Stefan Kaegi creates documentary theatre, audio interventions, and immersive formats, often collaborating with non-actors who have unique stories to tell. He co-founded Rimini Protokoll with Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel in the early 2000s.

His early projects include “Mnemopark,” a miniature world with model train enthusiasts, and “Cargo Sofia,” transforming a truck into a mobile audience space. In 2008, he created “Radio Muezzin” in Cairo about the call to prayer, followed by “Bodenprobe Kasachstan” in 2011 on migration and oil. With Lola Arias, he developed “Chácara Paraíso” and “Airport Kids” and co-curated the festival “Parallel Cities.”

Since 2014, he has adapted the immersive Audio Walk “Remote X” for various cities and toured the interactive installation “Nachlass.” In 2018, he created a humanoid robot clone of writer Thomas Melle for “Uncanny Valley” and staged “This is not an embassy” with diplomats. He has received multiple awards, including the Grand Prize of Bitef in 2018 and the Rome Prize in 2024/25.

With Rimini Protokoll, he redefines reality from unconventional perspectives, as seen in “Deutschland 2,” a reenactment of the German Parliament, and “Deadline,” exploring death in Central Europe. Notable works include “Call Cutta in a Box,” a live phone performance from an Indian call center, “100% City,” featuring 100 local citizens, and “Weltklimakonferenz,” a simulation of a UN climate conference.

The collective also creates museum works like “win < > win” at CCCB. Winner of the Faust Theatre Prize and the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale, Kaegi splits his time between Rome, Berlin, and Switzerland.