"Switch! How television can actually help our improv skills." - improv workshop with Lena Breuer (DEU)

Saturday 21. March at 15:30 - 18:30

Tallinna Rahvaülikool Vanalinna maja

Switch! How television can actually help our improv skills.

Watching television is considered one of the less inspiring hobbies if you’re into art, improv and theatre. I disagree. We can learn a lot from the world of TV to improve our improv.
We’ll be looking into edits, perspectives, forms of storytelling and finding the clue to the story in a short time. All of these are techniques used in the world of TV as well. They can be used to create a fun and fast form of improv. Besides the techniques, we’ll also go through a set of different TV formats and apply them in our scenes.

Because Lena is not only working as an improviser, but also as a professional TV and Radio producer for the biggest broadcasting stations in Germany, she really knows what she is doing. No fake news.


Lena Breuer studied acting and journalism and lost her heart to improv 15 years ago.

Today, she is teaching and performing in Germany and all over Europe. She is the artistic director of Impro Köln, one of Germany´s biggest professional improv theaters with over 20 weekly classes and weekly performances. She taught and performed at German and international festivals worldwide and worked with improv superheroes like Keith Johnstone and Patti Stiles, in physical and scripted theatre, camera acting and clowning. She is the co-founder and co-artistic director of the Impro Fest Bielefeld - an international improv festival evolving from the dark pandemic times.

Lena is also working as a professional TV producer for Germany's biggest tv stations like ZDF, WDR, ARD and Arte. She is producing documentaries and reports about political and social topics, working worldwide. Lena has been in many radio shows on German radio – as a host, but also, as a reporter and sidekick.


This is an improv workshop organised by Rahel Otsa Improkool. You can find more information about improv and ways to get connected here: www.improkool.ee/

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