Alexander Meier-Dörzenbach

Alexander Meier-Dörzenbach was born in Hamburg in 1971 and read American studies, German, the theory of education and art history. His doctoral dissertation at Hamburg University was an interdisciplinary study of Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson and modern art.

He has worked regularly with Stefan Herheim since the latter's graduate production of Die Zauberflöte, notably on I puritani and Don Giovanni in Essen, Madama Butterfly in Vienna, La forza del destino and Lohengrin in Berlin, Das Rheingold in Riga and Bergen and after Giulio Cesare most recently Tannhäuser in Oslo. As an associate professor, he currently teaches American studies at the University of Hamburg, with particular emphasis on American literature, painting and music, and also lectures on dramaturgy at the city's Academy of Applied Sciences in collaboration with Reinhard von der Thannen. He has also worked as dramaturge on Karoline Gruber's production of Ariadne auf Naxos in Leipzig and most recently Elegie für junge Liebende in Essen.

Future projects with Herheim include Lulu in Copenhagen, Salome in Salzburg und Eugen Onegin in Amsterdam.

Engagements in Bayreuth