Falk Richter is one of the most important German playwrights and directors of his generation. His plays have been translated into more than 25 languages and are produced all over the world. His plays include For the Disconnected Child, Rausch (written with Anouk van Dijk), Play Loud, My Secret Garden (written with Stanislas Nordey), Damaged Youth, State of Emergency, The Disturbance, Seven Seconds (In God We Trust), God Is A DJ. Apart from writing and directing his own plays, Richter has directed Shakespeare, Chekov, Schiller, Brecht, contemporary writers including Caryl Churchill, Harold Pinter, Martin Crimp, Sarah Kane and operas by Tchaikovsky, Strauss and Weber.