Sasha Marianna Salzmann (born in Volgograd, Soviet Union on 21 August
1985) is a German playwright, essayist, theatre curator and
novelist.[1][2] She is writer in residence at the Maxim Gorki Theatre
in Berlin where she was artistic director of the studio theatre,
Studio Я, from 2013 to 2015.[3][4][5]Salzmann grew up in Moscow until
1995, when she and her family emigrated to Germany as Jewish "Quota
refugees" ("Kontingentflüchtlinge"). She studied literature, drama
and media studies at the University of Hildesheim and creative writing
for the stage at the Berlin University of the Arts.Throughout her
studies in Hildesheim, she had poems and short stories published in
various magazines, and, together with Deniz Ultu, Mutlu Ergün,
Marcela Knapp and Mike Klesse, she founded the cultural and social
magazine freitext, where she was editor from 2002 to 2013.[6][7]
Alongside her studies, she also staged two plays with Wera Mahne: Ein
Attentat auf Godot (‘An Attempt on Godot’), a loose adaptation of
Beckett’s classic,[8][9] and Rot Werden (‘Turning Red’), a
sarcastic romantic monologue to Vladimir Putin.[10][11][12] In
collaboration with the music theatre collective forte blau, Salzmann
developed projects for the deaf, hard of hearing and hearing.[13] With
Grenzkollektiv, she created a parody of the Joan of Arc storyâ€"Jeanne
ist tot und kommt heute nicht mehr vorbei (‘Joan’s Dead and
Won’t be Coming Round Today’).[14]During her studies in Berlin,
Salzmann’s first full-length play Weißbrotmusik (Engl.: "white
bread music") won the Wiener Wortstaettenpreis 2009[15][16] and the
IKARUS Prize for Best Youth Play 2012.[17] In 2012, she was also
awarded the Kleist Prize for Young Dramatists for her play Muttermale
Fenster blau,[18] and in 2013, her graduation play Muttersprache
Mameloschn (Engl.: "mother tongue Mameloschn")[19] won the Mülheim
Audience Award for Play of the Year and was voted Best Play by theatre
critics.[20] In 2018, she was awarded the Nestroy Theatre Prize for
best off production for that same play.
1985) is a German playwright, essayist, theatre curator and
novelist.[1][2] She is writer in residence at the Maxim Gorki Theatre
in Berlin where she was artistic director of the studio theatre,
Studio Я, from 2013 to 2015.[3][4][5]Salzmann grew up in Moscow until
1995, when she and her family emigrated to Germany as Jewish "Quota
refugees" ("Kontingentflüchtlinge"). She studied literature, drama
and media studies at the University of Hildesheim and creative writing
for the stage at the Berlin University of the Arts.Throughout her
studies in Hildesheim, she had poems and short stories published in
various magazines, and, together with Deniz Ultu, Mutlu Ergün,
Marcela Knapp and Mike Klesse, she founded the cultural and social
magazine freitext, where she was editor from 2002 to 2013.[6][7]
Alongside her studies, she also staged two plays with Wera Mahne: Ein
Attentat auf Godot (‘An Attempt on Godot’), a loose adaptation of
Beckett’s classic,[8][9] and Rot Werden (‘Turning Red’), a
sarcastic romantic monologue to Vladimir Putin.[10][11][12] In
collaboration with the music theatre collective forte blau, Salzmann
developed projects for the deaf, hard of hearing and hearing.[13] With
Grenzkollektiv, she created a parody of the Joan of Arc storyâ€"Jeanne
ist tot und kommt heute nicht mehr vorbei (‘Joan’s Dead and
Won’t be Coming Round Today’).[14]During her studies in Berlin,
Salzmann’s first full-length play Weißbrotmusik (Engl.: "white
bread music") won the Wiener Wortstaettenpreis 2009[15][16] and the
IKARUS Prize for Best Youth Play 2012.[17] In 2012, she was also
awarded the Kleist Prize for Young Dramatists for her play Muttermale
Fenster blau,[18] and in 2013, her graduation play Muttersprache
Mameloschn (Engl.: "mother tongue Mameloschn")[19] won the Mülheim
Audience Award for Play of the Year and was voted Best Play by theatre
critics.[20] In 2018, she was awarded the Nestroy Theatre Prize for
best off production for that same play.
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