Alexander May (director, 1970)

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Alexander May (born December 16, 1970 in Trier ) is a German theater director and director for drama , music theater and audio books .

Life

Alexander May first completed an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor and stone mason and worked in this profession for several years. He worked as a stone restorer in the antique collection of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin .

In 1999 he founded the independent theater group “Fragment”, with which he realized numerous productions in Berlin. In parallel, he worked as an assistant director with Claus Peymann , Thomas Langhoff and Christoph Schlingensief, among others .

From 2001 to 2005 he was assistant director at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich , where he worked with Barbara Frey and Jan Bosse , among others . In 2005 he staged Genua 01 by Fausto Paravidino in the Munich stables . Alexander May has been working as a freelance director since 2005.

He has staged at the Bavarian State Theater , Schauspiel Essen , Theater Trier , Theater Augsburg , State Theater Nuremberg , Theater Osnabrück , Schauburg Munich , Chamber Opera Munich and at the Salzburg Festival .

In 2011 he staged the generation drama Eine Familie by the American playwright Tracy Letts at the Trier Theater . His production was nominated in 2012 as the audience favorite for the “Theater Mask”, the culture award of the “Society of Friends of Trier Theater”. In the 2014/15 season he realized Aeschylus ' family tragedy Die Orestie at the Trier Theater .

From the 2015/16 season he worked as artistic director and stage manager at the Pforzheim Theater.

In the transition season 2017/18 he took over the duties of chief dramaturge and director as a member of the theater management of the Trier theater .

From 2018 to 2020 he worked as deputy director , chief dramaturge and director at the Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss .

Alexander May has been staging the annual arena show of the Kaltenberg knight tournament with over 200 participants since 2017 . The event takes place in the Kaltenberger Arena in front of over 10,000 spectators.

Productions

2019

  • All the beautiful by Duncan Macmillan, drama // Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss
  • The fight of the brothers by Thomas Limpinsel // Kaltenberg knight tournament

2018

2017

2016

  • Man with a grand piano, musical for one person and a grand piano by Arpad Bondy // Theater Pforzheim
  • The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart // Theater Osnabrück
  • Hamlet , play by William Shakespeare // Theater Pforzheim
  • Hansel and Gretel , opera by Engelbert Humberdinck // Theater Pforzheim

2015

  • The Coronation of Poppea , opera by Claudio Monteverdi // Theater Pforzheim
  • Tschick & pictures of your great love , two plays by Wolfgang Herrndorf // Theater Pforzheim
  • Nabucco , opera by Giuseppe Verdi // Theater Pforzheim
  • Germanicus, opera by Georg Philipp Telemann // Theater Osnabrück
  • Alexandra or the dream of flying // Pasinger Fabrik Munich
  • The Oresty , play by Aeschylus // Theater Trier

2014

  • The Schimmelreiter after Theodor Storm // Theater Osnabrück
  • Comedian Harmonists, musical by Franz Wittenbrink and Gottfried Greiffenhagen // Theater Osnabrück

2013

  • Falstaff, opera by Antonio Salieri, Chamber Opera Munich // Schloss Nymphenburg Munich
  • The big booklet, opera, world premiere by Sidney Corbett // Theater Osnabrück

2012

  • We were (la vie de marchendise), Wiliam Pellier (German by Frank Weigand and Leyla-Claire Rabih) // Theater Osnabrück
  • Tschick , play version by Robert Koall // Theater Osnabrück
  • Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe // Drama Manufactory Nördlingen

2011

  • Death of a bitch, theater project based on Euripides // Theater Osnabrück
  • A family, play by Tracy Letts // Theater Trier

2010

  • Osama the hero, drama by Dennis Kelly // drama food
  • But I'm still alive, a theater project // Landestheater Memmingen
  • The robbers , play by Friedrich Schiller // Schauburg Munich
  • The dwarfs by Markus Heitz // Theater tent, Munich Castle
  • The next innocence by Kristo Šagor // Landestheater Schwaben

2009

  • Il re pastore , opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart // Theater Augsburg
  • Saved, play by Edward Bond // Schauburg Munich
  • Speer, play by Esther Vilar // Congress Hall Nuremberg

2008

  • The robbers, play based on Friedrich Schiller // Theater Trier
  • Poets guest, scenic reading series of the Salzburg Festival
  • A bit of calm before the storm by Theresia Walser // Kongresshalle Nürnberg
  • Winter drama by Jon Fosse // Landesbühne Schwaben / Memmingen
  • The fat years are over for Hans Weingartner // Kongresshalle Nürnberg

2007

  • Request concert from Franz Xaver Kroetz // Hoffmannkeller
  • Miss Julie by August Strindberg // Comedy Augsburg
  • To die for by Ditte Schupp // white BOX

2006

  • Bungee jumping or the story of the golden fish, psychological thriller fairy tale crime thriller by Jaanätte // Landesbühne Schwaben / Memmingen
  • Three sisters take the bus to Anton Chekhov // Munich
  • The boot and his socks, clown-like play by Herbert Achternbusch // Landesbühne Schwaben / Memmingen

2005

  • Josefine Mutzenbacher , Staged Reading // Munich
  • Genoa 01 after Fausto Paravidino | German by Georg Holzer // Bavarian State Theater

2003

  • Somewhere in the world, songs and texts from exile // Theater in the House of Art
  • Racing pig Rudi Rüssel , based on the children's book by Uwe Timm // Bayerische Staatsschauspiel

2001

  • Lem On Space, Scenic Reading Series // Pavilion on Weinbergsweg in the Volkspark, Berlin
  • The curve from Tankred Dorst // Tacheles, Berlin

1998

  • Spaceship Superprice, Freie Theatertage Berlin

1997

1996

  • OUT: AWAY: GO! by Rik Belenk // Theater ship la mar

Radio play / audio book (director)

2020

2019

2018

2017

  • The man who dared to dream by Graeme Simsion , audio book, Argon Verlag

2015

2013

  • The iron summer by Angelika Felenda, audio book, Der Hörverlag

2010

Prizes and awards

Prices

  • The production "The Fat Years Are Over" at the State Theater in Nuremberg received the "Best Production 2008/09" award

Nominations

  • Nominated for the Trier theater mask for the best artistic performance of 2011 at the Trier Theater.
  • Honoring the production of Tracey Letts "A Family"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Alexander May ( Memento from August 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Vita. Official website of Theater Pforzheim . Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Theater Pforzheim becomes an "offshoot" of Trier Vita. In: Trierischer Volksfreund from July 29, 2014. Retrieved on August 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ The Oresty - Alexander May makes a sad diagnosis in Trier with Aeschylus' family tragedy of our present ; Performance review from February 21, 2015 at Nachtkritik.de. Retrieved August 13, 2016
personal data
SURNAME May, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director for musical theater, drama and audio books
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH trier