Nada Zimmermann
Nada Zimmermann (*1996) is a young director from Austria with a bachelor's degree in musicology from the University of Vienna and has been studying music theater directing at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin since autumn 2021.
Her approach to directing is based on participatory and collective working methods that involve all participants in the production process and paints her productions in narrative-fantastic and polystylistic colors and formats.
As a German scholarship holder, she has already gained experience as a performer, dramaturge, author and production manager, the latter for “Neue Szenen VII” at the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, in addition to her own directing activities.
As part of her training, Nada Zimmermann has already staged excerpts from Frank Wedekind's “Lulu” (2022), G. F. Handel's “Giulio Cesare in Egitto” (2022) and W. A. Mozart's “Magic Flute” (2023). In September 2024, she staged her first self-written piece “End-gültig”, which was characterized by a multimedia and piece-developing approach.
In collaboration with the Schillerchor Berlin, a semi-staged performance of Michael Tippett's oratorio “A Child Of Our Time” was created on November 9, 2024, which was staged at the Delphi Theater Berlin on the day of the commemoration of the Progromnacht 1938.
Between 2018 and 2022, she gained experience as an assistant director during the Austrian summer festival OperKlosterneuburg and at the Herbsttage Blindenmarkt in Lower Austria. She also interned in the dramaturgy department of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin (2020), at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin as part of the play development “Schlachten” by Oliver Frljić (2023) and at the Theater Thikwa Berlin in collaboration with the music theater collective glanz und krawall for the production “Die Tüten aus der Verwaltung” (2024).
