Advanced training course for working with classic audio description in theatre
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Create accessible culture with classic audio description! In our basic training course, you learned the basics of audio description step by step and wrote your first descriptions for blind and visually impaired people.
The advanced training course offers you the opportunity to work as a team of sighted, blind or visually impaired people to create a complete audio description for your own ongoing theatre production and bring it to the AD premiere. You will be accompanied throughout by instructors with many years of experience in audio description.
Important: To attend the advanced training course, you must have already successfully completed the basic training course.
All information can be found here.
Information
Target group: Teams of three, consisting of one blind or visually impaired person and two sighted persons
Participation requirements: Participation in the advanced training course is only possible as a team and only after prior participation in the basic training course.
Speaker: Matthias Huber
Scope: 3-day intensive training plus editorial support during the writing process, live testing and correction of the audio description on site, feedback after the AD premiere
Date: By individual arrangement from June 2026 to December 2026
Location: 3-day intensive training course at the respective venue or in the Un-Label studio, editorial support online, live testing at the performance venue.
Language: German spoken language
Content
Create your own complete audio description of a theatre production! In this advanced training course, you will deepen your knowledge by working on a production-related project and implementing a complete audio description project under the guidance of instructor Matthias Huber. Working together as a team consisting of one blind or visually impaired author and two sighted authors, you will create and narrate an audio description for a theatre production (max. length: 2 hours) step by step. During a three-day intensive training course, you will lay the textual foundations for this, which will be finalised under the editorial supervision of the instructor and tested and finalised live on site before the AD premiere.
At the end of this training course, your production will be equipped with a finished audio description, and you will be able to create audio descriptions independently as part of a team, as well as design and implement all the associated components. As the content is tailored to the respective production, the schedule will be determined individually for each group.
Note:
A maximum of three productions can be supported in total.
Costs
Contribution towards the costs of advanced training:
For 1 team (2 sighted + 1 blind/visually impaired person):
€540 + advance booking fee (e.g. students, freelance artists)
€890 + advance booking fee (e.g. employees of independent ensembles)
€1.220 + advance booking discount (e.g. employees of large cultural institutions)
Contribution towards costs for basic and advanced training together*:
For 1 team (2 sighted + 1 blind/visually impaired person) according to self-assessment:
€870 + advance booking discount (e.g. students, freelance artists)
€1.440 + advance booking fee (e.g. employees of independent ensembles)
€1.950 + advance booking fee (e.g. employees of large cultural institutions)
*The prices quoted apply to immediate registration for basic and advanced training together. If you register for advanced training at a later date, the price increases by 20%.
At the end, you will not only receive confirmation of your qualification, but also a finished audio description for your own production. By the way: if you commission a classic audio description, it usually costs between €4,000 and €9,000.
Speaker
Matthias Huber
Matthias Huber, who is sighted, is a freelance director, dramaturge and author of audio descriptions. In 2013, he established an AD team at Schauspiel Leipzig and initiated a tactile guidance system at the theatre. Since 2018, he has been working throughout Germany for various theatres, festivals and theatre groups, always in a team of blind and sighted authors. In 2021, he was part of the disability-led performance ‘(We don’t) [kehr]’ by and with Jana Zöll/Steven Solbrig at Un-Label, and in 2023 he was editorially responsible for the accessibility pages of ‘theaterübersetzen.de’, a website of the International Theatre Institute, Centre Germany (ITI). Matthias Huber is a board member of the Association for the Promotion of Leipzig OFF Theatre (LOFFT) and a member of Hörfilm e.V., the association of German film describers.
Accessibility
All event rooms are wheelchair accessible. Assistance dogs are welcome.
If required, we can provide work assistance or mobility assistance on site. Please be sure to indicate this when registering.
Further information
Address: Un-Label Studio | Hosterstr. 1-5 | 50825 Cologne-Neuehrenfeld
The Lenauplatz stop (barrier-free) on KVB line 5 (Dom / Hbf – Ossendorf) is located in the immediate vicinity of the building at Hosterstraße 1-5.
Departure times (KVB)
For questions and further information:
Charlott Dahmen
beratung@un-label.eu
Tel. +49 (221) – 5501544
The continuing education and training programme is made possible by the Access Maker – Innovationshub project.
