Contents: Wolfgang Schneider: Theatre for Early Years? Questions about Qualifications – Gerd Taube: First steps. Aesthetic peculiarities of the «Theatre for Early Years» – Carlos Herans: Why «Theatre for Early Years»? Memories and highlights of artistic experiences – Ana Lúcia Goulart de Faria/Sandra Regina Simonis Richter: Education meets theatre. Pedagogical remarks about the role of arts in early childhood – Geesche Wartemann: Wechselspiele - Playing with interplay. Staging the theatrical structure, and the fragility of the ground rules, in «Theatre for Early Years» – Ute Pinkert: Starting all over again? Changing ways of perception through theatre - not only for young children – János Novák: The joy of re-discovering the world. ‘Communitas’ and streaming in the performances made for babies – Wolfgang Schneider: The category of simplicity and the complexity of the theatre. Art education requirements, neurobiological justification and cultural policy considerations for the dramatic arts beginning with earliest childhood – Dan Höjer: Big drama for small spectators. Unga Klara’s Swedish experiment – Charlotte Fallon/Michel van Loo: Babies and theatre. Notes about the imagination on stage – Agnès Desfosses: Little ones and adults, alive and aware. Theatre brings together – Stephan Rabl: Surprise. Creating «Theatre for Early Years» between everything and nothing – Ivica Šimić: «Dance and movement is a natural choice of language». The art of making theatre art for small children – Cate Fowler: Installation theatre. Creating a performance space for babies and toddlers – Megan Alrutz: Visionaries wanted! Theatre for very young audiences in the United States – Gabi dan Droste: Distinguished theatre for young children. About the European network Small Size – Roberto Frabetti: Does theatre for children exist? An unlikely model – Myrto Dimitriadou: Theatre and children are beautiful and ‘ding dong’ … Artistic processes in theatre work for the smallest of the small (A letter to the editor) – Melanie Florschütz/Barbara Kölling: The discovery of the small child as a spectator. The performer Melanie Florschütz and the director Barbara Kölling in a discussion on «Theatre for Early Years» – Jo Belloli: Unearthing the potential. Exploring «Theatre for Early Years» in the UK – Sarah Argent/Kevin Lewis: «I was struck by the difference in age between us, but by the similarity in hairstyles». Journeying out of the blue.