Production funding for children's and youth theatre

Course description

In 2027, the City of Munich's Department of Culture will award grants totalling around 260,000 euros for professional children's and youth theatre productions from the independent scene. The funded productions should be exemplary for contemporary children's and youth theatre and have the potential to be groundbreaking and inspiring .objective The aim is to promote independent professional performing arts productions for young audiences at a high level of quality by means of diverse artistic and interdisciplinary forms of expression. Through their themes, their artistic realisation and their performance venues, children and young people with different cultural, social or physical backgrounds are to be reached, thereby enabling cultural participation. This corresponds to the basic principle of cultural education, which always combines education, social issues and culture.

Evaluation criteria

• Meaningfulness and comprehensibility of the project idea and calculation
• high-quality artistic work and convincing composition of the artistic participants
• Target group orientation (relevance of the topic for the target group, target group-orientated preparation, target group approach including choice of venues)

Award The City Council of the City of Munich decides on the award of funding on the recommendation of a jury .funding period The funding period ends on 31 December 2027, i.e. the production must take place in 2027, the premiere and further performances must be planned for 2027 .application procedure

Each applicant can only submit one application for production funding per year. An additional application in another funding area (e.g. grant 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: www.muenchen.de/projektantrag-dk

The full address is

https://service.muenchen.de/intelliform/forms/01/06/06/kulturfoerderung/index

The document "Information on the online application" is currently being revised. It will soon be available on this website.

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

Prerequisites

Individual theatre makers and theatre groups whose artistic focus is in Munich are eligible to apply. Project-related funding can cover production costs, premiere costs and up to five subsequent performances in the city of Munich. At least two of these must take place at decentralised venues in Munich.

Required documents

Mandatory

• The completed application form from the online portal must be submitted with a detailed calculation of the expected expenditure and income. The following must be enclosed
• Project description (maximum 9,000 characters)
• Overview of theatre productions already realised
• Naming of the artistic team including short biographies
• Declaration of intent of the planned venues for the premiere and subsequent performances

Please describe the artistic concept and the methods of realisation in your project description. We also ask you to describe your target group and how you will reach them (content, realisation, venue/s, public relations, etc.) By submitting your application, you declare your agreement with the terms and conditions of the call for applications. Applications that do not comply with the conditions of the call for proposals cannot be considered.

Application workshops

Together with Tanzbüro München, Theaterbüro München is offering an application workshop for the call:

8. May 2026, 10 am to 6 pmTo the application workshop

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

Legal basis

All valid submissions will be submitted to the jury for children's and youth theatre in the independent scene, which is appointed by the city council. It will make a selection and recommend selected projects to the City Council and the final decision will be made by the Culture Committee, probably at its meeting at the end of September 2026. The applicants will then be notified.