René Pollesch (29 October 1962 – 26 February 2024) was a German author and dramatist.
[1] He won the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis in 2001 for world wide web-slums[2] and again in 2006 for Cappuccetto Rosso.
[3] In 2012 Pollesch organized an exhibition project at Galerie Buchholz, which culminated in a publication.
[4] He was named as the new director of Berlin's Volksbühne Theatre in 2019 and took up the role in 2021.
Pollesch died in Berlin on 26 February 2024, at the age of 61.