Three-year funding for children's and youth theatre

Description

The Cultural Department of the City of Munich is once again awarding a three-year grant for the independent children's and youth theatre scene in Munich. The maximum amount to be applied for is 10,000 euros per calendar year, or a maximum of 30,000 euros for three years. The total funding amount should be divided equally over the funding period. Up to 150,000 euros are available for the years 2026 to 2028.

objective
The aim is to support professional actors in the independent children's and youth theatre scene in Munich. The funding is intended to enable production-independent measures for structural and/or artistic development and to provide the funding recipients with planning security over three years.

The three-year funding can be applied for to cover non-production-related costs, e.g. for further training, artistic coaching, networking formats, project-related support with office work (e.g. distribution list creation), creation of professional communication material (e.g. website, photos, films), project-related rental of rehearsal rooms or investments in technology.

evaluation criteria
Evaluation criteria are in particular

• Meaningfulness, comprehensibility and realistic realisation of the project idea
• Meaningfulness and comprehensibility of the calculation
• recognisable structural and/or artistic development
  (Key question: What should have been achieved after three years?)

Awarding
The City Council of the City of Munich decides on the awarding of project funding on the recommendation of a jury.

funding period
The projects mentioned must always be realised in the corresponding calendar year.

application procedure

Each applicant group or individual actor* can only submit one application for three-year funding. It is possible for several applicants to join forces.
An additional application in another funding area (e.g. scholarship or production funding for children's and youth theatre) is possible.

Grant forms and guidelines

Applications must be submitted via the it@M online portal. The short URL is: muenchen.de/projektantrag-dk

The full address is: https://service.muenchen.de/intelliform/forms/01/06/06/kulturfoerderung/index

The general funding guidelines and the formal, content-related and qualitative funding criteria of the City of Munich, which can also be found on our website, apply.

Prerequisites

Applications are open to individual performers and groups from the performing arts for young audiences who can demonstrate several years of professional and individually distinctive work and whose artistic focus is in Munich.

Required documents

Mandatory
The completed application form (online portal) must be submitted. The following must be enclosed:

• Project description (detailed for 2026, outlined for 2027 and 2028; maximum four A4 pages)
• Calculation (detailed for 2026, outlined for 2027 and 2028)
• Short biography of the applicant(s) and any central participants, description of previous professional activities (training, productions, festival performances, links to videos etc.)

By submitting an application, applicants agree to the terms and conditions of the call for applications. Applications that do not comply with the terms and conditions cannot be considered.

Further current calls for applications in the field of performing arts can be found at
www.muenchen.de/kulturausschreibungen

Legal basis

All valid submissions are presented to the jury for children's and youth theatre in the independent scene, which is appointed by the City Council. It makes a selection and recommends selected projects to the city council.
The final decision will be made by the Culture Committee, probably at its meeting at the end of September 2025, after which the applicants will be notified.