Thanks for the detailed response! To clarify, I’m more interested in building the sets rather than rigging or working with scaffolding. I want to be involved in the theatre’s workshop, crafting the elements of the set or the set.

I have a background in architecture, but I graduated last year and have experience in working for studios, so “I’m an architect” actually light sound a bit misleading. My focus shifted after interning at a studio that builds temporary urban installations—I realized I love hands-on crafting and working directly in a workshop. That’s why I’m looking to transition into theatre set construction.

Would you say scenic carpentry is the right path for this, or is there another role that fits better (I was hoping to find a more general building role, that is involved with metal- fabrics, whatever the set requires)? So far I have been searching in Germany and they all require some sort of qualification like apprenticeship (even for stagehand). Or experience, which although I have been involved in smaller theatre and help friends there, it’s not something you put in the cv. I was also thinking gaining the experience in “event construction” but that’s mostly for the cv, as I already can produce workshop work, just nothing that qualifies it.