Career
His plays for the Bernese Fasnacht is an important contemporary sources for Swiss historiography of the mid-16th century. Von Rüte is recorded as acquiring Bernese citizenship in 1528. His origin and earlier biography is unknown.
He has variously been identified as a native of Emmental, Solothurn, Aarau or Berne itself.
In 1531 he was elected into the city council. In 1545 he was found guilty of adultery and lost his office as scrivener, which he was granted again, however, in 1546.
In 1555 he was made bailiff at Zofingen, where he died in 1558.