Ludwig Wüst is an Austrian film director, scriptwriter and producer. Wüst grew up in Bavaria, Germany. He moved to Vienna, where he studied acting and singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts. He has worked as theater director in Frankfurt, Berlin, the Opera Leipzig and in Vienna at the Wiener Festwochen. In 1998 Wüst participated as an actor in the premiere of one of Hermann Nitsch's Orgien Mysterien Theater performances. Departure had its world premiere at the Berlinale.