Alejandro Vallejo Barguil

Alejandro Vallejo is a director, performer, dramatist and poet. After growing up in Colombia, his path led him via a number of places in Latin America to Berlin in 2014. He laid the foundations of his art by studying Transdisciplinary Theatre Studies in Leipzig and a Masters in Staging Arts and Media at the University of Hildesheim. While still a student he realised several independent theatre projects including the play Ich werde jetzt tanzen und möchte es möglichst real wirken lassen. In 2022 he was invited to Theater Münster’s Dramenlabor with Jeder Schritt ist ein neuer Ort. From 2022 to 2025 he worked as an assistant director at Theater Magdeburg, where he also directed Stefan Zweig’s Schachnovelle. In this work he juxtaposed literary fiction with a (post-)migrant reality and produced a bold and incisive, socially critical re-reading of the classic text. Alongside his theatre work, Vallejo is also active in literature and films: his book of poems Que la tinta me devuelva en carne un poco was published in Bogotá in 2021 and a second volume is in preparation. He is currently working on the short film Land der Zwiebel (working title) that illuminates the lurch to the right and fantasies of remigration from a migrant perspective. Vallejo is also a founder member of the youthful association Gemeinschaft Internationaler Darstellender Künste Koldenbüttel e.V.