Folkwang University of the Arts is dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary collaboration across various artistic disciplines, including music, theater, dance, design, and academic studies.

With a diverse community of approximately 1,600 students and 420 educators, Folkwang University of the Arts serves as a dynamic hub for artistic expression and academic inquiry, contributing significantly to cultural discourse both nationally and internationally.

[3] The school's founders, opera director Rudolf Schulz-Dornburg [de], stage designer Hein Heckroth and choreographer Kurt Jooss, regarded this Folkwang as a symbol for the arts as a unified whole, rather than divided into separate classes.

The Folkwang University unites training in music, theatre, dance, design, and scholarship, in order to encourage collaboration among the arts.

[4] Public events take place at the Folkwang University on its six in-house stages and in collaboration with cultural institutions of the region, such as the Philharmonie Essen [de], the Schauspiel Bochum, Musiktheater im Revier, the Duisburg Philharmonic, the Wuppertaler Bühnen and the Ruhrfestspiele.