Milan-born director, cultural mediator and cultural manager Alexander Medem is a German Peruvian of Russian origin. He studied musicology and theatre studies at the University of Vienna and theatre and film directing at the Drama Centre London with the UK’s first female director (Di Trevis) and is a trained pianist. In 2016, he completed a master’s program in Cultural Management at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. His teachers there included Thomas Angyan, Rudolf Berger and Matthias Naske
From 2008 to 2010, Alexander Medem was assistant director at the Burgtheater Vienna and subsequently gained extensive experience as a freelance assistant with Plácido Domingo, Christof Loy, Thaddeus Strassberger, Peter Konwitschny, Jürgen Flimm and Graham Vick at the Theater an der Wien, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Hamburg State Opera, the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp and the Bregenz Festival, among others.
As a freelance director, he is particularly interested in musical theatre and has a lot of experience with children’s and youth theatre and also performs as a narrator and actor.
So far he has been able to convince with the following works:
2023 Star Witch Elsemond (music theatre for children by S. Reyer), Theatermuseum Wien
2023 Star Witch Elsemond (music theatre for children by S. Reyer), Gasteig HP8 München
2022 Revival of “Strange Meeting” (opera by Norbert Zehm), Vierundeinzig/Innsbruck
2022 „El Duende“ in Maria de Buenos Aires (Astor Piazzolla), Tiroler Landestheater
2021 The Box of Wonders, Brucknerhaus Linz
2021 co-directing „Turandot“(G. Puccini), Oper im Steinbruch St. Margarethen
2021 „El Duende“ in Maria de Buenos Aires (Astor Piazzolla), Tiroler Landestheater
2019 The Box of Wonders (music theatre for children by S. Reyer), Wiener Musikverein
2019 G.Verdi: „La traviata” – Slovak National Theatre Košice
2018 Finalist of the directing competition of the Nederlandse Reisopera for a production of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin”
2018 WP “Strange Meeting” by Norbert Zehm, opera for the commemoration year 2018 (Tyrolean Ensemble for New Music)
2018 Revival of Schwups! in Innsbruck (November)
2017 Schwups! – A music story about street music, courage and friendship, Jeunesses Musicales Austria
2017 The Danube Female (Bernd Watzka; Wiendrama)
2015 A Christmas Carol (Musical by N. Bertassi nach Ch.Dickens, wp), Teatro Mödling
2015 Undine (Albert Lortzing/Tristan Schulze), Vienna State Opera/Children´s Opera
2014 Stalin´s Saint (Katharina Tiwald, world premiere), Theater Drachengasse, Vienna
2014 O Saci – a goblin in the jungle (Miguel Kertsman), Bregenz Festival
2013 Le nozze di Figaro (W.A. Mozart), Perchtoldsdorf, Bruck/Leitha
2012/13 O Saci – a goblin in the jungle (Miguel Kertsman), Jungle Vienna
2012 Kinderpasticcio (A. Medem, Georg Blume, world premiere), Wiener Konzerthaus (as part of „Music to attack“, commissioned work for Jeunesse Wien)
2012 Woyzeck 2.0 (M. Lehmann Horn, UA), New Opera Vienna
2011 O Saci (Miguel Kertsman), Cultural Park District, Chicago
2011 Tadschikistan (A. Medem, Yael Salomonowitz, UA), Theater Drachengasse, Vienna, audience award
2009 L’Enfant et les Sortilèges & O Saci (M. Ravel/M. Kertsman, UA) St. Paul`s Church, London
2008 The Guns of Carrar (B. Brecht), Cochrane Theatre, London
2007 Gianni Schicchi (G. Puccini), Magdalen Hall, Oxford
09/2024
www.alexandermedem.com
