Biography
Susanna Boehm, born 1965 in Munich, made her first stage experience during a one-year internship at the Raleigh Theatre in North Carolina, USA, from 1985 to 1986. Subsequently, Boehm started to study production design at Accademia delle Belle Arti in Rome and successfully graduated four years later.
As a production designer and costume designer, she participated in countless opera and theatre productions in Germany, Austria, the USA, and Italy during the following years. The range of the productions Boehm was involved in included everything from productions of classic plays like "Fräulein Julie" ("Miss Julie", Göttingen, 1999) or "Parsifal" (Genoa, 2004) to contemporary plays like "Der Totmacher" (Leipzig, 1999). From 1989 to 2003, Boehm also worked as a project manager for the Bregenz Opera Festival where she was in charge of the "Summer Opera" productions.
In 2004, Susanne Boehm made her debut as a director with the TV documentary film "Alfons Mucha – Visionär im Jugendstil" ("Alphonse Mucha – Art Nouveau Visionary") about the influential Czech poster artist, graphic artist, illustrator, and painter. Four years later, she started to work on her first feature film for the movie screen: In "Porgy & Me", Boehm observes the everyday stage and tour activities of the African-American singers of the "New York Harlem Theatre" who are performing George Gershwin"s opera "Porgy & Bess" all over the world for years.