Aileen Schneider
Director
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Aileen Schneider joined Oper Frankfurt as a director's assistant and to rehearse revivals in 2020/21, a position she held at the Staatstheater in Augsburg from 2017 - 2020, where she directed Philip Glass‘ In der Strafkolonie / In the Penal Colony, based on Kafka, and Martin Zels' children's opera, Die große Wörterfabrik /The Big Word Factory. She also directed works at the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern and, in 2023, the Landestheater in Detmold. She's directing her first opera for Oper Frankfurt, this new production of Aribert Reimann's Melusine in the Bockenheimer depot, before embarking on a free-lance career from 2025/26, directing a new production of Carmen at the Staatstheater in Augsburg and writing the libretto for the world premiere ofViel zu Feel at the Landestheater in Detmold. She graduated from the HfMT in Hamburg in 2016 with a production of Viktor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis. Whilst still a student she directed Philip Glass' The Sound of Voice at the Hamburg State Opera's Opera Stabile and participated, as a composer and musician, in Schorsch Kamerun's Die Disparate Stadt at the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. A Masefield scholarship from the Toepfer Foundation enabled her to develop Chopin im Spiegel / Chopin in the Mirror, a biographical concert performance. Aileen Schneider started having piano, saxophone and singing lessons when she was a child. The YAMAHA Music Foundation awarded her a three year composition scholarship, she was the youngest candidate, in 2001 and she won a prize at Jeunesse musicales' National Composition Competition in 2011. She is also a Spoken Word performer, was crowned a Hessen Master at the 2022 Poetry Slam and a dramatist. Her work ICH/ICH/ICH (composed by Linus Mahler) was performed at the Landestheater in Detmold for the first time in 2023.