Close-up of a young man's face with short, dark hair, light skin, wearing a black shirt, and an earring in his left ear, against a light, neutral background. It is an actor mugshot of Rudi Grieser.

Rudi Grieser

Rudi Grieser is an artist, primarily working in the medium of theater, film and writing, without limiting himself to any form of materiality or artistic approach.

He was born in 1991 in Bergisch Gladbach and raised in Cologne, Germany. He studied acting at the Thomas Bernharnd Institute of the Mozarteum Salzburg from 2015 to 2018.
His theater work took him, among others, to the Theater Ulm, the Theater Luzern, aswell as to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus.

Since october 2026 Rudi Grieser works as a contractor for the US-based, critical media project Sublation Media.

© 2025, Hugo Tiedje

Projects

Black background with the word 'sehkrank' in white above a black-and-white image of a whales belly. It is a flyer for the play of the same name.

Directorial Work

Production Stills

Announcment text

The sailor dreams.
And overboard under the bow under the white flesh of the white belly of the white beast a boy sinks into the ocean.

His mouth a circle
His eyes a hole
The corals are specters
the sand is a maw

A young man stands in a dimly lit room surrounded by white fabric sheets and hanging nets, wearing waterproof boots, rabbit-like overalls, and a casual t-shirt, gazing thoughtfully into the distance. It is an image of Hugo Tiedje.

Der Seemann träumt.
Und über Bord unter dem Bug unter dem weissen Fleisch am weissen Bauch des weissen Tiers sinkt der Junge in den pulsierenden Ozean.

Sein Mund ein Kreis
Seine Augen ein Loch
Die Korallen sind Schemen
der Sand ist ein Schlund

“sehkrank” (seesick), was conceptualized as a "delusionplay” about the body and the nothing, after Herman Melvilles “Moby Dick” and drawing heavy influences from psychoanalytic theory.

Collectively created by Rudi Grieser, Hugo Tiedje, Jeannine Fischbacher and Rosanna Löw

Person pulling on a thick rope in a dark space, surrounded by ropes and hanging fabric, with a pained expression. It is an image of Hugo Tiedje.
A man with curly hair bulked up in a large, white, draped fabric structure on a dark stage, looking upward. It is an image of Hugo Tiedje.

Venue
Theater Luzern, Swiss

Year
Oct 27th 2023

© 2023, Franziska Kleinsorg

A person wearing green rubber boots, beige overalls, and a white protective suit stands among hanging white fabric and ropes in a dark environment. It is an image of Hugo Tiedje.

Directorial Work

Die Humanisten

Venue
E-Werk, Freiburg, Germany

Year
Oct 2023

Ingrid Israel, Manfred Böll, Gerd Heinz, Helmut Grieser and Rudi Grieser staged Ernst Jandls surrealist and absurdist play “Die Humanisten” (The Humanists) at the small stage of the E-Werk Freiburg.

The two figures, Professoren and Kunstlern (“artisten”), are read through the prism of aging, times changing and history continuing although it does not.

Two older men on a stage, one sitting with a cane and binoculars, the other leaning forward, both appearing to be engaged in a theatrical performance with a black background and minimal props.
Two men performing on stage, one sitting in a wheelchair with binoculars, and the other standing behind him, pointing and speaking.

Directorial Work

my heart is blinking like machines that die

Venue
Theater Ulm/Youtube

Year
July 1st 2021

Come, we go. We go away. Out of this time and into another one. We have too few words for too much world, but I hear an echo of the wind, of the tides, the gritting of gravel under our feet. We are almost there.

“my heart is blinking like machines that die” is a space-fairytale specifically written for the acting youth club of the year 2021, admist the crisis of the Corona pandemic and the curtailing of citizen rights by the government. Unable to reliably perform on stage, the decision was made to create a radio drama.

The drama follows a couple of childish testsubjects, thrown into an enviroment they can not comprehend. Birth and abandonment, softness and transformation were guiding themes.