Milo Rau, born in 1977, studied sociology, German and Romance languages and literature in Paris, Berlin and Zurich under Pierre Bourdieu and Tzvetan Todorov, among others. Since 2002, he has put out over 50 plays, films, books and actions. His productions have appeared at all of the major international festivals, including the Berlin Theatertreffen, the Festival d'Avignon, the Venice Biennale Teatro, the Wiener Festwochen and the Brussels Kunstenfestival, and have toured more than 30 countries worldwide. Rau has received many honours, most recently the Peter-Weiss-Prize 2017, the 3sat-Prize 2017, the 2017 Saarbrucken Poetry Lectureship for Drama and, in 2016, the prestigious World Theatre Day ITI Prize, as youngest artist ever after Frank Castorf and Pina Bausch. Rau is also tv critic and a prolific writer, his political essay What is to be done? Critic of the postmodern reason became a bestseller in the German speaking world. Beginning in the season 2018/19 he ist he artistic director of the NTGent. In the season 2018/19 he will work with actors of the ensemble of Schauspielhaus Bochum for the first time for the production Oresteia.

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