Christopher Rüping, born in 1985 in Hanover, studied directing at the Theatre Academy Hamburg and the Zurich University of the Arts. His first productions were staged in Hanover, Hamburg and Frankfurt. His productions are both delicate and exuberant evenings, in which performers encounter one another and the audience freely, making him one of the most influential directors in German-language theatre today. From 2016 to 2019 he was resident director at the Münchner Kammerspiele, and from 2019 to 2024 resident director at Schauspielhaus Zürich. To date, he has been invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen five times: in 2015 with Das Fest (after the film by Thomas Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov, Schauspiel Stuttgart), in 2018 with Trommeln in der Nacht (Münchner Kammerspiele), in 2019 with the ten-hour ancient project Dionysos Stadt (Münchner Kammerspiele), in 2021 with Einfach das Ende der Welt (Schauspielhaus Zürich), and in 2022 with Das neue Leben (Schauspielhaus Bochum). The critics of Theater heute voted him Emerging Director of the Year in 2014 and 2015, and Director of the Year in 2019 and 2021. In 2021, his production of Einfach das Ende der Welt was voted Production of the Year by the magazine’s critics. In March 2025, he received the Theaterpreis Berlin.

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