Rüdiger Bering (born 1961, Hanover) is German dramaturge, academic, and theatre historian.
After graduating in 1988 with a Master of Arts degree, he was employed by a variety of theatres in Berlin as a dramaturge.
[1] In 1991 Bering joined the faculty of the Berlin University of the Arts where he taught courses in theatre history and dramaturgy.
[2] He remained in that position until 2017 when he left to succeed Peter Carp as chief dramaturge at the Theater Freiburg.
[3] His 2017 translation of Alan Jay Lerner's libretto for Kurt Weill's Love Life was approved of by the Kurt Weil Foundation and was praised for successfully "striking a tone reminiscent of the great song and operetta lyricists of the German and Viennese interwar years, such as Marcellus Schiffer and Fritz Löhner-Beda".