After his studies of theatre and media science in Bochum (Germany) he worked as assistant and performance director at the Landestheater Linz, the Hannover State Opera and the Komische Oper Berlin. In Linz he directed among others the world premiere of the opera Picknick im Felde by Constantinos Stylianou. For his direction of the world premiere of the children’s opera Freunde! by Peter Androsch at the Junge Oper Hannover, he received the German Theatre Prize Der Faust. Ηe directed Francis Poulenc’s La voix humaine at the Cumberlandsche Galerie Hannover, moreover Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito and Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at the Hannover State Opera. Recently he directed the world premiere of Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten by Attila Kadri Sendil at the Komische Oper Berlin. Ribitzki has previously staged this production of Die Zauberflöte ("1927" / Kosky) in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Madrid, Helsinki, Warschau and Philadelphia.