Alexander Eisenach
Alexander Eisenach, born in Berlin in 1984, works as a director and playwright. He studied theatre studies and German literature in Leipzig and Paris, and began his career as a directing assistant at the Centraltheater Leipzig. After a residency in the directing studio at Schauspiel Frankfurt in 2013/14, his first independent works were created there, including the world premiere of his play Das Leben des Joyless Pleasure in 2014.
Since then, Eisenach has worked as a freelance director at numerous German-language theatres, including Deutsches Theater Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Schauspiel Stuttgart, and Schauspiel Hannover, where he served as resident director from 2016 to 2019. Since the 2023/24 season he has been resident director at Residenztheater München, where his recent productions include The Loyal Subject (after Heinrich Mann), Götz von Berlichingen, and the world premiere of Sankt Falstaff by Ewald Palmetshofer. He also oversees the interdisciplinary series Im Dickicht der Stadt and Performing Science, in collaboration with LMU München.
Eisenach's work connects political, historical, and contemporary perspectives, and is characterised by the interweaving of different narrative and temporal layers. For the production of his play Das kalte Hauch des Geldes he received the Kurt-Hübner-Regiepreis in 2016. His rewriting Anthropos, Tyrann (Oedipus) at the Volksbühne Berlin was nominated in 2021 for the Nestroy Prize in the category Best Production in the German-speaking World. His texts are published by Rowohlt Theaterverlag.
Since then, Eisenach has worked as a freelance director at numerous German-language theatres, including Deutsches Theater Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Schauspiel Stuttgart, and Schauspiel Hannover, where he served as resident director from 2016 to 2019. Since the 2023/24 season he has been resident director at Residenztheater München, where his recent productions include The Loyal Subject (after Heinrich Mann), Götz von Berlichingen, and the world premiere of Sankt Falstaff by Ewald Palmetshofer. He also oversees the interdisciplinary series Im Dickicht der Stadt and Performing Science, in collaboration with LMU München.
Eisenach's work connects political, historical, and contemporary perspectives, and is characterised by the interweaving of different narrative and temporal layers. For the production of his play Das kalte Hauch des Geldes he received the Kurt-Hübner-Regiepreis in 2016. His rewriting Anthropos, Tyrann (Oedipus) at the Volksbühne Berlin was nominated in 2021 for the Nestroy Prize in the category Best Production in the German-speaking World. His texts are published by Rowohlt Theaterverlag.
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