDVS represents the educational and artistic aims of the explaining play at school, compared with authorities and institutions. Further she sees an urgent job in the qualification of play leaders and play leaders, from disseminators and multipliers and exerts herself in this connection for the equipment of courses of studies "showing play" at the colleges. The work accompanying advanced training must be protected and be developed.

In addition, promotes of the meetings BDVS of play leaders and play leaders and play groups of the schools about the land borders and state borders away. She carries out yearly the "school theatre of the countries" - a meeting of theatrical groups at school from all federal states.