Ferdinand Kriwet (1942, Düsseldorf, Germany) is a German visual and audio artist who has produced films and sound works for radio and television, in particular throughout the 1960's and 1970's.

As a sound artist, Kriwet is more known for his Hörspiele (radioplays) serie named Hörtexte (radiotexts) produced for German public radio stations and composed with edited sound bites taken from mass media broadcasts.