Ruben Müller

Ruben Müller grew up in Kaiserslautern. Before and alongside his studies in philosophy and cultural studies in Berlin, he worked as an assistant and media operator at theaters and in the independent scene. This took him to the Theaterhaus Jena, the Volksbühne Berlin, the Ballhaus Ost, the Kosmos Theater Vienna and the Schauspiel Köln, among others. Since 2019, he has had an ongoing collaboration with director Marie Schleef, whose joint project “Name Her. Eine Suche nach den Frauen+” was invited to the 2021 Berlin Theatertreffen.

Ruben Müller has been studying directing at the Otto Falckenberg School since 2022 and has been supported by a scholarship from the Richard Stury Foundation since 2023. In his works, he deals with the recognition of social realities in the past and present as well as with possible spaces of emancipation in digital and technical counter-realities. His performance “S.A.D. - Secretly A Dinosaur”, which he developed together with Sascha Malina Hoffmann during his studies, was invited to the Plug&Play Festival at Staatstheater Mainz and to the Open Port Prize of the PAD Festival in Wiesbaden in 2024.

In the 2023/24 season, Ruben Müller worked on the productions “Frau Schmidt und das Kind aus Charkiw” and “Die Möglichkeit des Bösen” at the Münchner Kammerspiele. In the current season, he is part of the Habibi Kiosk team.