Nadja Maleh is the daughter of a Syrian physician and East Tyrolean psychotherapist Margaretha Maleh, President of Doctors Without Borders Austria. 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 ...