Sylvia Rieger was born in Wolfratshausen in 1984. She studied stage and costume design with Johannes Leiacker at the HfbK Dresden from 2004 to 2010 as well as one year of free art, including one semester at the Ensba Paris – among others with Christian Boltanski. This was followed by assistantships at the Schaubühne Berlin, the Volksbühne Berlin and the Burgtheater Vienna. As a stage and costume designer she worked with directors such as Til Wyler (Akademietheater Munich), Heiko Kalmbach (Theaterhaus Jena) and Mario Keipert (Theaterhaus Jena, Die Bühne Dresden). She also participated as a costume designer in various arte short films. In the 2011/12 season she designed the stage for Wartopia, directed by Pedro Martins Beja (Theater Osnabrück) and at Ballhaus Naunynstraße together with Sophie du Vinage the stage and costume design for Perikızı (directed by Michael Ronen).