Alek Niemiro assisted at the Warsaw "Och-teatr" after completing his high school in 2012. He studied Philosophy and Theater Studies at the Free University of Berlin until 2015. During this time, he assisted at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. His initial works at the "Sophiensaelen" emerged during his time in Berlin. From 2015 to 2019, he was a permanent assistant director at the Thalia Theater, collaborating with directors such as Ewelina Marciniak, Bastian Kraft, Luk Perceval, Johan Simons, Jette Steckel, and Sebastian Nübling. Some of the evenings he created at the Thalia Theater include: Patrick Bateman - An American Psycho, Peter Weiss/Marat Sade and The End of Eddy (invited to Theater der Welt-Festival). He won the Start Off competition for young directors at the Lichthof Theater Hamburg in June 2018. In May 2019, his next work at the Thalia Theater, In der Schwebe was produced. He then studied directing at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In his works, he often explores post-migrant interpretations of classical plays and modern polish authors. Particularly, the Polish-German history of the 20th century and the associated anti-Slavism are specific areas of interest. His first audiovisual installation was created at Fleetstreet Hamburg in the summer of 2020. In the summer of 2023, he won the Art Prize of the Altonale Hamburg.
Director, Video Alek Niemiro Stage, Costumes, Video | Laura Trilsam
Elisabeth | Imke Siebert Maria Stuart | Victoria Kraft Leicester | Ben Engelgeer
Wars end, camps recede, and once again, there are only losers. A power vacuum emerges. Positions are being renegotiated. Those who consider themselves winners now shape history. They influence the narrative. The question arises of who was merely a follower, who bears responsibility, and most importantly, whom one needs. A division emerges between the 'good bad' and the 'bad bad.'
Director | Alek Niemiro Stage | Lou Hinderhofer Costumes | Laura Trilsam Music | Matija Chlupacek Dramaturgy | Alexandra Althoff
Hamlet | Victoria Kraft Horatio | Marie Eick-Kerssenbrock Ophelia | Adrian Weinek
Gertrude | Annalisa Hohl Laertes | Payam Yazdani Claudius | Lenz Farkas
Polonius | Alexander Smirzitz Rosenstern | Ben Engelgeer
Hamlet's world is turned upside down. Nothing is as it once was. The father is dead, the mother newly remarried, the friends unreliable comforters. In this vacuum, young Hamlet seeks stability in a world spinning ever faster. In the struggle against both his own expectations and those of others, Hamlet becomes disillusioned by a system shaped by realpolitik rather than moral values. Where is the big red button that says STOP, to pause everything for a moment?
Two poor Polish-speaking Romanians
Director, Video | Alek Niemiro Stage, Costumes, Video | Selina Schweiger Music | Tom Gatza Dschina | Maren Solty Frau | Esther Berkel Parcha | Mila Suttree Priester | Alexander Smirzitz
Stoned, ragged, and completely unpredictable, two poor, Polish-speaking Romanians stagger through the Polish countryside. In a night filled with drugs, alcohol, and dreams, oscillating between vivid delirium and painful moments of reality, Parcha and Dschina seek a way to Warsaw. Along the way, they encounter lost figures from the societal reality of contemporary Poland. A post-socialist road movie trip that ends with a cold turkey withdrawal
Swimming in the Dark
Director | Alek Niemiro Stage, Costumes | Selina Schweiger Music| Tom Gatza Janusz | Martin Rudi Ludwik | Mila Suttree Maksio | Adrian Weinek Hania | Lena Plochberger
Poland, summer 1980: A fateful moment not only for the entire world but also for the two students, Ludwik and Janusz, who fall in love during this time but are forced to keep their relationship a secret. In a short span, their happiness is torn apart by intolerance, corruption, and the dictatorial rule of the party. Janusz decides to stay in Poland and work to change the country, while Ludwik sees their future abroad. How do they decide?
Macbeth
Director, Stage | Alek Niemiro Costumes | Hanna Schamderer Music | Tom Gatza Macbeth | Martin Petzenhammer Lady Macbeth | Dascha Ivanowa
Macbeth, transformed into an intense and intimate play on an equal footing. The shared bedroom becomes a dark place that turns into hell. An impressive portrayal of the impossibility of falling asleep while fears, desires, and lust drive the action. Two monstrous characters collide, leaving no room for doubts or questions. Every trace of uncertainty is brutally punished, while any questioning is used as a means to discredit the other. Ultimately, the question arises: What good is power if it only serves to consume one from within?
Opehlia Exit Water
Director, Concept | Alek Niemiro Concept | Edith Saldanha Staging | Marlene Pierot Music | Matthias Kremsreiter Dramaturgy | Martín Valdés-Stauber Ophelia | Edith Saldanha Ophelia | Anastasiia Pustovit Opehlia | Maryna Klimova
Ophelia serves as the female counterpart to Hamlet, depicted by Shakespeare as a loving and carefree woman who succumbs to madness and eventually drowns in a stream. Since then, this popular character has ignited male fantasies and has been the target of gender-specific projections. Building upon this motif, an attempt is made to allow silenced Ophelias to discover their contradictions and voices, liberating them from the associative chain of woman, madness, water, and death. Through poetic and prosaic textual fragments, strategies are explored to enable objectified Ophelias to become the subjects of their own narratives.
The End of Eddy
Director | Alek Niemiro Stage | Marion Schindler Costumes | Anna Degenhard Dramatugy | Margit Kreß Eddy | Steffen Siegmung Live Music | Tom Gatza
Eddy Bellegueule is growing up in a small French village, where everyone knows each other. From very early on it’s clear that he’s not like the other boys. He is teased and subjected to homophobic abuse before he really starts to understand why he’s being treated like a leper. His parents are self absorbed with bad jobs and very little money… Eddy tries to somehow come to terms with it all, to get on with his family and his classmates and deal with all his own yearnings and projections onto others. And to work out why his version of ‘normal’ elicits violence and hypocrisy from others. One day Eddy gets sick and tired of it, and runs away from home.
CV
2023 | Hamlet Diploma
Shakespeare | Thomas Bernhard Institut
2023 | ALTBESTAND Videoinstallation
Winner Altonale Altes Amt Hamburg,
2023 | Romeo und Julia-Ромео і Джульєтта
Shakespeare | Thomas Bernhard Institut
2023 | Maria Stuart
Schiller | Thomas Bernhard Institut
2022 | Swimming in the Dark World Premiere
Jedrowski | Thomas Berndhard Institut
2022 | Zwei arme, polnische sprechende Rumänen
Maslowska | Thomas Bernhard Institut
2021 | Ophelia Exit Water
Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich/Left Bank Theatre Kyiv
2021 | Im Geheimnis (Oper) World Premiere
Marchand/Eßel | Thomas Bernhard Institut
2021 | Moja Solidarnosc World Premiere
Tomasz Niemiro | Thomas Bernhard Institut
2021 | Macbeth
Shakespeare | Thomas Bernhard Institut
2020 | Raport W (Installation)
Artist Residence Fleetstreet-Theater Hamburg
2019 | In der Schwebe
Maja Arad Yasur | Thalia Theater, Hamburg
2018 | Murphys Gesetz WinnerStart Off
Lichthof- Theater, Hamburg
2017 | Patrick Bateman-An American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis | Thalia Theater, Hamburg
2017 | Das Ende von Eddy
Édouard Louis | Thalia Theater/Theater der Welt, Hamburg
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