Christopher Rüping

Christopher Rüping, born 1985 in Hanover, studied directing at the Hamburg Theatre Academy and the Zurich University of the Arts. His first directing works were in Hanover, Hamburg and Frankfurt. His productions are both tender and exuberant evenings in which the actors can freely encounter themselves and the audience and have made him one of the most influential directors in German-language theatre. From 2016 to 2019, he was in-house director at the Münchner Kammerspiele, since then he has held the same position at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. The critics of Theater heute magazine voted him best newcomer in 2014 and 2015 as well as best director in 2019. To date, he has received five invitations to the Berliner Theatertreffen: In 2015 with his production Das Fest based on the film by Thomas Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov (Schauspiel Stuttgart), in 2018 with Bertolt Brecht's Trommeln in der Nacht, in 2019 with the ten-hour antiquities project Dionysos Stadt (both Münchner Kammerspiele), in 2021 with Einfach das Ende der Welt based on Jean-Luc Lagarce (Schauspielhaus Zürich) and in 2022 with Das neue Leben based on Dante (Schauspielhaus Bochum). Rüping’s Der Ring des Nibelungen was part of the Wiener Festwochen 2022.