Miriam Michel

Miriam Michel (* 1979 in Dudweiler / Saar) is a German director , dramaturge , documentary filmmaker and performance artist .

Life

As a teenager, Michel was already making performance videos, creating collages and works of art, and organizing her first own art exhibition. She studied theater studies, American studies and sociology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and completed her studies with a Magister Artium , before going to the Schlosstheater Moers as assistant director with Ulrich Greb from 2003 to 2005 . There she staged her debut The Curve by Tankred Dorst .

Since 2005 Miriam Michel has been working as a freelance director in Neuss, Luxembourg, Greifswald, Cologne, Moers, Hagen and Halle (Saale), among others.

In 2006 she founded the performance company dorisdean . Since 2011, Miriam Michel has been specializing in the artistic examination and research of the life of physically disabled people and restructured the company dorisdean into a “mix-abled ensemble”. The group won the Petra Meurer Prize in Dortmund in 2014. In 2016 dorisdean won the jury award of the Favoriten Festival Dortmund with Hypergamy - Wedding with Obstacles .

Miriam Michel also works in the field of children's and youth theater and in project work with young people and children, e. B. am Lutzhagen , Orchesterhagen , KJT Dortmund and the Grillo-Theater Essen . She also worked for the Ruhrtriennale , the Salzburg Festival and the TV production companies Orange Film and Network Movie .

Director (selection)

• 2004: Entertain us… a musical homage to Kurt Cobain . Castle theater Moers
• 2005: The curve of Tankred Dorst . Castle theater Moers
• 2006: Koeppen im Nacken , project about Wolfgang Koeppen's youth . Koeppenhaus Greifswald ; Theater Vorpommern; 100 degrees
• 2007: the ring. The Nibelungen. after Katja Fillmann. Theater am Schlachthof Neuss
• 2007: Public abuse after Peter Handke. Theater am Schlachthof Neuss
• 2007: Je ne me souvien riens by Andri Beyeler. German premiere, Theater am Schlachthof Neuss
• 2008: more me! , freely based on motifs from Matt Ruff's Me and the Others . A performative city trip through Cologne and Hagen by Goltz + Silber
• 2010: Home 20.10 of Christina Kühnreich. First performance at the Stummer Schrei cultural festival, Tyrol
• 2011: Disabilities - The Research (Performance). Summer Blood Festival Cologne
• 2011: believe me. Short film, 7 minutes
• 2012: Just one day from Martin Baltscheit - Lutzhagen
• 2013: Job by Joseph Roth in the version by Koen Tachelet . lutzhagen
• 2013: I like to play by dorisdean (performance). Made in Düsseldorf Festival
• 2014: Pigeons in the grass by Wolfgang Koeppen, adapted for the stage by Miriam Michel. First performance, lutzhagen
• 2014: Dead penguins don't taste good by Martin Baltscheit. UA lutzhagen
• 2014: Water in the city of Dorisdean (performance). Zündstoff Festival lutzhagen
• 2015: Prince shooting star by Lisa Sommerfeldt . UA lutzhagen
• 2015: attitude, please! by Dorisdean (performance). “Colors of Dance” festival at the Hagen Theater
• 2015: Crow and Bear by Martin Baltscheit. UA lutzhagen
• 2015: Men staring at trees . documentary
• 2016: Frerk, you dwarf! by Martin Baltscheit . lutzhagen .
• 2017: World Daughters. Research performance at the Landungsbrücken Frankfurt / Main.
• 2018: We are sorry, Margarete. Game show performance by Dorisdean. Zeche1 Bochum.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dorisdean. Accessed January 31, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Petra Meurer Prize. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on February 22, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
3. ↑ Dorisdean: Hypergamy - marriage with obstacles. In: Theater Festival FAVORITEN 2016. Retrieved on August 27, 2019 (announcement of the performance). 
4. ↑ YOU ARE ALL OUR FAVORITES, YOU ARE ALL WINNERS! In: Theaterfestival FAVORITEN 2016. Retrieved on August 27, 2019 (contains, among other things, the winners of the prizes). 
5. ↑ Theater Festival FAVORITEN 2016. Accessed on August 27, 2019 (overview of the 2016 competition). 
6. ^ Theater Dortmund. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .