Milo Rau

Milo Rau (1977, Bern) is a director, author and lecturer and was director of the NTGent (Belgium). Rau studied sociology, German and Romance languages and literature in Paris, Berlin and Zurich. Critics have described him as the "most influential" (Die Zeit), "most honoured" (Le Soir) and "most scandalous" (New York Times) artist of our time. Since 2002, he has published over 50 plays, films, books and actions. His theatre productions have been shown at all major international festivals and have toured over 30 countries worldwide. Rau has received numerous awards, including the 3sat Prize 2017, the Saarbrücken Poetry Lectureship for Drama 2017 and the prestigious ITI Prize of the World Theatre Day in 2016. In 2020, he received the prestigious Münster Poetry Lectureship for his artistic oeuvre. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund in Sweden, and in 2020 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Ghent. Milo Rau has been artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen since 1 July 2023.