Alek Niemiro

Director, video artist – Hamburg, Germany
Participant International Forum 2024

Alek Niemiro assisted at the Warsaw Och-Teatr after completing his school education in 2012. He studied philosophy and theatre studies at Freie Universität Berlin until 2015. During this time, he assisted at Deutsches Theater Berlin. His initial works at the Sophiensæle in Berlin were created during his time. From 2015 to 2019, he was a permanent assistant director at Thalia Theater, collaborating with directors such as Ewelina Marciniak, Bastian Kraft, Luk Perceval, Johan Simons, Jette Steckel, and Sebastian Nübling. Some of the shows that he created at Thalia Theater include: “Patrick Bateman – An American Psycho”, “Peter Weiss/Marat Sade” and “The End of Eddy” (invited to the festival Theater der Welt). 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 Theater Hamburg in the summer of 2020. In the summer of 2023, he won the Art Prize of the Altonale Hamburg.