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Nadja Maleh (born 9 June 1972 in Vienna) is an Austrian actress, singer, cabaret artist and director.
Nadja Maleh is the daughter of a Syrian physician and East Tyrolean psychotherapist Margaretha Maleh, President of Doctors Without Borders Austria. [1] After attending a secondary academic school with modern languages in Vienna from 1982 to 1990, she studied drama with Michael Mohapp at the Graumann Acting Musical Entertainment Studio (GAMES) theatre school at the Graumann Theatre in Vienna until 1994. In the same year she completed a training course at the "International Studio for Movement Theatre at the Odeon". She has been taking voice lessons since 1998.
Maleh's first solo show – Flugangsthasen – premièred at "Kabarett Niedermair" in Vienna on 8 March 2007, while her second stage show was entitled Radio Aktiv (première: 4 February 2010, "Kabarett Niedermair"). Her third solo show – Jackpot – had its première at Vienna's "Stadtsaal" on 24 January 2013. Maleh has been performing Placebo, her fourth solo show which premièred at the "Kulisse" in Vienna, since 10 February 2015. Her début album SONGS VOL 1 featuring numbers from her cabaret shows was released at the same time. [2] Parallel to her activities as a member of the ensemble of the Grünwald Friday comedy on Bavarian Broadcasting, the cabaret artist has also appeared in several TV productions on the stations Puls 4 and Servus TV since the beginning of 2016. On 27 September 2016 she started her revised edition of BEST-OF Kabarett together with Bernd Alfons (guitar).
Her main theme, "Ich bin viele – und die wollen alle raus" ("I am many personalities, all yearning to escape") forms the basis of Maleh's solo cabaret shows. She has created a total of 25 fictitious characters for her cabaret shows to date. [3] [4] The most important are:
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