Amélie Niermeyer

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Amélie Niermeyer (born October 14, 1965 in Bonn ) is a German theater director , opera director and professor of directing at the Mozarteum Salzburg , where she is the head of the drama and directing course at the Thomas Bernhard Institute.

Career

Niermeyer received a high school diploma in St. Louis , USA, in 1983 and the Abitur in Bonn in 1984. From 1984 to 1986 she interned at the Schauspiel Bonn , where she carried out her first directorial work with the Pädagogium-Theatergruppe Bonn. During a trip through Australia, she attended a drama school and completed a directing course with assistant director at the New Theater in Sydney . From 1986 to 1989 she studied German at the Universities of Bonn and Munich .

From 1988 to 1990 she was an assistant director at the Bavarian State Theater . She directed there from 1990 to 1992 and gained attention in 1991 with the production of Bettina Fless ' Memmingen , a play about abortion . Also write me in the sand by Inez van Dullemen , a play about incest , came because of his explosiveness on public interest. Alongside this contemporary piece were classics such as Spring Awakening (1992) and Iphigenie auf Tauris (1993). In 1992 Niermeyer was awarded the advancement award for women's research and women's culture from the city of Munich.

From 1991 to 1993 she was senior director at the Dortmund Theater , from 1993 to 1995 she returned to the Münchner Staatsschauspiel as in-house director. In 1995 she moved to the Schauspiel Frankfurt , where she became senior director and, for example, staged Miss Sara Sampson in 1996 . She has made guest appearances in Munich, Weimar , Jakarta , Los Angeles , at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and at the Deutsches Theater Berlin .

From 2001 to 2005 she was general director of the theater in Freiburg im Breisgau . There she staged A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like It in 2002 . The artistic direction of her directorship was repeatedly criticized in the national press. She ended her contract prematurely.

In 2006 she became general director at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . Three years later, she announced that she did not want to extend her contract, which expired in 2011. Her last production there was a Düsseldorf version in May 2011 with scenes by Lutz Hübner / Sarah Nemitz and Martin Heckmanns based on Horace McCoy's coup de grace from 1935. Since 2011 she has been director of the Salzburg Mozarteum and directs there the course for acting and directing, the Thomas Bernhard Institute.

She has also been working as an opera director since 2007, although her early productions in particular were received ungraciously by the critics. After this work at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, she staged Wozzeck by Alban Berg , La Clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi and the staged premiere of Max Brands Stormy Interlude in Salzburg and Veremonda by Francesco Cavalli at Schwetzingen Festival and La Favorite by Gaetano Donizetti with Elīna Garanča at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. In the 2016/17 season, Elisabetta von Gioachino Rossini followed at the Theater an der Wien. In 2020 she staged Beethoven's Fidelio in the original version from 1805 and a new libretto by Moritz Rinke at the Vienna State Opera .

For the Residenztheater Munich she brought Rottweiler by Thomas Jonigk , Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen , Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller , What you want by William Shakespeare and finally Return to the Desert by Bernard-Marie Koltès on stage. In many cases, Juliane Köhler embodied one of the main roles.

Niermeyer lives in Munich, is divorced and has a son.

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  1. ↑ Mozarteum University Salzburg, The Thomas Bernhard Institute, Martin Trippensee: Mozarteum University Salzburg - The Thomas Bernhard Institute - The Head of Department. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
  2. ^ Sven Siedenberg: Out of the full Munich. Resi director Amelie Niermeyer goes to Frankfurt , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 14, 1995, p. 15.
  3. ↑ Cornelia Glees: Amelie Niermeyer receives award for women's research. Pieces against the blinders of men. Awarded 26-year-old director , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 1, 1992.
  4. ↑ Elke Schmitter: Tolles Triebleben ; in: Der Spiegel , January 13, 2003
  5. ↑ Christiane Hoffmanns: That is why Amélie Niermeyer had to go , in: Die Welt , March 26, 2009
  6. ↑ Ulrike Gondorf: Krampfhaftes Happy End , in: Deutschlandfunk , November 15, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Niermeyer, Amélie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn