Amélie Niermeyer

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Born in Bonn on 14 October 1965. High school diploma in St Louis/USA, 1984, university entrance examination in Bonn. Then jobshadowing at Schauspiel Bonn. Her teachers were Peter Eschberg and Rudolf Noelte. After travelling through south-east Asia and Australia, courses at Drama School in Sydney and, from 1986 to 1989, she studied German in Bonn and Munich. Assistant director in Bonn and at Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel Munich, where she became an in-house director in 1990.

1992 Promotional Prize for “Women’s Research and Women’s Culture” of the City of Munich. In the same year she moved to the Dortmunder Theater as senior play director. 1993 return to Munich’s Residenztheater. From 1995 permanent director at Schauspiel Frankfurt, but also produces in Munich, Weimar, Bregenz and at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In 2002 she became manager at Freiburg Theatre. At the start of the 2006/2007 season she will move to be manager of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus.