Biography
Milo Rau was born in Bern in 1977 and studied sociology, German and Romance studies in Paris, Zurich and Berlin, among others under Pierre Bourdieu and Tzvetan Todorov. From 2000 he wrote for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and in 2007 he founded his production company, the International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM), which creates theatre pieces, films, books and exhibitions on historical and political conflicts. He became known for works such as “The Last Days of the Ceausescus” (2009/10) and “Hate Radio” (2011/12); these were followed by works including “Die Moskauer Prozesse” (2013), “Das Kongo Tribunal” (2015), “Five Easy Pieces” (2016), “Orest in Mossul” (2019), “Familie” (2020) and “Antigone in the Amazon” (2023). At the Schaubühne in Berlin he staged “Mitleid. Die Geschichte des Maschinengewehrs” (2016), “Lenin” (2017), “Everywoman” (2020) and “Die Seherin” (2025). From 2018 he ran NTGent in Belgium, where he set out his programme of global realism in the “Ghent Manifesto”; since July 2023 he has been artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen. His awards include the Swiss Theatre Award (2014), the Peter Weiss Prize (2017) and the Europe Prize Theatrical Realities (2018).
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