Stefan Kaegi

Stefan Kaegi creates documentary plays, radio plays and urban space productions in a wide variety of constellations, which often break down constructs of economic interdependence to a human component.

For example, he has toured the world with two Bulgarian truck drivers and a converted truck, staged 10,000 insects in Heuschrecken and four Cuban grandchildren of the so-called “revolutionary generation” in Granma. At the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, he staged Nachlass with people who didn’t have long to live, and in Uncanny Valley, the life-size copy of the writer Thomas Melle as a humanoid. His audio tour Remote X was repeatedly adapted to specific locations in cities such as Los Angeles, Santiago de Chile and Taipei. In November 2023, his production Société Anonyme premiered at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. Together with Caroline Barneaud, he curates the theater and art project Shared Landscapes in peri-urban landscapes, most recently at the Tangente Festival in St. Pölten.

Stefan Kaegi, Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel have formed an author-director team under the Rimini Protokoll label since 2010. Highly acclaimed productions by Rimini Protokoll include the multiplayer video play Situation Rooms about the global arms trade, the transportable parlor game Hausbesuch Europa, the simulation of a world climate conference, which was shown at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Weltzustand Davos at the Schauspielhaus Zürich and the experimental arrangement Konferenz der Abwesenden. In cities such as Montreal, São Paulo and Hong Kong, Rimini Protokoll staged 100% City and assembled 100 representative representatives of the city on stage. In the city tour Utopolis, performed in Manchester and Lausanne, Rimini Protokoll guided the audience through the city with 48 portable loudspeakers and with the series Staat 1-4 they developed a tetralogy on the phenomena of post-democracy.

Immersive and interactive works such as win > < win or Urban Nature were created for museums. Several Rimini Protokoll productions, including Situation Rooms, were invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen. Rimini Protokoll has also been awarded the Mülheim Drama Prize, the German Theater Prize Der Faust, the Swiss Grand Prix Theater, the European Theater Prize, the German Radio Play Prize, the Radio Play Prize of the War Blind and in 2011 – for their complete works – the Silver Lion at the Venice Theater Biennale.