Kevin Rittberger, born in 1977 in Stuttgart, works as a writer and director among others at the Schauspiel Hannover, at the Residenztheater München, at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, at the Schauspielhaus Wien and at Schauspiel Frankfurt – often with his own texts and research projects. In 2011 and 2020 he was nominated for the Mülheim Dramatikerpreis for his plays Kassandra oder die Welt als Ende der Vorstellung und IKI.radikalmensch.