15 Facts About Sibylle Berg

Sibylle Berg was born on 2 June 1962 and is a German-Swiss contemporary author and playwright.

On 1 March 2023 Berg was invited as special guest to open the high-profile Elevate Festival in Graz, Austria.

Sibylle Berg was born on 2 June 1962 in Weimar, East Germany.

Sibylle Berg married in 2004, and has held Swiss citizenship since 2012.

On 25 September 2023 it was announced that Sibylle Berg will be competing in the election for the European Parliament in June 2024 for Die PARTEI.

In 2013, Sibylle Berg began working with Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, and their first play, Es sagt mir nichts, das sogenannte Draussen, was selected in 2014 as the play of the year by Theater heute.

Sibylle Berg's plays have been staged and aired in the United States, Britain, Italy, France, Spain, Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Hungary, Turkey, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Romania, and Bulgaria.

Sibylle Berg has written various contributions for Die Zeit, the Neue Zurcher Zeitung, and Die Presse, among others.

Sibylle Berg conducts a regular interview series for the Swiss online magazine Republik, entitled "Nerds Save The World", in which they speak to specialists from various disciplines.

Sibylle Berg has written songs to their own plays, as well as to other artists, like the lyrics for several songs by the Swiss singer Sina.

In 2011, the song "Ich Schwvara", written by Sibylle Berg and sang by Sina, was the song of the year and the most-played song at weddings in Switzerland.

Sibylle Berg wrote the text "Speed" for Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub.

In March 2013, Sibylle Berg co-directed, with Hasko Weber, Angst Reist Mit at the Stuttgart Theater.

In 2018, Sibylle Berg collaborated with Simone Meier, Hedwig Richter, Margarete Stokowski, and seven others to produce the list "Women You Need to Know", published in August by Spiegel Online and Watson.

Sibylle Berg has been teaching dramaturgy at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2013.