Vita

Sasha Marianna Salzmann

born in Volgograd in 1985
lived in Moscow until 1995
then here and there in Germany
and right now in Berlin

co-editor of cultural and social magazine freitext from 2002 to 2013

artistic director of Studio Я from 2013 to 2016

was writer in residence at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin until 2016

their plays are published by Verlag der Autoren

their novels are published by Suhrkamp Verlag

Portrait on German television, Tagesschau:
Watch the clip

Talking about Beside Myself on Swedish television:
www.svtplay.se

2023

Guest professor at the Arts School for Media, Cologne
The essay The Great Hunger and the Long Silence is shortlisted for WORTMELDUNGEN-Literaturpreis
Writer in residence at the Deutschen Haus at NYU, New York
Member of The Academy of Science and Literature, Mainz
Glorious People is staged at Staatstheater Nürnberg
Glorious People is staged at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
Glorious People is staged at Münchener Kammerspiele
Writer in residence at MuseumsQuartier, Wien
Curation of Utopia Eastern Europe together with Max Czollek
Tries to write a novel, don´t ask

2022

2021

2020

2019

Beside Myself international reading tour
Beside Myself on the Shortlist for Premio Strega Europeo
Beside Myself on the Shortlist for The Angelus Central European Literature Award
Laudatory speech for Nan Goldin (receiving Ruth Baumgarte Prize)
Poetics-Lecture at the University of Johannes-Gutenberg Mainz
Afterword for the new translation of James Baldwin´s Giovannis Room
Premiere of Meteoriten am Teatro El Grito in Buenos Aires
Directing Sivan Ben Yishai´s Or: You Deserve Your War (Eight Soldiers Moonsick) at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin – nominated for the Friedrich-Luft-Prize as the best staging of the year
Co-curation of Apropos Gegenwart at the Burgtheater Wien
Teaching playwrighting at the University of Arts Berlin

2018

Beside Myself: book tour of German-speaking countries
Artistic director of creative-writing workshop ‘War in Peace’ at Studio Я
Premiere of Beside Myself at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin
Mother Tongue Mameloschn awarded Nestroy Drama Prize for Best Fringe Production

2017

Premiere of Ich, ein Anfang (‘Me, a Start’) at the Schauspiel Frankfurt
Premiere of Eight Easy Steps to Understanding Jihadism at the Youth Theatre Basel and the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin
Artistic director of creative-writing workshop ‘War in Peace’ at the Literary Colloquium Berlin
Artistic director of the ‘Radical Jewish Culture Days’ at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin
Debut novel Beside Myself published by Suhrkamp Verlag

2016

Premiere of Meteorites at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin
Artistic director of the ‘Dis-integration Congress’ at Studio Я
Premiere of Die Aristokraten (‘The Aristocrats’) at the Schauspielhaus Hanover
Artistic director of creative-writing workshop ‘Shaped by Escape’ at Studio Я

2015

Premiere of Wir Zöpfe(‘Braided’) at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin
Premiere of Mother Tongue Mameloschnat Saarbrücken Theatre
Premiere of Weltrettungsauftrag(‘Mission to Save the World’) at the Mozarteum in Salzburg

2014

Founds New Institute for Writing for the Stage with Maxi Obexer and launches creative-writing workshop ‘Shaped by Escape’
Premiere ofMother Tongue Mameloschn at OST in Stuttgart
Premiere ofMother Tongue Mameloschn at the Kosmos Theatre in Bregenz

2013

Artistic director of the Gorki’s studio theatre, Studio Я
Mülheim Audience Award for Mother Tongue Mameloschn
Premiere of Schwimmen lernen(‘Learning to Swim’) at the Staatstheater in Heidelberg
Premiere of Schwimmen lernen (‘Learning to Swim’)at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin
Premiere of Kasimir andKaroline (freely adapted from Horváth) at the Staatstheater in Düsseldorf
Artistic director (together with Deniz Utlu) of creative-writing workshop on new German plays at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin

2012

Kleist Prize for Young Dramatists for Muttermale Fenster Blau (‘Birthmarks Windows Blue’)
Residency at Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul
Premiere of Beg your Pardonat Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin
Premiere of Muttermale Fenster Blau (‘Birthmarks Windows Blue’) at the Ruhr Festival in cooperation with the Badisches Staatstheater
Premiere of Rot werden (‘Turning Red’) in the Studio Theatre, University of the Arts, Berlin
Premiere of Mother Tongue Mameloschnat the Deutsches Theater Berlin
Production of WhiteBreadMusic at the Wallgraben Theatre in Freiburg

2011

Premiere of Satt (‘Fed Up’) at the Bavarian State Theatre in Munich
Premiere of Weltrettungsauftrag(‘Mission to Save the World’) at the Eisfabrik Hanover
Premiere of Tod eines Superhelden (‘Death of a Superhero’)at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse Berlin
Premiere of the short play Massensterben der Möglichkeiten (‘Mass Extinction of Possibilities’) at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
Production of Satt (‘Fed Up’) at the Casa Nova Theatre in Essen

2010

2009