Ruben Müller
Ruben Müller grew up in Kaiserslautern. He has been studying directing at the Otto Falckenberg School since 2022 and received a scholarship from the Richard Stury Foundation between 2023 and 2025. In his work, he deals with true events as well as social, digital and melancholic realities and counter-realities.
Before and alongside his first degree in philosophy and cultural studies at the HU Berlin, he worked as an assistant and in various positions at theatres and in the independent scene. This led him to the Theaterhaus Jena, the Volksbühne Berlin, the Ballhaus Ost, the Kosmos Theater Vienna and the Schauspiel Köln, among others. In the 2023/24 season, he also guest starred as an assistant at the Münchner Kammerspiele, where he then became a permanent employee at the Habibi Kiosk in the 2024/25 season.
Since 2019, he has been working continuously with director Marie Schleef, whom he initially supported as an assistant and later as a media operator in her work. Their joint project ‘Name Her. Eine Suche nach den Frauen+’ (Name Her. A Search for Women+) was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2021.
His performance ‘S.A.D. – Secretly A Dinosaur’, developed together with Sascha Malina Hoffmann, was invited to the Plug & Play Festival at the Mainz State Theatre and the Open Port Prize of the PAD Festival in Wiesbaden in 2024, and was shown as a guest performance at the Berlin Ringtheater in 2025. Together with Sascha Malina Hoffmann, he was also awarded a residency at the Staatstheater Mainz in January 2025, where they were able to continue their artistic research.
In February 2026, Ruben Müller’s final production, ‘Mitleidsprotokoll – every tear recorded,’ will premiere at the Werkraum der Münchner Kammerspiele.
