Sasha Marianna Salzmann

Sasha Marianna Salzmann is a playwright, novelist, essayist, and the co-founder of freitext magazine. From 2013 to 2019, Salzmann was an in-house playwright at the Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin and headed its Studio Я. Together with Max Czollek, Salzmann initiated the Dis-Integration Congress (2017) and the Radikale Jüdische Kulturtage (2018). Salzmann is the author of the novels Außer sich (2017) and Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein (2021), among others, and has been honoured with the Art Prize for Performing Arts of the Berlin Academy of Arts, the Prize of the Houses of Literature, the Hermann Hesse Literature Prize and the Kleist Prize. Salzmann lives and works in Berlin.