A Long Story Made Short

What is ACT? ACT is an acronym for "Anglicists' Contemporary Theatre". Scuttlebutt is that ACT was founded during the 1960s and was, until early 2010, the only English speaking theatre group at the university. Although the stage was dark for a few years, ACT has, overall, remained active since its inception.

Participants are from all over the world and their fields of study are not limited to English. Students from all over Germany and countries such as the United States, Bulgaria, Croatia, Turkey, Australia, Greece, Ireland, the Czech Republic, India, and Russia have all found a home on the ACT stage. ACT has been fortunate enough to use the talents and expertise of students studying Informatics, Business and Economics, Humanities, Modern Languages, and virtually every other discipline offered at the Universität des Saarlandes.

The Long Story as a PDF Download

In early 2010, ACT enjoyed the privilege to be working with "arteatro" and other theatre companies during the International Student Theatre Festival at the Universität des Saarlandes. It was exactly there where the idea emerged to present the history of each group in a more or less comprehensive, and, least not forget, in a practical, concise way.

• ACT: The Story so Far
  "Eine kurze Geschichte der Theatergruppe" (auf deutsch)
  Excerpt:
  Was ist ACT und wieso spielen die überhaupt auf englisch? Schlägt man ein Wörterbuch auf um die Bedeutung dieses Wortes zu erfahren, wird man gleich mit einer Vielzahl von Verwendungsmöglichkeiten des Wortes „act“ konfrontiert. Da heißt es u.a. „to take action“ in einem monolingualen Werk. Schaut man sich ein bilinguales Werk an, wird man, oder frau, schnell fündig - denn das Verb „to act“ bedeutet schauspielern, darbieten, etwas auf der Bühne vortragen, oder als Nomen betrachtet eben „Akt.“
  

• ACT: The Story so Far (NOT YET AVAILABLE)
  "A Short History of ACT" (in English) COMING SOON